Marie Wintzer's Blog Posts Tagged 'Nancy Bell Scott' (5)

WHY - from Nancy Bell Scott

I have received this wonderful piece by Nancy a few weeks back. Life hasn't been a long quiet river for her recently, and I know that this work was her first attempt at getting back to art, at finding her feet in the studio again, so I'm really touched and honored that she thought about me.

Nancy is making great use of what I call her "islands", and to me…

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Added by Marie Wintzer on February 5, 2012 at 10:43pm — 57 Comments

Swimming to the Sound of that Song - from Nancy Bell Scott

Nancy has been spoiling (in a good way) my mailbox quite a bit last week. First with this ink drawing on thick paper of my favorite swimming aquatic creatures :-)) People tend to see all kinds of things in those drawings of hers, including things that are not in the dictionary. I have always seen them as aquatic creatures, but all of a sudden it stroke me that…

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Added by Marie Wintzer on December 12, 2011 at 10:39pm — 9 Comments

Trash book without any trash - from Nancy Bell Scott

Trash books are undoubtedly the big thing right now. Nancy very kindly wanted to send me one, but she also knows that I am not that much into trashpo. What she managed to make here is a trash book that contains only treasures. I have to say, I was blown away by her work. Every page is absolutely exquisite. I can't even start listing all the textures, the…

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Added by Marie Wintzer on October 22, 2011 at 1:36am — 20 Comments

Poems from the Past - from Nancy Bell Scott

Recently there have been several great blogs about mail art related to Memories and Memory. The piece that Nancy is sending me breathes the same air of Reminiscence. It comes with a wonderful letter, relating sweet childhood memories, freewheeling days at her grandparents' farmhouse. A child's universe, a lost world, but how come ever so present in the adults…

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Added by Marie Wintzer on October 11, 2011 at 10:16am — 11 Comments

The Waterville knitting mill - from Nancy Bell Scott

When I saw Nancy's work featuring on several blogs I was hoping to receive something from her, and I didn't have to wait for a very long time, her first envelope arrived this week, lucky me.

Nancy dug up an old box full of of antique print blocks and stamps from her attic, check out her blog if you haven't seen it yet, it is very impressive. She started to use and…

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Added by Marie Wintzer on August 13, 2011 at 12:53am — 13 Comments

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