A bit about me: My name is Nancy Solman. I currently live in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. I have been drawing, painting and sewing most of my life. I have only recently made any serious effort to display or sell my creations and am now placing my work in front of the public eye. In addition to painting in acrylics, I also work with watercolour, pencil, pen and collage. My professional training is, in fact, Interior Design, but over the past 25 years much of my creative resources have gone into set design and scenic art (where I have painted drops 60' x 22'). I am now enjoying creating small paintings and drawings. Most of the pieces depicted here are fairly small: 10″ x 12″ up to a max of 40″ x 30″. The site features a series of paintings of Fairies in urban settings, a series of landscapes (most of which are Canadian) and most recently I have been working on a series which is more metaphysical in nature. The Fairie series is based on a request from my son-in-law to create an Urban fairie painting and it simply snowballed from there. I went on to paint more and more and found myself looking at and taking pictures of anything that would lend itself to having a fairie settled onto it. I have many more ideas for the series. I am also working on a personal challenge to loosening up from the insane details that the fairie paintings require of me. I will return to that level of detail when painting the fairies (because of the nature of the wee creatures) but I can afford to loosen up when painting landscapes. I intend to explore abstract painting in the near future, as well. In addition to paintings, I currently have individually designed and handcrafted kitchen witches available for sale. They can be custom ordered with the variables of hair colour, with or without apron and with or without hat. I am in the process of designing Fairie dolls, which I hope to have available soon. To purchase any of the pieces of art, place an order or ask any questions, I can be contacted at nancy@urbanfairie.ca