About the Artist Naj 
About Naj
 The Artist Naj lives in Norfolk, UK. Her art work
has sold both nationally and internationally. Her ability to
reproduce or copy, together with her technical ability has meant
that she has had a wide range of custom art commissions over the
years. Commissions for portraits and animal portraits in artists
pastels have had the greatest demand, and Naj has some twenty years
experience in the field of portraiture. She has also had work as
diverse as sign writing commissions for hand painted and chalkboard
signs, canal folk art and caricatures!
Naj is a flexible, multi-skilled artist who enjoys an artistic
challenge and is prepared to try her hand at many things creative.
This has meant that, with the exception of portraits, she has not
specialised in any one area. Working mainly to commission, means
she owns very few pieces of her own artwork and therefore rarely
exhibits.
Why the name Naj? As much of her artwork was initialled Naj, Naj
became adopted as the artist name.
Artistic Education and Training
Following A level fine art, Naj attended a Foundation
Course in Art and Design in the eighties, where life drawing and
stone carving were her main passions. She then went on to pursue a
technical career, while at the same time continuing to produce
portrait and illustrative work. Her technical work involved
draughting plans and graphics work, much of which has been
published in various government documents. After stopping full-time
technical work in the nineties, she has continued to produce
portrait and illustrative work.
In the nineties Naj began barge ware (narrow boat) painting which
she learned from observing a practiced canal ware artist and
self-teaching from books. (Visit the Canal Folk
Art page to find out more.)
In 2005, Naj completed a basic HTML web page design course, which
she has built upon to bring you this web site. She has compiled a
list of links to useful web design
resources for like-minded enthusiasts. She also rambles on about web design issues in her blog, My Depictions. Naj won the Coxsoft Art Silver Surfer Friendly Award in 2007 for her web design work on this site, making Mydepictions - Original Art by Naj an award winning web site!
In
2005 Naj decided she would explore selling her artwork on the
internet, which has led to an involvement in the Artist Card
Editions and Originals (A.C.E.O.s) movement. A.C.E.O.s, known as
Artist Trading Cards (A.T.C.s) when traded between artists, are
miniature highly affordable works of art measuring 2.5 x 3.5
inches. For Naj, ACEOs have provided a way of selling promotional
samples of art to an international audience. Check out Naj's art
auctions to view
current ACEO art cards for sale or see examples of past ACEOs on the
art listings gallery page.
Naj won the January 2006 ACEO UK Theme Week competition (a monthly
competition held by the ACEO UK Ebay Group of artists) with her
ACEO "Ladybird at Rest". In May 2006 she was voted Brit Art Artist
of the Month, for her miniature tonal pastel work "Madonna and
Child, after Da Vinci" ACEO, shown on the gallery and commissions page. Naj also exhibited in the
Independent Artists 1st Annual International Show (see
below).
If
you are interested in commissioning an art work or if you have any
enquiries, please
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