“Nancy Goslee Power is to landscape what Frank Gehry is to architecture,” famed California historian Kevin Starr once remarked.

In his book Coast of Dreams, California on the Edge, 1990-2003, he describes her style as ‘eclectic boldness’. Her ability to integrate cultural and landscape palettes, as well as her keen awareness of how people use space, enables her to create unique, visually striking and well received environments that place her as one of the great landscape designers working today.

Frank Gehry calls her “a very special landscape designer. Her understanding and love of plant material makes a big difference to her designs.”

Nancy Power was awarded the 1999 Henry Francis du Pont Medal in landscape design, she was an Artist in Residence at the American Academy in Rome in 2004, and was the recipient of the 2005 House Beautiful Giants of Design Award.

Nancy Power is Chairman of the Board of the Garden School Foundation, which is dedicated to creating schoolyard gardens to provide students with opportunities to benefit from hands-on exposure to nature. This interest has created a new focus for her public work.

In 2009, she worked with Michael Maltzan Architects to complete native and edible gardens for Inner-City Arts, a non-profit arts facility for high poverty inner-city children; with Koning Eizenberg Architects designing another inner-city educational garden for the Children’s Institute community center; and in 2010, is working on kitchen and children gardens for the Herb Alpert Educational Village and the Wildwood School.

Nancy Power is a trustee of the Santa Monica Museum of Art and is a board member of the new Los Angeles Park Conservancy Foundation. She serves as a City of Santa Monica Recreation and Parks Commissioner and on the Advisory Board for the Santa Monica Museum of Art.

She is the author of the classic book, The Gardens of California: Four Centuries of Design from Mission to Modern published by Hennessey and Ingalls and her new monograph, Power of Gardens, was published in late 2009 by Stewart, Tabori & Chang, for which she was awarded a Silver Award of Achievement from the Garden Writers Association.

Nancy Power lectures widely about children gardens, kitchen gardens, sustainability, and garden design; her most recent lectures include the history of kitchen gardens and lectures about the “Power of Gardens”, a lecture and book tour promoting her book of the same name.