Portfolio of Works

Nancy’s great grandmother on her father’s side was a full-blooded Cherokee.

Nancy shared her father’s interest in Native American culture and has produced many portraits and scenery paintings many of which were inspired by the black and white photographs of Edward S. Curtis and others.

Nancy began painting seriously after graduating from high school in 1980. 

During this time, Nancy worked exclusively with watercolors. 

After meeting and studying with nationally renowned portrait artist Daniel Greene in 1985,Nancy began working in oils and pastels. 

Inspired by his bold use of color and large pastel paintings, she began the time consuming and complex task of hand-making over ten thousand pastels,some of which were sold as portrait sets to Mr. Greene’s students in New York.

It should be noted that Nancy accomplished much of her work while suffering with Multiple Sclerosis, a chronic condition that affects the central nervous system.  Nancy was featured in an article published in the Cincinnati Enquirer on November 24, 2004, for her artwork benefiting the local MS Center.   A few years ago her condition deteriorated to the point of near total disability – so much so that she could not even sign her own name.  She said that she would never be able to paint again.  After a long and continuing recovery process, Nancy did begin to paint again.  Her first attempt was this series of simple but bold still lifes.  They were displayed at Indigo Restaurant in Cincinnati, Ohio, during the Hyde Park Art Show in 2012.