Although known primarily for her paintings of the American Southwest - a land she has loved & explored since childhood, Nana is also compelled to paint the dramatic beauty surrounding her in the Pacific Northwest and has created an extensive body of work featuring the region's extraordinary arbutus trees.
Nana worked in the arts for over twenty years before beginning to paint with acrylics in 1997. She chose acrylics as the quick drying medium makes an ideal choice for her spontaneous plein air painting while she travels the Southwest - by foot, car or Harley & it also suits her purposeful studio work.
Nana paints the moments that etch their mark on her being and infuses her paintings with dramatic colour, exciting perspective, humour, spirituality and thought provoking subjects.
Nana's first exhibit was with her mother, Southwest artist Charlotte Madison. The show held in 2003, was titled, "Women on the Loose - An Exhibit of Southwest Art", in reference to their annual, mother & daughter painting trips to Arizona, New Mexico and beyond. In the years since her first exhibit Nana has shown her paintings in numerous exhibits in Canada, the United States and China.
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