COLLABORATIVE WORK
Creating art is like a dialogue between the artist and canvas. Creating Collaborative Art adds the dimension of exchanging ideas with another person as the paint is added to the canvas….”What happens if you try this?....Can we take this in another direction?, etc.” Beginning with flowers (that are similar to many of the life forms on the ocean bottom) David and I started working on each others canvases, eventually sharing the concepts and ideas of new paintings and the back-and-forth of both of us working on the same canvas. The following is the result of this collaboration.
COLLABORATIVE WORK
For nearly a decade, David Gallup and I have shared an artistic practice built around experiences gathered both above and below the surface of the sea. What began as an occasional exchange of ideas gradually evolved into a body of work neither of us could have created alone.
Our paintings often begin with a shared experience—a dive, a landscape, an encounter, or simply time spent observing together. From there, each of us brings our own memories, perceptions, and artistic instincts to the canvas. As the work develops, observation gives way to interpretation, and the painting becomes a conversation between two ways of seeing.
What interests me most about collaboration is not the blending of styles, but the opportunity to explore how experience is remembered differently by each of us. The resulting paintings are rooted in direct observation, yet shaped equally by memory, emotion, and imagination. Through that process, the work often arrives somewhere neither artist anticipated at the outset.
Over the years, this collaboration has become an important part of my artistic life, expanding both the possibilities of the work and my understanding of the creative process itself.
COLLABORATIVE WORK
For nearly a decade, David Gallup and I have shared an artistic practice built around experiences gathered both above and below the surface of the sea. What began as an occasional exchange of ideas gradually evolved into a body of work neither of us could have created alone.
Our paintings often begin with a shared experience—a dive, a landscape, an encounter, or simply time spent observing together. From there, each of us brings our own memories, perceptions, and artistic instincts to the canvas. As the work develops, observation gives way to interpretation, and the painting becomes a conversation between two ways of seeing.
What interests me most about collaboration is not the blending of styles, but the opportunity to explore how experience is remembered differently by each of us. The resulting paintings are rooted in direct observation, yet shaped equally by memory, emotion, and imagination. Through that process, the work often arrives somewhere neither artist anticipated at the outset.
Over the years, this collaboration has become an important part of my artistic life, expanding both the possibilities of the work and my understanding of the creative process itself.
104th California Art Club Gold Medal Exhibition
Artists Nansi J. Bielanski and David C. Gallup at the California Art Club's Gold Medal Show March 28, 2015, standing in front of their award-winning painting "A Deeper Love".
Our painting "A Deeper Love" sold, and we were awarded the "American Art Collector" Award for Artistic Excellence.
