Nancy Stevens

80 pages, full colour, 8.5 x 8.5 in.

ISBN 978-1-927054-51-2 C$30.00 2022

Nancy Stevens began her career studying with Arthur Lismer in Montreal and later at Mount Allison University with legendary artists Alex Colville, Lauren P. Harris, and Ted Pulford, where her classmates included Mary and Christopher Pratt, Tom Forrestall, and D.P. Brown. She is a versatile artist whose practice has moved seamlessly from realism to abstraction and back, remaining grounded in her conviction that drawing is the foundation of all artmaking. This book features samples of Stevens’s work from her watercolours, the Italian Liri Valley series, as well as abstracts and realism. 

 

Nancy Stevens includes an essay by Virgil Hammock, foreword by Tom Forrestall, CM, and an in-depth interview with the artist by St. Thomas University art students, in which she frankly discusses her technique, artistic philosophy, and the challenges for a female artist of her generation in balancing her artistic practice with her family responsibilities. 

“Stevens’s work has bridged the gulf between realism and abstract painting, enriching both genres with her transcendent use of tone, colour, and structure.” –Tom Forrestall