Nancy Bridgewater Batty is an artist and designer. She studied Fine Art at Manchester Art School in the early ‘90’s and then spent the next 10 years working in design – as studio assistant to the textile designer, Richard Smith and then making paper collages using her surplus gouache -painted textile designs.

She eventually returned to her first love, painting, when her first child was born. Following her years of colour scrutinising for designs Nancy’s portraits and landscapes have a freshness and clarity which she continues to develop as her family grows.