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Christ-Centered Art
would like to provide you
the opportunity for to
get to know our artists
through art trivia.
Currently we have the
following trivia available
for Nita Engle.
Who are Nita's favorite
authors?
Virginia Woolf, Frank
O'Hara, and Janet
Evanovich
What is Nita's favorite
music or song?
Contemporary: Angel
by Sarah McLachlan;
Classical: Mozart's
chamber music
What is Nita's favorite
movie?
Many classics, including
On the Waterfront
Current: M.I.2
What is Nita's favorite
pastime?
Canoeing, outdoor
sports, and gardening
What is Nita's favorite
food?
Lobster shore dinner
and Indonesian sauté,
among others.
What is Nita's
nickname?
Nita says the various
corruptions of her name
have ranged from "Niota"
to "Nitey."
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Nita Engle, one of America's foremost
watercolor artists, has painted landscapes
from Alaska to her home on the shores of
Lake Superior in northern Michigan. Engle
exclusively paints outdoor scenes and paints
nothing she has not personally experienced.
She finds endless fascination and challenge
in the infinite complexity and mystery of
nature.
Nita attended Northern Michigan and
Roosevelt Universities and the Art Institute
of Chicago. Engle was also a professionally
trained commercial artist and illustrator,
working nine years as art director for a
national advertising firm. Engle feels that
she trained herself, however, to paint in
watercolors — simply by doing,
experimenting, and often by breaking the
rules. Nita's years of experimentation have
led her to mixing her own distinctive blend
of colors and to finding unusual but useful
tools, such as water filled spray bottles.
Engle is an award-winning, long-time
member of the American Watercolor Society.
She spends much of her year on the road,
conducting workshops, teaching, and
gathering subject matter. She exhibits
extensively and is represented in collections
in the United States and in Great Britain.
Perhaps millions of people have seen her
artwork on the covers of such well known
magazines as Reader's Digest. Engle's
atmospheric watercolors — her illusions of
reality — emerge from her inventive
experimentation with her medium.
Nita creates gorgeous landscapes, and her
limited edition prints have been published by
Mill Pond Press since 1981. Her art is the
subject of the book: How to Make a
Watercolor Paint Itself from Watson-
Guptill Publications. She can also be seen in
the video: Wilderness Palette: Nita Engle
in Michigan.
Nita Engle was named an Art Master by
American Artist magazine. Other honors
include being inducted into the Hall of Fame
by U.S. Art magazine and being invited to
participate in the 1996 Great Women Artist
of America Show.
Nita Engle writes, "There is so little
wilderness left; we are surrounded by
pavement. My goal is to take you into the
landscape through my painting. I want you
to actually be there, although briefly, to be
as fully engaged and engrossed in the
painting as you might be in a book, far
away in a different land. I want to make a
space where there is freedom for the mind
to wander."
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