Nancy Vinzant Lamay

Nancy Vinzant LaMay currently lives in Idaho. The name Vinzant is her maiden name and the artists which have inspired her during her journey with painting have been Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh. Her family thought it sounded like her style “Vinzant LaMay”, and so her dream began.

When I have an opportunity to visit family and friends in Long Beach, Huntington Beach, or Newport Beach, I seize the moment. Besides loving the Snake River Plain, I love my hometown, Newport Beach;since I am a native from California.
I love to create artwork with thick impasto paint, it is like sculpturing, moving the paint around on the surface to form the composition I desire. Studio painting is great when the weather elements are cold and windy; however, when the weather warms up, Plein Air is where I receive my inspiration, from Nature. We are shape finders, I love to paint in my head, those memories evoke the desire to paint.
My favorite motto is "Carpe Diem' Seize the moment!
I can trace the artistic incentive in my early childhood, when my grandma would get her oils out and mix them on ceramic tiles with tubes of dry pigments. After my grandma died, I decided to follow my dream…. Picking up paint with a brush or palette knife and crea...

I studied art at Orange County College and Idaho State University, however, I believe I have learned the most from reading and application. I have been influenced by classical, traditional, and modern art. When I have walked away from week long workshops such as Ovanes Berbarian, Jeff Horne, and Robert Moore , I felt like I was walking away with buckets of knowledge. The truth for me is, I want to learn more and more, and forever learning, reading, and observing. " A shape finder"!

Driggs Art Gallery, Idaho
One Woman Exhibit IFAC "Heavenly Spaces"
One Woman "Quest Paradise"Fairmont -Newport Beach
One Woman " Poppies for Betsy" Dana Point, CA
Balboa Gallery Exhibit with Edgar Payne's paintings
Jackson Hole , Wy Art Sidewalk Show
Idaho Paints Idaho
Poster Award Idaho Falls Art Sidewalk Show