Kate Nicholson (b.1929)

Daughter of famous artists Ben and Winifred Nicholson, Kate was born in Cumbria. At Bath College of Art she was a pupil of the renowned St Ives artist Peter Lanyon, a friend of her father and stepmother Barbara Hepworth. Kate moved to St. Ives in 1956 and became an associate member of the Penwith Society of Arts.

Through the 1960s and 70s, she painted alongside her mother Winifred, who had a profound influence on her use of light and colour. Her first public exhibition was in 1951, at the City Art Gallery, Carlisle. Since then Kate Nicholson has become highly regarded and her paintings are held by many prestigious public and private collections including the Tate Gallery, the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Arts Council, Kettle’s Yard, the Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery, the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery as well as Cambridge University.