Jim Nicholson
ARTIST: Jim Nicholson (1924-1996) British
TITLE:”Corn Marigolds, Northton, Harris”
SIGNED: lower right
MEDIUM: Oil on Board
SIZE: 89cm x 89cm incl.frame
CONDITION: excelent
PRICE: £sold
DETAIL: Artist and graphic designer, born in Otley, Yorkshire. After Prince Henry’s Grammar School there Nicholson succumbed to parental pressure and followed his father into banking, which he loathed, but in 1941 he was conscripted into the Royal Air Force, was commissioned in Bomber Command and took part in the bombing of Dresden. In 1945 he returned to the bank but, after attending evening classes at Leeds, joined a Leeds advertising agency as a graphic artist. Moved to Edinburgh in 1955 to work with McCallum Advertising and after nine years persuaded the National Trust for Scotland that it needed an artist-designer, retiring as art director in 1983, when he began painting full-time. He became noted as a painter of the Scottish landscape, showing in group exhibitions with the National Trust for Scotland, at Haddo House in Aberdeenshire and at English-Speaking Union, Edinburgh. Had solo shows at The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, from 1982, and Macaulay Gallery, Stenton, from 1985. His work was in the collections of HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Tate Gallery and Imperial Chemical Industries. Died in Edinburgh.
