“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.

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