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Rachel Nicholson
Born in 1934 she is the daughter of painter Ben Nicholson and sculptor Barbara Hepworth. She, her sister Lady Sarah Bowness and brother Simon Nicholson were triplets.

Despite the creativity of her parents and siblings, Nicholson didn't start painting until she was aged 41. Her first solo exhibition took place in 1979 at the Field Gallery in Nottingham. At her first exhibition in London, in 1980, her father said, about her painting Still Life on Navy Blue, ‘I had never realised she could paint so well. I would have been happy to have painted that one myself.’

Nicholson has synaesthesia; in an interview with Radio 3's Michael Berkeley, she stated that music was a very important part of her childhood and provides inspiration for her paintings.

Galleries selling her work:
Stoneman Gallery

Newlyn Art Gallery

Caroline Wiseman

Books written about Rachel Nicholson:

 * 2010, Rachel Nicholson by Alan Wilkinson
 * 2006, Rachel Nicholson: Recent Paintings published by Caroline Wiseman with an introduction by art critic Judith Bumpus.