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Come to the launch of Winifred Nicholson - A Cumbrian Perspective

Come to the launch of Winifred Nicholson - A Cumbrian Perspective This unique exhibition takes place from October 2nd to November 9th at Castlegate House, Cockermouth, Cumbria. The Journal Culture Club has teamed up with the Castlegate House Gallery to invite 10 lucky members to attend the launch on Sunday October 2nd from 2pm to 5pm.

The exhibition comprises of more than 30 paintings by Winifred Nicholson – the majority depicting Cumberland where she spent most of her life.

Winifred was born in 1893 into one of the big Cumberland families, the Howards .She studied art at Byam Shaw Art School in London and married the painter Ben Nicholson in 1920. In 1923 she and Ben found a farmhouse on a ridge on the Roman Wall at Banks near Brampton. They became a magnet for many of the contemporary artists of the day who came to stay including Paul Nash, Ivon Hitchings, Christopher Wood. They re-designed the windows to maximise the views and incoming light and Winifred would set pots of flowers on the sills which she painted set against a distant landscape.

An important figure in 20th Century painting, Winifred pushed back boundaries of colour and introduced new ideas. She had a theory that there were new and unknown colours on the edge of the spectrum and her later prismatic paintings explored this theory.

The paintings in this exhibition date from those early days in the twenties at Banks through to her last prismatic paintings in the late seventies and early eighties. Sun room is one of her later works painted a year before she died. It exudes simplicity and depth. Winifred died in 1981 at the age of 88.

Most of the works have been borrowed from private collections and have never been exhibited before. There will be at least ten paintings for sale, which is a rare occurrence. In the past 20 years comparatively few have gone through the sale-rooms and private galleries - those that have, have been fiercely fought over.

There is a 40 page full colour catalogue available (£12 + £1 postage) and most of the works that are for sale are on the web site www.castlegatehouse.co.uk

Further information: http://www.castlegatehouse.co.uk
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