Reviews

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 “…Turning my back on the blue footprints, I am delighted to find a work that strikes me as beautiful. Just in the nick of time. I was getting discouraged. There on the wall is a lovely “piece of light” – a simple natural wood frame with a glass front enclosing rippling waves of opaque plastic, intertwined at intervals by a thin, supple piece of wood of the same color as the frame. The light falling on this piece makes it appear as if lighted from within. Nancy Lynn Toolan’s “Billow” is simple, light, and full of life. I can’t take my eyes off of it. It lifts my spirits…Light is sublime. It represents something beyond the material, it draws me higher. It is what I seek to render in my own art, physically or symbolically, and what I seek to attain in my spiritual life. “Billow” is my favorite of the show. It is a light in the darkness.”

– Lorena Bowser  from In my Opinion Review of Shasta College Annual Faculty Art Show 2002.

“In her M.F.A. Degree exhibition in Sculpture which took the form of harnessing natural daylight and filtering it through suspended paper to create controlled forms reflected on the surface of a pool of water was a most memorable work. The quiet, beautifully proportioned forms and meditative quality of space created was very successful.”

– Jake Harvey, Emeritus Professor & former Head of Sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland UK.

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