Nancy Harkins was born in Independence, Missouri and has lived in Oklahoma since the age of seven. She excelled in drawing and painting as a young child, and at sixteen was accepting portrait commissions from classmates and teachers. Watercolor soon became her favorite medium, and she has studied the medium for over thirty years independently and through workshops with such artists as the late Bill Harrison, Jim Hamil, the late Leo Smith and Sonya Terpening. In addition to mounting six one-woman shows, Nancy has shown her work at Tulsa’s Gilcrease Museum in conjunction with their “About Face” portrait exhibit and in their annual “American Art in Miniature” show. She also participates annually in Utica Square’s “Art in the Square” event and in the Mayfest Invitational Gallery, both held in Tulsa. Her work is included in private collections around the country and in several corporate collections.