Nancy-Lynn Stoller
BIOGRAPHY
Nancy-Lynn Stoller’s paintings focus primarily on the concept of nostalgia and its role in our connection with our past and community history. This Canadian artist has a personal passion for using watercolours to bring to life old black and white photos. Her artwork, originally inspired by the 1950’s and that era’s design aesthetic, is a careful yet whimsical realization of strangely familiar architectural scenes.
Stoller’s work explores the idea of nostalgia as a fragile past inhabited by elusive subjects, memories and our disappearing history. Her work has been described as “oscillating between metaphors of a forgotten time and mischievously between our memories of childhood and our adult perception of that time and place. Nancy-Lynn brings this forgotten era to life.”
Stoller combines a fine art graphic style with architectural skills to provide detailed intrinsic rendering in all her works. Painting watercolours as if they were oils, Stoller develops bold, bright and vibrant paintings that are remarkably different and ambitious from traditional watercolours. These very controlled and detailed works can take up to 150 hours to complete a single piece. It is this skill and determination that makes these pieces resonate with vivid clarity.
Nancy-Lynn has a fine art education from universities Ottawa and Western Ontario as well as a degree in Interior and Environmental Design from the University of Los Angeles California.
Nancy-Lynn had a successful career as a commercial interior designer for 27 years. She also provides professional services as a canine behaviour consultant for over 25 years. Her resume also includes working in the film industry for set design and 2nd assistant directing credits.