Biography

Nancy is one of two women in the world to win Communication Arts Magazine - Award of Excellence in Photography in both 2013 and 2015. Nancy’s work has also been twice recognized in Creative Quarterly Magazine. Formerly, she had been listed in 2015 with Charleston’s Gibbes Museum of Art - Society 1858 as a Southern Artist whose work contributes to a new understanding of art in the South. 

Nancy calls herself a "friendly but disobedient fine-art photographer and writer who creates, curates, and cultivates traditional art as an expressive sword, a device, and a methodology to cobble together a frontier of beauty, hope, and enchantment."

She explains that she hopes to inspire more women to put more Art in their homes rather than mass produced decorations. She hopes more women begin to see art collecting as more fashionable than obtaining a high-end purse. Adding to Fine Art collections should be important wedding gifts, graduation gifts, and other meaningful milestones. Because, as she says, "I find the stories of art collectors are intrinsically part of the pieces they collect. It is the artists that tell all our stories. That makes art into a creatively forged kinship between artist and collector. So, in all my work, I hope people see my work as a mirror of their own fineness and value. It's really yours. I made it for you."

Influences

Andrew Wyeth, Edward Steichen, Toshi Otsuki, Joyce Tenneson, Gustave Doré

The artist at work