Artwork copyright Nancy Halbrooks. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Multiple Halos, 1991

Nancy Halbrooks
American (born 1953)

Location: Midway Elementary School, Des Moines

About the Artwork

Multiple Halos is a drawing by artist Nancy Halbrooks. It is part of her ‘Absent Angels’ series of abstract pastel and charcoal drawings. She used a process of layering and wiping away areas of color and shadow to create the images in this series. She notes, “The drawings are of light and air. This piece focuses on the halo symbol. The halos were created through the use of stencils, and iridescent pastels, repeated and rubbed, erased over each other creating the layers of floating halos.”

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Highline School District.

About the Artist

Ohio-based artist Nancy Halbrooks creates figurative and abstract oil paintings, drawings, and prints. Many of her artworks feature imagery of birds and explore themes of endurance, adaptation, and community. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Indiana University and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1977. She lived in Seattle for 22 years during the 1980s and 90s.