Artist's Bio

Hetty and Norman Metzger, wife and husband, live in the nature coast area of Florida after having spent most of their lives in rural central Pennsylvania.

Hetty’s endeavors in the artistic world have been ongoing since the birth of a second son brought about the choice of remaining at home to raise a family. Not a person of idle hands, she did so while actively engaging in artistic pursuits. Hetty’s work with acrylics and inks was very straightforward; traditional in nature and conceptually centered on the positive values common to the area in which she lived. When her satisfaction and creativity began to wane, a change in medium to paper resonated strongly with her interests and restored her need for artistic integrity.

Hetty is not an academically trained artist. Her inspiration for art began as a child with a treasured box of Crayola crayons. Her training has been life long, fostered by a strong work ethic and focused on achievement. She has an innate ability to create in her work an aesthetic to which others are attracted.

Like Hetty, Norman has no academic training in the arts but unlike Hetty, his creativity is a recent discovery; an accidental artist as such. Unknowingly, perhaps, his artistic underpinnings began in the years in which he contributed to the finished product of his wife’s work by assisting with matting and framing; progressing ever so slightly with the creation of uniquely different mats for which there was no art to fill and beginning to bloom with the contribution of concepts for Hetty to ponder in her work.

Through the co-adoption of Hetty’s medium and with ample discretionary time after retirement from a lengthy career in human services, Norman embarked on a major art project, which ended with a new career in full bloom.

Our current work is a collaboration of who we are, whom we’ve been with an ever-present eye to where we are going. We are pleased that the journey has enabled us to create art that has been appreciated by the public and recognized by our peers.