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Nancy Guild Bendall
1950-2025
Her art will live on.

New release - A Looking-Glass Christmas
Oh, Kitty! how nice it would be if we could only get through into Looking-glass [World]! I’m sure it’s got, oh! such beautiful things in it! Let’s pretend there’s a way of getting through into it, somehow. C.S Lewis
This is a print from Nancy's 2024/25 art book. "Imagine what happens when steam-punk colides with the Looking-Glass". In a departure from earlier books, there are no quotes. The reader is left to create their own narrative as the images unfold. Contact Meade House Press on the Store page to reserve your copy.

Just for fun !

Taking a break from digital art for a while. These days, I’ve been whittling away at wood, measuring my Prufrock-ian days with carved wooden figures. As each is completed it is polished with beeswax and lined up in platoon formation across a bank of dressers waiting their destinations. Although I overdo it and end up whimpering in the night from cramped muscles and joints, I do think it’s to the good to challenge the brain/hand connection and oil rusty fingers around tiny wooden sculptures. With each piece I push myself beyond my natural skill level. I have a trunk-load of ideas vying to be released from small blocks of wood — mostly basswood which is a medium/hard wood. March 2024

“I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.” (Peter Max)
The Purpose of Art

“Tears are words the mouth can't say nor can the heart bear.” (Joshua Wisenbaker)
Whenever I Feel Blue..

“The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.” (Virginia Woolf)

Horses - A Study in White

"Why would a Rhyll want to be friends with an ordinary boy like me?"
The Nights and Times of Ned Clery

The Art of Christmas

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes
and curl my back to loneliness.” (Maya Angelou)
The Purpose of Art

Nancy Guild Bendall was a Canadian artist and story teller. While she had inherited her passion for art from her parents, Nancy’s whimsical writing ability was shaped through her research and thesis on fantasy literature (M.A., McMaster University) and by her technical training she completed at Sheridan College: School of Fine Arts.
While Nancy loved to experiment with multi-media materials, such as clay, wood, glass, and metals, she was most proud of her illustrated fantasy novels and portfolio collections of her digital paintings.
Working from her home studio in the artist’s community of Alton, north-west of Toronto, Nancy was inspired by its artistic atmosphere and natural surroundings.

Meet the Artist

A Looking-glass Christmas
17 paintings inspired by the writing of Lewis Caroll, blended with steampunk.
$20

The Purpose of Art
19 paintings, paired with inspiring quotes from leading wordsmiths.
$18

Whenever I Feel Blue..
25 thought provoking paintings captioned with the word art of insightful writers.
$15

Horses - A Study in White "These grey-tone digital paintings study the noble and majestic form of the horse within which the eye completes the suggested boundary of a white image against a white background."
$15

Let it Snow...
"I use a grisaille brush to portray the whiteness of snow on a white canvas playing with trompe i'oeil techniques to challenge and delight."
$15

"Why would a Rhyll want to be friends with an ordinary boy like me?"

An Illustrated fantasy novel by Nancy Guild Bendall
$19

A coming of age tale wrapped in a fantasy.
by Nancy Guild Bendall
$19