Zoe began her art career in a friend’s garage where she opened a tube of watercolor paint and her life changed forever. She took her experience with the North Carolina Council of the Arts when the family moved first to Germantown, then to Memphis, Tennessee. Finding no existing art community Zoe quickly met people equally passionate about art and a need for an art league. In her first year she put on the Germantown Festival with 16 exhibitors; today the event brings in hundreds. A year later, she founded the Germantown Art Association, now The Memphis/Germantown Art League, with a large membership and national show.
Working in her home studio daily, the literal world for Zoe is just a reference point. She uses it to observe light, shape and color. In her career as a watercolorist she quickly became an artist member of both state and national watercolor societies, with many awards to her credit. But a need to push a surface more than watercolor would allow found her moving into acrylics, collage and oils.
The move to more flexible mediums allows Zoe to work intuitively, purging the subconscious for imagery. Her shapes and use of color are molded from observation and redefined by the inner eye. Her painting process has a sense of channeling, or of “being in a state of lucid dreaming”. Zoe’s successful career with local galleries placed her work in corporate and private collections. She has served as a judge for local and state adult and children’s art shows, taught art and spent 5 years as a volunteer artist for Theatre Memphis.
Today, Zoe sells through her studio and her website in Memphis, Tennessee. Four of her mixed media collages have been licensed by John Richard for reproduction as giclees. They are sold by the company at www.johnrichard.com, and offered on Amazon and Houzz by nation wide furniture companies.
Zoe holds both undergraduate and graduate degrees in English/Secondary Education from the University of Pittsburgh. When not in her studio she can be found in her garden, on the golf course, or folk dancing, the other great passions in her life. She has written, but not published a book titled, My Garden Began With Art.
Zoe Nadel began her art career in a friend’s garage where she opened a tube of paint and her life changed forever.
Now residing in Memphis, Tennessee, she paints and teaches in her home studio. Her work includes collage, oils and acrylics.
Zoe shows locally at Fountain Art Gallery, and is in both private and corporate collections. Four of her mixed media collages have been licensed for reproduction and are distributed world wide.
For Zoe, the literal world is just a reference point to observe light, shape and color. Her painting process has a sense of channeling as she works intuitively, purging the subconscious for imagery.
Holding both undergraduate and graduate degrees in English from the University of Pittsburgh, Zoe has written but not published a book called, “My Garden Began with Art.”
Her other passions are golf, folk dancing and gardening.
