After studying Fine Art at Manchester Art School Nancy worked in several different design studios in London, initially working as an office assistant at Emma Bridgewater, her sister’s pottery company. She then assisted the textile designer Richard Smith, drawing up and colouring designs with him. After a couple of years she went on to work as a colour consultant and wallpaper designer with The Paint Library. At the same time she continued painting her own designs for textiles which she then began to make into collage pictures which led to commissions for the Cath Kidston London shops.

In 2008, needing more space to raise three children, Nancy moved with her family to a farmhouse an hour from London surrounded by open fields and big skies. Here she focused her creativity on transforming a somewhat unloved house and garden into a wonderful home which then led her back to her first love of painting.

Many Geranium paintings later, in 2021, with children now grown up, the family relocated to London where Nancy and her husband transformed another house and built a studio at the end of the garden. Nancy’s paintings, which include still life, landscape and portraits, all retain a freshness and clarity of her background in textiles and her love of the countryside.