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...e in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Shortly after she received a degree from the University of Colorado in 1986, Dancy pursued a career in faux finishing and mural painting after studying at the Day Studio in San Francisco. She went on to work for architects, designers, interior decorators and numerous private clients until the late 90’s. All the while she was taking as many plein air workshops and private classes as she could fit in. She took classes from John Encinias, Kim Mackey and Steve Elliot, and she attended the annual seminars by the prestigious Plein Air Painters of America. She has been influenced most notably by Jean Perry, Stan Sampson, and Kevin McPherson from that group. She also attended the Art Students League of Denver where she studied under Quang Ho and Doug Dawson. Her background in faux finishing has translated to her smaller paintings, in that she employs the layering of color and glazing in her paintings. While she is still as interested in painting grand vistas as she was when she was mural painting, the challenge is for her smaller work to have a more intimate feel than her large scale murals do. Her work has been exhibited and sold at a number of private shows in Colorado, including the Artists’ gallery of Steamboat, at the Kent Denver School, Pirate Gallery, the Art Depot in Steamboat Springs, the Center for Visual arts in Steamboat, and at art fairs sponsored by the Steamboat Springs Arts Council. Her work has been published in the Rocky Mountain News and Colorado Expressions Magazine , The Steamboat Pilot and Today and At Home Magazine. Her latest artistic adventure is the Artists’ Gallery of Steamboat, where she is the Exhibit Director and, along with 27 other talented artists, a co-owner. Dancy considers her two young sons to be her first true masterpieces, and her family the greatest reason to keep learning and striving as a painter. Her work can be seen at the Artists’ Gallery of Steamboat. or at steamboatgallery.com.