About Peter A (PA) Nisbet

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P A Nisbet
  • Biography

    INTERVIEW WITH PETER A NISBET (1994)
    Copyright by Jessie Benton Evans

    Jessie Benton Evans: What led you to art?

    Peter A. Nisbet: My mother, an artist in North Carolina, taught me the fundamentals of painting when I was old enough to hold a brush. I took courses at the Corcoran Museum and other lessons privately. In 1980, I came to Scottsdale. I paint landscapes and skyscapes, "atmospherics," almost vapor paintings, which express my personal mythology that nature is mysterious and miraculous. A fellow artist and I have chased storms all over the Southwest and Mexico. Then, last year, I went to the Art Students League in New York to study with Frank Mason, one of the last great knowledgeable teachers of past paint tr...

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