Cadogan's paintings engage the viewer in mindful contemplation. Each work explores how we inhabit space and how one's mind flits between places, things, and memories. The artist's focus on colour and movement rather than perspective or shadow enables a more sensory experience that collapses boundaries between reality and the imagined.
Of her art, Cadogan states: "the artworks are about how I respond emotionally to the place I live, how my mind collects images, how I analyse or ruminate on my response, then turn to painting for resolution"
Nancy Cadogan attended City and Guilds of London Art School and Canterbury Christ Church University from which she graduated with a Degree in Fine Art Painting in 2002. She has been exhibiting her work globally since 2005 with shows in Rome, London, Oslo, Miami, New York and Southampton, USA. Following the success of her 2017 solo show Still Reading, Nancy was selected alongside Tracy Emin, Rachel Whiteread and Cornelia Parker as one of 93 British female artists for The Ned Hotel's Vault 100 collection. In 2020, The Keats-Shelley House commissioned Cadogans's first institutional show in Rome. Her work now features in numerous private collections both in the UK and internationally. Whether it is exploring interior and external worlds as seen in Mind Zero (Saatchi) or it is steeped in poetic research as the works of the Gusto series, Nancy's production brings contemplative attention to her subjects, be it the domestic, the figurative or the natural world."
