Nancy grew up on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and has chosen to live and paint in this rural area. Lying between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, the area continually provides material for her representational watercolor and acrylic paintings. After studying art at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, Nancy earned a Bachelor’s Degree in education at Salisbury University and has taught in both public and private schools for many years. In 1992 she won the Outstanding Arts Educator Award from the Maryland Alliance for Arts Education. She has studied with nationally known artists Charles Reid, Betsy Dillard Stroud, Jean Grastorf and Nicholas Simmons and since 2003 has painted full time.

Nancy is a signature member of the Baltimore Watercolor Society, a founding member of the Artists’ Co-op, a member of the Wicomico Arts Council and a member of the Rehoboth Art League. She has had many solo and group shows both locally and regionally. She has won numerous awards and has had her work juried into many local and regional shows including the 2006 and 2009 Baltimore Watercolor Society Mid-Atlantic Regional Watercolor Exhibition at Strathmore Hall, the Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art, the Academy Art Museum and the Oxford Fine Arts Fair. Nancy won the Ed Langley Memorial Award at the 2009 Baltimore Watercolor Society Mid-Atlantic Regional Watercolor Exhibition. Her work has been shown at the Touchstone Gallery in Washington, D.C. and is currently on display at The Gallery, Salisbury, MD; Bishop’s Stock, Snow Hill, MD; Water’s Edge Gallery, Berlin, MD; The Foundry, Denton, MD; and the Secret Garden Gallery, Ocracoke, NC.