About Nancee

My transformation from thinking of myself as “artistic” to thinking I might be an “artist” started with quilts.

I love quilts. When I lived in central Illinois, I regularly visited the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, KY, to ooh and aah. Yet I never had any desire to sew a quilt. Never.

Fast forward to 2016 when I visited a quilt exhibit in Austin, TX, where I now live. As I wandered through the cavernous event center, I wondered, “Can I duplicate this beauty in paper instead of fabric?” Quest on!

There were many early failures – mostly because my medium of comfort was chalk pastel. Then a dear friend introduced me to alcohol inks – extremely vibrant, dye-based pigments. And the rest, as they say, is history. (History with tremendous encouragement from family and friends.)

I still think of my artwork, which is all paper based, as “quilts” – composed mostly of handmade and cut “fabric” (alcohol-inked Yupo paper) and anything that sparkles. But I now call my pieces “collages” to avoid confusion.