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Nancy Szostak Wright
ARTIST STATEMENT: No matter where, or how calm, angry, or salty the ocean is, it moves me. It’s not just my body that’s moving. It’s my heart racing, my pulse accelerating, my mind in constant motion, sifting through a slideshow of memories. Bodysurfing the waves. Exploring the black rocks jutting into the vast enormity of the ocean. Combing for treasures. Oohing and aahing at the sunsets. A Moving Experience captures nature’s beauty as it stumbles into a quiet cacophony of chaos and texture. In my exploration of Intentional Camera Movement (ICM), I found new ways to showcase the intersections of color and form. All of the elements in my compositions take on new roles. The marshy grass becomes the anchor. The sky melts into the water. The water recedes to the background. The grasses flow in shapes and directions that they never knew they could. Defined objects become abstract blends. The resulting images magically shapeshift the colors… different shades unpredictably crash smoothly into each other. The sky becomes the clouds become the tide pools become the marsh becomes the grass. The fluid transitions pocked with scratchy lines quietly scream for attention. It hits me! This is just like my life right now. Transitions with unpredictable lines, scratching for attention. Change. I hear you. I see you. I feel you. What a moving experience!
BIO: Nancy’s keen eye for detail began during her 22-year career as a writer/eagle-eye proofreader. Then, after 13 years of volunteering, in 2019 she traded the mighty pen for the beastly lens, pointed toward nature, wildlife, and abstract musings. What comes naturally to Nancy is seeing and celebrating the details that Mother Nature meticulously puts in her path… details that go unnoticed by incurious minds. Her photos quickly earned local, regional, and national recognition, highlighted by a first-place finish in the National Wildlife Federation photo contest for her portfolio of 10 bee images, rising above almost 400 portfolio entries. In 2025, she received numerous honors from the New England Camera Club Council and one of her photos was selected among the best of the year. This year, her heart is focused on banning the rodenticides (SGARs) that are killing the very wildlife that she makes the center of attention in many of her images. What inspires Nancy the most is connecting people with the colors, shapes, textures, patterns, and drama of nature and the everyday world around us. She loves to navigate swamps, woods, and waterways to create beautiful images, learn more about what she has captured, then share it all with nature lovers and art collectors.
Nancy’s work has been selected for permanent collections such as Juniper Rag’s Artists Touched by Addiction and a commissioned series of prints at UMass Memorial Medical Group in Auburn. Her work is also featured in various exhibitions through local art organizations, as well as private collections. (image, right)
