Mixed media artist Nita Shapiro feels more connected to the art she’s making now, and more fulfilled by it, than any she has made before. Using reclaimed pieces of dune fence and other scraps of wood such as beadboard and shiplap as her canvas, she paints beach scenes, building up texture and three-dimensional elements with objects found in nature.
GOOD FENCES: Artist Nita Shapiro paints beach scenes on reclaimed dune fencing and more. (Photo by Victoria Ford)
“I do it for the process,” the hands-on part, she explained. She would spend endless hours busy in her home studio if she could.
Inspiration comes from everywhere, all the time, she said. “Everything I see.
“It’s annoying,” she joked, meaning inspiration is hard to ignore or shut off.
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