Nano Reid trained at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin, where she studied under Seán Keating and Harry Clarke.Afterwards she travelled to Paris, enrolling at the Grand Chaumiere academy along with other Irish artists such as Kathleen Fox. Reid then attended the Central School in London, studying under Bernard Meninsky. Her first solo exhibition was held at the Dublin Painters Gallery in 1934. After returning to Ireland, Reid spent the rest of her life in Drogheda, concentrating on painting aspects of local life and landscapes. However, her paintings are in no way bound by a sense of locality, but are accomplished essays in painterly abstraction. In 1950, along with Norah
McGuinness, Reid represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale.

River Edge, another watercolour, is a composition in which the simplified outlines of birds are subsidiary to the free and expressive markmaking used by the artist to evoke the abundance of life and energy in the
landscape.

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