Nancy Tankersley
Nancy Tankersley is an artist and teacher who paints mostly in oil. Initially a portraitist, she now moves fluidly between figures, landscape and still life.
MessageIn this painting, artist Nancy Tankersley was intrigued by the geometry of the western landscape and used it as an underlying framework for the image. Having spent much of her life living on the east coast, she still feels a strong pull from the West where she finds inspiration for many of her landscape paintings. “Perhaps it is in my DNA as my father’s family had been ranchers and farmers in Colorado and Wyoming, but during the depression my father’s branch ended up in the Los Angeles area where my Dad graduated high school. He joined the Navy, was sent East and married my Baltimore born mother. My older brother ended up on the western slope of Colorado and two of my children live in Austin, Texas so I am frequently able to visit this inspiring landscape.”
- Subject Matter: Landscape
- Collections: Studio Landscapes