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Nancy Crow

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As with everything she does, Nancy Crow has done an intensive,comprehensive and excellent job with her recently released book.
She shares her thoughts,struggles,ideas,creative process, influences,living and working environments and her powerful abstract art quilts.
The many four page fold outs allow the viewer to see in large scale her art quilts and design details and notes from her Sketchbooks, not normally done by many artists of her renown.
The full color image quality and the comprehensive text allow the reader to feel as if they are sitting in her studio having a discussion with Nancy.
A visual feast of powerful colors and designs as well as detailed text on her work and her processes makes this book a valuable resource for artists in all media, art collectors, gallery owners and museum and college libraries.

Wow! Visually this book is overwhelming with its gorgeous photographs of Nancy Crow's series of quilts to date. The evolution of her work is fascinating to read and she almost answers 'how does she do it?' You'll follow her thought processes as she leaves one of her original and successful series and proceeds to a totally different style. You'll learn how some of these compositions have been strongly influenced by what is happening around, or to, her life and how she allows these experiences to take her further in her art explorations.
The book does not detail the dimensions of her busy life which includes teaching classes around the world, speaking engagements, leading two art tours a year to international destinations, nurturing her home, family, and farm, and designing unique fabrics. Here is a person who lives her art.
A highly recommended book which will change your idea of the word "quilt.".

Nancy's committment to excellence and passion for her art shines through in this glorious book detailing her recent work. A visual treat for all. Clearly a book to savor.

This book gives the reader the rare opportunity to have access to the life of a living artist whose experiences would otherwise never be exposed. Rarely is one offered such a revealing and unassuming entree into the life of a Master. Nancy freely offers her thoughts and speaks of her personal processes to look deep within herself for her continually evolving work. She invites us into her world and we are honored to be the along for the journey.

This book not only chronicles the author's successful career in art quilt production, it is also a comprehensive and honest visual and verbal diary of all that makes artists who they are.

Nancy Crow's devotion to her art is plainly seen in this book. As an artist/teacher she has provided us with a book that could easily be regarded as a textbook or reference source for anyone with artistic and aesthetic aspirations. She gives us the opportunity to read her personal art diary notes; she shares thoughts on experiences that have had lasting influences on her work, --and ahe does so with no excuses.

The author gives continous credit to persons, places and experiences that have contributed to her development as a world-known quilt artist.

And, the book is beautiful evidence of Ms. Crow's attention to detail. It is stunningly illustrated with top-quality photos in a layout that is both inviting and purpose-oriented.

If you are an artist, and particularly if you are an art quilter or aspire to become one, I guarantee that the images and text in this book will inspire and guide you. In the art quilt world, Nancy Crow has been leading the way for years, not only by creating the finest of artworks but also by assisting the development of many of today's top, award-winning art quilters. This book allows you to bring Nancy's guidance and inspiration into your own studio, where, if you're mind works like mine, you'll find your imagination coming alive with creative ideas. And Nancy reveals so many hints to the artist's process that you'll also find yourself gathering much new knowledge about how to develop your ideas. I highly recommend this book.

As a great admirer of Nancy's work both as an artist and a teacher, it was very exciting to finally read this long awaited jem. It is the honesty about her work and the struggle that it takes to produce pieces of pure rare beauty that shines through as she shares herself with the reader. As an artist who is ahead of the contempory field of fibre artists, the insight we discover from her process gives hope to all who struggle in making original art.

This new book covers the spectrum from gorgeous coffee table art book to instruction on how to grow as an artist and a person. Nancy has struggled through the learning curve in a systematic and logical way, and shown others by example how to develop their personal talents and skills as fabric artists. Of course, the quilts are well beyond wonderful and the glimpes into her private life are inspiring. I wonder what comes next from Nancy Crow!

This is one of the 10 best books I have ever read. It was so intense I could only manage 3 or 4 pages at a time. Nancy Crow shares not only the images of her work but her artistic and creative process, a gift of enormous value to the reader. This book would be of interest to anyone interested in art or quilts in particular.

This book is fabulous - I really like the layout design and photography, and Nancy's journal entries. It's not only a quilt compendium, but a gorgeous modern art book. Nancy Crow is a national treasure and a gifted artist - what a pleasure to own so many pictures of her work.