Nancy Reed Jones is an award winning artist living and working in the beautiful Hudson Valley. Nancy was trained at the Huntington Art League on Long Island where she lived most of her life.

In 1993, in South Nassau Communities Hospital on Long Island she did her first mural for the cancer patients. 

“I was allowed to paint directly on the walls in their rooms so they could see the scenes from their beds,”  she said. Later the murals were used for “guided imagery” to help alleviate some of the pain the patients were having.

After being featured on the Long Island television news station channel 12 and in the Long Island Newspaper Newsday,  people  began calling for mural work.  Nancy studied oil painting at the Huntington Art League and took drawing classes at the college near her home, to improve and expand her skills.  She worked for many years on Long Island as a muralist both in hospitals and in private homes. “One of my most beautiful murals was the one I did in the Vanderbilt Estate in Oakdale, Long Island”.

Nancy has developed “Art For Relaxation” classes to help people in recovery from addictions and serious illnesses.

Relaxation techniques such as soft music, flowing fountains and aroma therapy are used to help people relax and enjoy the process of learning to paint. Nancy now teaches at the Wallkill River School of Art where she was a member of the Board of Directors for several years. Nancy also works for the New York Cancer Foundation teaching relaxation classes for the cancer patients.

In 2013, Nancy was chosen to receive the “Champion Of The Arts” award from the Orange County Arts Council. She was also voted #1 acrylic artist in the region in 2010.

“I think, I love plein air painting  the best of all,”she wrote on her website.  “It makes me realize that through my art I can finally use the talent God has given me to record one of the most beautiful places, the Hudson Valley, that he has created.”