Nancy Kirk

A native of Berkeley, California, Nancy Kirk began her formal art studies at the California College of Arts and Crafts. Wanting a more experiential approach to her art, she travelled to Florence, Italy where she studied and worked for ten years. She studied painting under Rafaelle Del Savio, head of scenic design at Florence’s renowned opera house, Il Teatro Communale. She worked alongside legends such as Ricardo Muti, Beni Montressor, Paolo Bortoluzzi, and others. Nancy has applied her study of illustration, set design, and painting in a successful career of fine interior art in exclusive residences and the restoration with original murals in several Schubert theaters on Broadway. She continues to pursue her lifelong passion for abstract expressionism. Artists Franz Kline, Helen Frankenthaler, and Robert Motherwell, among others of that movement have influenced her work as well as an affinity with the spare aesthetics of Japanese art.