Nancy Carol Willis Studios
& Birdsong Books

Nancy Carol Willis

Drawing

1322 Bayview Road
Middletown, DE 19709

(302) 378-7274
www.nancycarolwillis.com
ncwillis@nancycarolwillis.com
www.birdsongbooks.com
birdsong@birdsongbooks.com

Gallery Hours

Please call for an appointment.

Gallery Directions

Turn onto Bayview Road from Route 13 south of the Boyd's Corner (Route 896) intersection. Proceed three miles just past where Route 9 tees into Bayview Road. Turn right into the driveway of a Colonial-eara farmhouse surrounded by the Augustine Wildlife Area.

 

Artist Statement

Nancy Carol Willis is a native Delaware illustrator and author of natural science children's picture books. She also creates wildlife and landscape illustrations in a variety of media. Her inspiration for both comes from a lifetime of observing Delaware wildlife and habitats. She has volunteer experience rehabilitating native birds, banding migratory shorebirds, and maintaining a release site for orphaned raccoons.

In 1998, Willis founded Birdsong Books, an independent publisher of natural science children's picture books. Willis says writing and illustrating children's books involves presenting kid-friendly science with the drama, humor, and charm needed to excite a child's curiosity and caring for wild animals and the trials they go through to survive. Her award-winning titles include: The Robins In Your Backyard; Raccoon Moon; Red Knot: A Shorebird's Incredible Journey, and The Animals' Winter Sleep (written by Lynda Graham-Barber).

In 2009, Willis received an Established Professional Individual Artist Fellowship grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts. Her wildlife paintings and book illustrations were exhibited at the Biggs Museum of American Art, the Station Gallery (with friend A. N. Wyeth), and at the Carvel State Building.

Nancy Carol Willis has a Bachelors degree in graphic and advertising design from the University of Delaware and a Masters degree in business administration from Wilmington College. She teaches design classes at Wilmington University and offers curriculum-based school programs and workshops that have reached over 50,000 children in the United States and Germany.

Willis has served as President for the Council of Delaware Artists and has twice by invitation created ornaments for the White House Christmas Tree. She has written and illustrated for Outdoor Delaware magazine, the Delmarva Ornithological Society, the Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Control, The Delaware Division of Parks & Recreation, and Kindermusik International.