Nancy Gilmore

Nancy Theresa Gilmore was born Nancy Theresa Mary Rose Powderly to an Irish Catholic family in upstate New York. She showed artistic talent in many mediums from an early age. The family and social environment of her childhood were not able to support these gifts for many complex reasons. Nancy feels that all of these "barriers" just deepened her talents further. As gifted children are, she was prone to intuitive insights that were startling in their nature and disconcerting to those around her. She could not stop the flow of her creativity nor its process. In elementary school she seemed unable to pay attention to the class as she was so busy drawing in the margins of her tablet. Having attended Catholic Convent Schools until she was sixteen she found life within those parameters challenging. It was not until Nancy left her family home and schooling at this young age that she was able to indulge her artistic expression in any of the medias available. When she was a child she used anything she could find, be it paper bags or nature itself to express herself and the images that came to her. Because of economic constraints, she would continue in this manner for many years.
Nancy started selling professionally at the age of seventeen. She is a self taught intuitive artist. She held multiple jobs and lived in many places in the US in order to support her art through the years until she could do only her art. During these times she was part of a women's video production company that made documentary films. Magnetic Kinetic Productions was best known for its video on the Women's Peace Encampment against Nuclear Arms in Seneca Falls N.Y. She also began a dress design and manufacturing business of one of a kind dresses that is still in operation selling in boutiques in the West and Southwest US. In Tucson Arizona where she had moved as a single mother in order to raise her son Nancy opened her first gallery. The Nancy T. Genovese Gallery ( her former marriage name) was in operation during the mid 1980's. She sold her paintings, pottery, sculpture and textile art in this gallery but found that she was unable to keep it stocked as it would be purchased faster than she could produce it. It was at this time that Nancy's work started being purchased for private collections internationally. Finding it best for her more introspective personality when it comes to her creativity, she chose to close her gallery and produce only for independent galleries. She continues that form of business arrangement to this day.
Nancy met her husband Dale E. Gilmore in Tucson Az and they have been married for sixteen years. It is a marriage dedicated to enhancing each others lives and goals. They as a couple have overcome many hardships in the last nine years beginning with a trauma that rendered Nancy unable physically to produce art in most of her previous mediums. At the start of these difficult times Nancy turned her back on all creativity. When it became clear through assorted doctors and healers of many genres that this blocking of her talent would only prolong her ill health, she slowly allowed the intuitions to come again. Having moved to the Northwest US she found there a home and life that brought a stronger, more centered creative voice. She found her deeper spirituality. Producing a body of work that speaks to this strength and her matured talents she felt that it was again time to allow others to view it. Having healed and "found her voice" she made a decision to leave the Pacific Northwest and to live where she and her husband now reside contentedly in a small town in Missouri USA. Nancy's art includes drawings (pencil, pen, oil stick, chalk), textile art and pottery.

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