Honeysuckle and Sweetpeas

Artist Winifred Nicholson (Oxford, England, 1893 - 1981)

Datec. 1945 - 1946

Mediumoil on board

ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings

DimensionsOverall: Height: 45.5 cm, Width: 74.1 cm
Frame: Height: 55.2 cm, Width: 83 cm

AcquisitionPresented in 1950 by the Contemporary Art Society.

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDAG002913

Keywords

About MeIn the last forty years of her life, the garden of Winifred Nicholson's home at Bank's Head, Cumbria, provided a rich and profuse source of images for her paintings. She loved the pure prismatic colours of flowers but more than this, she found in them something magical and mysterious - a secret life.

Her bold, almost naïve style was an intentional simplification. Winifred Nicholson had made a study of the science of colour and knew the physical properties of colour and light. She wrote; What I have tried to do is to call down colour so that a picture can be a lamp in one's home, not merely a window.

The family of Winifred Nicholson has recently created a new website dedicated to her art:
www.winifrednicholson.com

More About Me

Collections Wall

Nicholson wished to “paint pictures that can call down colour, so that a picture can be a lamp in one's home, not merely a window.” Did she succeed?

Exhibitions

Paradise Lost