Meet WSA Artist of the Month – April… Nina Jordan
Nina was born in Zurich, Switzerland where she developed a love of art and culture from an earlier time. At the age of eighteen, she studied Art, as well as French and Russian in Geneva. After school she married and moved to Framingham, MA to begin a family. She and her husband still live in their first home where they raised six children together.
Nina has always focused on portraiture, landscapes and still life and admires the work of the Impressionists. Throughout her adult life, Nina has always painted, drawn and crafted. With her children, she created classical papier mache puppets which now adorn a glass case in her home. She has studied drawing, painting and pastels at the Danforth Museum School, the Boston Museum School and Framingham State College. She has been active in community artist groups and displays her work whenever possible.
Nina has won many awards for her portraits and landscapes of iconic Boston and MetroWest scenes. Most treasured are portraits of all of her family members. She painted one of her daughters in the style of the Mona Lisa. She has painted her five girls, her son and her grandchildren. She adds whimsical outdoor backgrounds to her lustrous and radiant faces. Nina is able to sensitively portray all ages and displays a deeply touching pastel portrait of her elderly mother in her studio.
Nina now works on commission creating family and individual portraits. She is especially fond of the portrait she painted of her own family which now hangs in their sun-lit family room. “It reminds me of old family portraits that hang in museums,” she says and hopes that this family heirloom will have a similar longevity.
Currently Nina keeps busy with several artist societies and portrait groups in Natick, Framingham and Wayland. Nina loves that her art work allows her to “forget the outside world” for a while and believes art is therapy…“art therapy it’s called.”