After a hiatus from art to raise a family, Nina Goodwin is returning to her first love, her true love of oil painting. Art has always been been Nina Goodwin's euphoria. Nina prefers to paint from real life in order to capture the reflective colors pf a still life or the atmosphere in plein air painting. Over time, she has settled into becoming a studio painter using various experiences and references to paint from.

Awarded am art scholarship, she graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma with a degree in visual Arts. Nina has attended Quartz Mountain Adult Institute in Lonewolf, Oklahoma, and expanded her studies through commercial art classes at Oklahoma State Tech in Okmulgee, Oklahoma.

Her work has been featured in several group shows in regional and local galleries, including Street Smarts Gallery in Oklahoma City, as well is festivals and museums and juried exhibitions. her oil painting have received recognition from SWA National Competition and Award of Excellence from a BAA Juried show.

She said, 'I like to refer to myself as an impressionistic realism painter - painting from my heart and using God's gift in capturing the beauty of his creation.