Nancy Orcutt

Nancy Orcutt’s response to landscape, as she describes, is to “simplify its form and intensify its color” so that she “moves the landscape around and rearranges it like a still life.” Her small oil paintings on masonite began as she sketched, with fat black pens, the beautiful landscapes of eastern North Carolina, where pine, dune, and countryside have provided her with new shapes and color.

Born in Auburn, New York, in 1942, a young Nancy took classes at the Everson Museum, in Syracuse. Encouraged to study something “practical” after the death of her parents, she majored in English and took art classes as electives. She married her high school sweetheart and raised three sons before returning to her art.

Nancy Orcutt now makes her home in Sarasota, Florida.