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By Betsy Branscome
Times Community Newspapers
Staff Writer
Nancy Prevo considers the world her canvas. Disregarding the fact that her only prior knowledge of steeplechasing was watching Liz Taylor as “National Velvet” nearly three decades ago, she created a whimsical “genre painting” overview for the 1998 official Virginia Gold Cup. , “I enjoyed painting the Virginia Gold Cup because it took me back to my years of riding at the Wilton Riding Club in Connecticut,” Prevo said from her Tuscon, Ariz., home. Great Meadow founder Arthur Arundel first saw Prevo’s landscape works on display at the Granary Gallery in Martha’s Vineyard. Soon after, he. contacted her and invited her to the 1997 Gold Cup.
“I am what you’d call an ‘inspirational painter,’ “ Prevo said. “I love color and action. When I came to last year’s Gold Cup, I took 18 rolls of film and worked from photos to create the painting.”
Prevo works in many mediums, she said; the official Gold Cup painting is acrylic on canvas.
Her art career began well before adolescence when a teacher at her grammar school sent her off to the High School of Music and Art in New York City. She then attended New York’s American School of Design.
After school, Prevo worked for an ad agency, then met Dr. Seuss artist Eric Gurney. They fell in love and moved from New York to the Ariz ina desert
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