Oranjestad -- Artist Nancy Hernandez is scheduled to open a solo exhibition at the Renaissance Marketplace on October 5th, 2007. You might recall that she lived here with Dutch-born dive instructor husband, Ernst, before leaving to Argentina. While successfully growing roots there, in the remote region of Mendoza, she still misses her island immensely, she reports. And thus she comes back every year to update her local fans on her artistic progress and to show off her latest dazzling canvases.
In the past few years, Nancy had successful solo exhibitions at the Wyndham, now the Westin Aruba Resort; she also showed at the Renaissance Marketplace, on two separate occasions. Her past themes, scenes from Aruba below and above water, scenes from Argentina's wine country, and her Invisible Kids, were all well represented in the body of her work shown on Aruba. Her paintings are very colorful, and fuse abstract and expressionistic treatments of well-known and much loved subjects such as dolphins, dessert landscapes, quaint colonial architecture, birds, flowers, grape vines and Aruba’s California lighthouse.
In Argentina, the full-time artist is also a grape-grower by profession. Her country estate, her finca, makes its own wine, which is highly rated, a natural product without any preservative. The Argentinean economy is recovered, Nancy says and many Americans and Europeans have discovered that Southern part of the world which reminds many travelers of Europe. Nancy is inviting her friends to visit the exhibition, after October 5th, and taste some of her Argentinean wine.
Her friend Carina Molina, a budding local Aruban artist will also have three canvases on display at the exhibition, as a special guest-artist.
