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Rachel Nicholson obituary
My friend Rachel Nicholson, who has died aged 91, is known as an artist whose paintings possess rich colour, extraordinary focus and stillness, yet she only began making them in her 40s. Rachel was born in London, one of triplets born to the artists Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson. She, her sister Sarah and her brother Simon spent a childhood shaped by her parents’ need to maintain their own careers. At first they were cared for at a training school for nursery nurses. When the family moved to Cornwall in 1939, first to Carbis Bay and later to nearby St Ives, the children had a nurse, attended a small private school and then, aged 10, became boarders at Dartington school in Devon. Continue reading...
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According to The Guardian’s source item, Rachel Nicholson obituary, My friend Rachel Nicholson, who has died aged 91, is known as an artist whose paintings possess rich colour, extraordinary focus and stillness, yet she only began making them in her 40s. Rachel was born in London, one of triplets born to the artists Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson. She, her sister Sarah and her brother Simon spent a childhood shaped by her parents’ need to maintain their own careers. At first they were cared for at a training school for nursery nurses. When the family moved to Cornwall in 1939, first to Carbis Bay and later to nearby St Ives, the children had a nurse, attended a small private school and then, aged 10, became boarders at Dartington school in Devon. Continue reading…
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- Rachel Nicholson obituaryThe Guardian - 2026-06-12T15:27:24+00:00
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