Nancy Boyle has an extensive background in professional as well as personal art projects. The watercolors, usually done plein air, are inspired by a passion for the watercolor medium; an interest in the challenge of color and light in landscape as well as structure and patterns of still life.
As an illustrator, experience includes working for text book publishers (D.C. Heath); contract illustration for numerous clients including Tufts University Veterinary School (instructional materials), Electronic House magazine, Network World magazine; and many freelance design and illustration projects for small businesses.
As a graphic designer, she has a wide range of experience from working in marketing and advertising, to being a staff artist for a software development group.
Current projects include web design in WordPress for small business clients (www.millbrookcreative.com); a blog about New England Vineyards (www.thegrowingvine.com); as well as ongoing watercolor activities.
Storytelling, often with a cast of ‘anthropomorphic’ animal characters, has been of long interest.
This website covers mainly the watercolor and animal character illustration work. In some cases products or prints are available for online ordering through sites like Cafepress.
Thank you for visiting and your comments and questions are most welcome.
About the Animal Characters
Monsieur Lion, Madame Cochon and company are very real creatures inside the imagination of a long-time Bostonian and New Englander, Nancy Boyle. Maybe it was the result of growing up in strange and wonderful New England, wandering the twisty streets and cobblestone alleys of Boston with its fascinating cast of characters; exploring the fields, woods & beaches south of the city, and wandering the neighborhoods of home town Hyde Park. Also, for some mysterious reason, they have a French flair.
Nancy Boyle graduated from Massachusetts College of Art & Design, and comes from a family of artists and lawyers, which is a strange enough combination to inspire the characters in her stories.
The inspirations that started in Boston continued while living in Homer, Alaska: working in a log cabin hotel, tutoring children of a goat herder, cooking on a king crab boat, working as an artist, and generally observing and being amazed by the cast of characters who have left the ‘outside’ behind.
Now back in New England she lives a relatively normal life, painting, drawing, doing WordPress development and cooking for Monsieur Lion.
