Nancy’s Inspiration for Landscape Paintings
“You cannot live in Montana without having breathless moments of awe every day. The skies are endless inspiration for color, clouds, thunder, rain and brilliant azure days. I take many photos and try to paint plein air in oil for that very reason. Last winter I was outside doing some snow paintings after the day warmed up following a new snowfall. The shadows cast by trees and gullies were so very blue, I questioned what I was seeing!
When the canola fields are in bloom, a great swath of cadmium yellow serves as the foreground, with a backdrop of the distant Rocky Mountains and a cobalt blue sky. It is a simple and elegant landscape waiting to be painted.
I do quite a few tree paintings on silk, having recently completed a large commissioned rainbow eucalyptus piece, more than 6 feet tall. Other favorites are the aspen and river birch in the autumn, my favorite time of year. The tall cottonwood trees seem to have their own agenda, and when they cast their shadows across a white farmhouse I HAVE to try to capture that.
I have painted commissions of homesteads in eastern Montana and Canada where families grew up and no longer live. When visiting the Isle d’Aix off the western coast of France, I photographed French school children in their colorful nautical stripes building sandcastles along the beach – those paintings are in my future! One family of French extraction in Louisiana commissioned some lavender fields and farmhouses for their bedroom. I gladly took that on.”

Winter Chores

The Lightness of Being
$18,000
Big Mountain Magic
$4,000
Valley Wetlands
$850
Into the Woods
$1,500
Next Gen
$16,500
A Day in the Desert
$2,300
Mount Whitney, California
$5,000
Beautiful St. Mary Lake

Moraine Lake, Alberta
$125
St. Mary Lake
$650
Snow Cap St. Nicholas
$5,150
Moonlit Grand Teton Traverse
$5,150
The Calm at Waterton
$325
Night Rider
$1,900
The Lightness Of Being By Moonlight
$4,500
On The Buffalo Ground
$2,900
Going Home Is Such A Ride
$1,900
Bridget of the Island
$2,400
Trail to Hidden Lake
$2,450
Riders Before a Storm
$4,500
Passing it On
$12,500
Big Sky Country
$500
Hundred Acre Wood
$6,000
Reynolds Creek Runoff
$1,750
Two Medicine Moon
$1,000
Cool Runnings: Glacier Park
$2,500
Red Osier Creek
$7,250
Mountain Time
$10,000
December Moon
$1,500
Apres Monet
$1,250
Lake McDonald
$1,250
Near Fish Creek Rocks
$1,750
Secret Garden
$650