Somewhere Inside the Rainbow: Nancy Bergman

Nancy Bergman, Effervescence, 2024, art quilt, 86.4 x 33 cm

Both art and science require creative thinking to generate new ideas. By the seventeenth century, the technology of optics was already a well developed field. Sir Isaac Newton in 1672 published a series of experiments and was the first to understand the rainbow. He refracted white light with a prism into it’s component colours, red, orange, yellow, green, indigo, blue and violet.

This exhibit is Nancy’s artistic take on the science of the rainbow.

Nancy has experimented with a number of art forms. She found that creating works with fabric was the most satisfying for her and adopted the art quilt as her preferred method for expression. She had her work juried into both national and international shows. Her work has been included in numerous invitation shows in Canada and the United States and won major awards.