Many people are working from home these days, but few of them have a setup as enviable as that of Whitefish, Montana, painter Nancy Cawdrey. All she has to do is wake up, descend two flights of stairs, and she’s in a 1,000-square-foot studio where she can work on her latest oil or watercolor painting or on one of the vibrant silk paintings that have become something of a trademark during her two-decade career.
“My studio is in my house,” Cawdrey says. “It’s a little bit like the European thing, where you work on the ground floor, live on the second floor, and sleep on the third floor. I have three stations. I have oil in one area, with a big easel. I have watercolor in another, which is a fairly flat area, and silk painting in another one. I give myself that choice to move from one to another. I don’t often do that. More often than not, I will be working on several silk paintings at a time or several watercolors at a time.”
Read the full article in the January/February 2021 issue.
Return of Chief Middle Rider
Dye on silk
26” by 58”
Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos)
Dye on silk
30” by 40”
