International Seminar 2007

In June 2007, the Sorbonne in Paris France displayed two of Nadine's paintings during an International Willa Cather Seminar.

Excerpts from the Artist's Statement:

"Pioneering the Way" and "Way Ahead" reference Nebraska author, Willa Cather - the past and future. "

 
The theme for these paintings is: The end is nothing, the road is all. That is a quote from Cather's novel, Old Mrs. Harris. "Listen: a great man once said: 'le but m'est rien; le chemin, c'est tout.' That means" The end is nothing, the road is all."


"As a young girl during the pioneer days, Cather lived on Nebraska's plains. Later in her life, she established herself as one of America's best writers. Today, many decades later, readers still find her work to be a fascinating adventure.

Creating these paintings was a very personal journey for me, a Nebraska artist. I walked through my family history as I created these paintings.

"I can relate in a personal and intimate way to Cather's novels because I lived as she did in a part of Nebraska with wide prairie vistas and a sparse population. My grandparents on my mother's side were Nebraska homesteaders in the 1880s and lived in a sod house. My Swedish grandmother on my father's side was the second of 10 children born in a sod house to Swedish immigrants. "
 

Willa Cather was creatively inspired by the prairies in Nebraska. So am I.