About

Nancy Hamlin-Vogler attended Wells College (B.A. in Modern Languages) and learned the screen printing process while earning her M.A. in French literature at the University of Maine. The seduction of obscure twentieth century authors gradually gave way to a curious captivation with making colorful, identical prints, including a series of fine art greeting cards. Spending a lively decade in Maine, she established Northern Kingdom Printworks in 1976, exhibited her serigraphs and drawings in Maine galleries, and created some of the first designs that have become the trademark of her card company.

 

Nancy left Maine and the USA in 1979 for a backpacking trip around the world; maintaining written and painted journals, collecting textiles, kitchen utensils, and gathering a wealth of experience to enrich life’s journey and fuel her creative resources. She returned two years later to settle in Colorado, start a family, and reestablish the hand silkscreened card business as Eastern Sun Printworks, a name that reflects her interest in the Orient.  1988, the family relocated from Colorado to St. Augustine, where Nancy set up her shop in a funky commercial space. Forty years later, her iconic images featuring suns, moons, and trees within colorful mindscapes, are collected by card aficionados. Her card designs have been nominated five times for the prestigious LOUIE FINALIST award. She has recently converted the cards to digital format in order to focus on mixed media art projects in her backyard studio near the Fountain of Youth. 

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​The artist has received numerous awards in outdoor Florida juried art festivals, as well as two Individual Art Ventures grants from the Community Foundation for Northeast Florida, (2006, 2020), all contributing to continued exploration in her painting, collage, and mixed medium practice. Her dedication to contemporary art is reflected in works on paper and canvas, exploring still life, figurative settings, landscape and seashore, always with an intuitive and gestural approach. ​The artist treats her subjects intriguingly, mixing her favorite materials – acrylics, oils, pastels, mark making implements, silkscreens and rice paper, recycled old work – leaving the viewer often hanging by a thread yet satisfied without a resolution. Her work occupies a space between realism and abstraction, offering a new perspective to the observer. 

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Nancy is active in the St. Augustine art scene: a founding member of a collective gallery, Butterfield Garage Art Gallery (est. 1999) , and an exhibiting member of the St. Augustine Art Association. She is represented by Arts on Douglas,  New Smyrna Beach, FL.  In 2025, her oil painting, Flamingo Yard Art and Still Life, was acquired by the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, WI.