Kate Nicholson Paintings for Sale1929-2019

Kate Nicholson was a British painter whose work in the 1940s and 1950s established her as a distinctive voice within the St Ives circle. The daughter of Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, and part of one of Britain’s most famous artistic families, she absorbed both their influences and the broader modernist currents shaping post-war British art. While surrounded by celebrated figures such as Peter Lanyon, Patrick Heron and Terry Frost, she developed a quieter, personal vision.

Her still life paintings from this period are especially notable: simplified arrangements of bottles, jugs and everyday objects, painted with restrained colour and a lyrical clarity. These works reflect the St Ives interest in form and abstraction but retain a sense of intimacy and calm, standing apart from the more overtly experimental tendencies of her peers. Today, Nicholson’s still lifes of the 1940s and 1950s remain admired for their balance of modernism and quiet visual appeal.