BARBARA NECHIS AWS, NWS

Barbara Nechis, a native of New York State, has lived in the Napa Valley in Northern California since 1988. She holds a BA in History and Fine Arts from the University of Rochester and an MS from Alfred University. She was a faculty member of Parsons School of Design in NYC and has taught seminars at Pratt Institute and throughout North America, Europe and Asia.

She has served as a juror and board member of the American Watercolor Society and awards judge for more than 60 organizations including National Watercolor Society, Transparent Watercolor Society of America, Watercolor West and San Diego Watercolor Society. Invitational exhibitions include International Watermedia exhibitions in China, Thailand and India.

Her work appears in more than 40 books and publications and is included in numerous collections, among them the Butler Institute of American Art, IBM and Citicorp. She is the author of Watercolor from the Heart (Watson-Guptill Publications, 1993) and Watercolor the Creative Experience (North Light Books, 1979) is featured in three instructional DVDs and is listed in Who’s Who in American Art

Her work reflects the fundamentally abstract patterns she finds in nature to form an illusion capitalizing on the expressive qualities that watercolor possesses- its fluidity, transparency and mystique.