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Nancy King Schofield

 

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Nancy
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King Schofield
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Grand Barachois
 

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Nancy King Schofield was a musical prodigy—singing publicly by the age of five. This talent, nurtured through twelve years of classical training, resulted in years of competitive and public performance and professional recording.

Then in 1986, at the age of 46, King Schofield enrolled in Mount Allison’s BFA program where she graduated with distinction in 1991, majoring in painting and printmaking. Since then, she has pursued life as an artist, and in the process, emerged as a major figure on the Canadian scene.

Schofield finds inspiration for her visual art from objects she collects and the deconstruction of wood. In order to limit distractions, she built a studio in the rural area of Grand Barachois in 1998 that became known as the “Breach House” and eventually became the meeting place each month for the “Breach House Gang” that she founded in 1999.

A past board member of Imago Print Shop and founding member of Galerie 12 (both located in the Aberdeen Cultural Centre where her first studio was located) she also participated on the board of the Struts Gallery. (Sackville). She has been a constant contributor of energy, ideas and artwork to raise money for art related causes

As her reputation has grown, she has earned a place in over a hundred art exhibitions, and in the permanent collections of both public and private galleries.

At the urging of a friend and mentor, she began writing more seriously in 1997 and since has displayed a growing commitment to the New Brunswick writing community. In 2017, Schofield gathered a group of women writers and started her second group that she calls “Women Who Write” . Both groups compose twenty-one writers and meet monthly at the “Breach House.”

The overwhelming acceptance of King Schofield’s work during a career that extends from her youth, confirms for her a significant place in New Brunswick’s art community. Her poetry has been published in various anthologies and read at many public events. Her artwork has been included or forms the cover for several published books of writing.
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