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Nancy Clearwater Herman, Artist and Blogger

A local artist paints "Postcards from Merion" and maintains a blog to share them.

Nancy Clearwater Herman is an artist and, as of January 2010, a daily blogger.  Her blog, a treasure trove of paintings called Postcards from Merion, is filled with images of the surrounding area.  In a statement on the website Ms. Herman says “I try to capture … things … that give me joy.”   She has clearly done that.  Her blog allows her to share that beauty with the rest of us.

An artist most of her life, with work in the Philadelphia Museum of Art as well as over 100 public and private collections, Ms. Herman took on the blogging project at the beginning of last year.  On each of the nearly 500 days since then she has created a new painting.  She then posts an image of that painting to her blog along with a brief description.  Many of the images are of recognizable places in Lower Merion township.  She says setting up and getting started with the blog was very easy.  Keeping up with the daily paintings is not.

A resident of Merion for over forty years, Ms. Herman was born in Reading, PA.  She studied at Cornell University and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.  She is the mother of four and grandmother of seven.

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The daily give-and-take of the blog provides a channel for her to communicate with those who appreciate her art.  She enjoys the process of writing about the art each day and receiving feedback on her paintings.  “I don't have to wait to have a show [or] depend on a third party,” she says of the experience.  The commitment to her audience helps her complete the paintings on those days when she isn’t inspired.

Visit her blog or web site (http://www.nancyherman.com), if for no other reason than to see how beautiful Lower Merion is, at least from one person’s perspective.  Who knows, perhaps you’ll buy a painting.

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