{"id":148,"date":"2024-04-12T23:20:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T23:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xeno-optic.com\/?page_id=148"},"modified":"2024-04-12T23:20:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T23:20:37","slug":"nancy-stevens","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/xeno-optic.com\/index.php\/nancy-stevens\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Stevens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-146 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/xeno-optic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/N.StevensBookCover3-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xeno-optic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/N.StevensBookCover3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/xeno-optic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/N.StevensBookCover3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/xeno-optic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/N.StevensBookCover3-570x570.jpg 570w, https:\/\/xeno-optic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/N.StevensBookCover3-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/xeno-optic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/N.StevensBookCover3.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nancy Stevens <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>80 pages, full colour, 8.5 x 8.5 in.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ISBN 978-1-927054-51-2 C$30.00 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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\u2019s work from her watercolours, the Italian <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Liri Valley<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> series, as well as abstracts and realism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nancy Stevens<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cStevens\u2019s work has bridged the gulf between realism and abstract painting, enriching both genres with her transcendent use of tone, colour, and structure.\u201d \u2013Tom Forrestall<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/xeno-optic.com\/index.php\/nancy-stevens\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-148","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xeno-optic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xeno-optic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xeno-optic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xeno-optic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xeno-optic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/xeno-optic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/xeno-optic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xeno-optic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}