Price range: $500-$5000
Nancy Boyd
Artist Interview & Statement 2020
Nancy Boyd was interviewed by Dorothy Woodend of the Tyee about her views and the impact of the pandemic on her and her practice. In the article “Staving Off Pandemic Panic, an Artist Turns to Masked Portraits”, Boyd reveals how the pandemic has affected her.
Many artists are contending with the double-edged pandemic sword of unfocused time and existential angst. But the humble act of drawing can offer a way to calm the mind and chart a path forward.
“Drawing isn’t a panacea, but a discipline. For artist Nancy Boyd, it’s also a way of making sense of the world. Boyd, who taught drawing and painting at Capilano University for more than two decades, works from her home studio in East Vancouver. In the early months of the pandemic she turned her hand to drawing masked people. A few were people she knew, but many more were faces from the news, health-care workers and frontline folk, with only their eyes visible. She has drawn more than 50 masked faces so far, representing a broad range of ages and backgrounds. …”
“I wanted to be a witness to this extraordinary time but in a way that wasn’t fraught with all the complex considerations that plagued my regular practice.”
For the full article please go to The Tyee’s website HERE.
Available Works
Entropic 1
Evidence
Late Migration
Night’s Steep Middle
Slim Margins
Infinite Flux
Inky Mischief
Entropic 8
A Delicate Truce
Entropic 11
To the Edge #2
Contingent #14
Contingent #16
Contingent #19
Unscripted
Wabi Sabi 17: Etheric
Contingent #20
Specimen 84
Specimen 93
Excavation with Field Notes 8
Excavation with field notes 1
Untitled (Collage 3)
Untitled (Collage 2)
Catalogs
International Women’s Day Group Exhibition e-Catalog 2021
International Women’s Day Group Exhibition 2021: #ChooseToChallenge
International Women’s Day (IWD) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. Significant activity is witnessed worldwide as groups come together to celebrate women’s achievements or rally for women’s equality.
For the exhibition e-Catalog click HERE
International Women’s Day Exhibition 2026
Opening reception: Saturday, March 14 from 2-5pm.
Our International Women’s Day Exhibition is up! Despite a water line break, we are now back to normal and have this incredible exhibition up!
This exhibition will highlight works by our women artist by including; Nancy Boyd, Isla Burns, Camrose Ducote, Jennifer Hornyak, Joice M Hall, Dorothy Knowles, Elza Mayhew, Amy Modahl, Elzbieta Krawecka, Hilda Oomen, Linda Nardelli, Robin Smith-Peck, and Diana Zasadny.
As 2026 mission for International Women’s Day (IWD) is #GiveToGain, any sales from this exhibition will have a percentage going towards Safe Haven. Safe Haven Foundation of Canada was born from one couple’s personal mission to develop a program dedicated to keeping homeless, and at-risk teenage girls safe, off the streets, and in school.
International Women’s Day (IWD) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. Significant activity is witnessed worldwide as groups come together to celebrate women’s achievements or rally for women’s equality.
As women in art have been overshadowed by their counter parts for so many years, the intent to highlight and applaud all our women artists from our roster by exhibiting them as a strong united group in one fabulous exhibition. Women of all genera of art will be on display and representing art from across Canada. This exhibition will celebrate the diversity and strength of art done by women in Canada.
Historically women have been overshadowed in the arts by their counter-parts for so many years. It is just until recent years that we see women starting to flourish in the artists. Great artists such as Mary Pratt, Helen Frankenthaler, Georgia O’Keefe, and Emily Carr have paved the way for today’s women in the arts. This show is to exemplify the strong and = innovative art that women artists of today are creating.
Biography
Nancy was born in Hamilton in 1949 and studied art at Ontario College of Art as well as at the University of Waterloo before moving to Vancouver. For years she worked as a designer and architectural renderer, most notably for Expo 86. Nancy taught design, drawing and painting at Capilano University for 23 years before she retired in 2010. Her work retains the influences of her design and architectural rendering background as evident in her fascination with ‘views’ and the conflation of scale between the microscopic and the cosmic. All her work, either representational or abstract, is infused with an ongoing sense of wonder and attention to the beautiful.
Nancy has shown extensively in the Lower Mainland and western Canada as well as internationally in the US, Japan and Australia. Her work can be seen at the Vancouver Art Gallery and Burnaby Art Gallery Rental Programs and at Wallace Galleries in Calgary.