Publications

Rug Creations

Rag Rug Creations: An Exploration of Colour and Surface by Lynne Stein (Bloomsbury). Covers every part of the process of making rag rugs. Includes Winifred Nicholson's 'Peacock' rug.

Christopher Wood letters

Christoper Wood's letters to Ben and Winifred Nicholson 1926-1930, ed. by Anne Goodchild, (Sansom & Company).

Bristol Poets

The Echoing Gallery presents thirty three of the finest poets associated with Bristol, each specially commissioned to write a response to art in the city, and includes a poem by John Wheway about Winifred Nicholson's Kate and Jake, Isle of Wight, 1932.

Music of Colour

Music of Colour (Kettle's Yard, 2012). Kettle's Yard houses the largest public collection of pictures by WInifred Nicholson. This book also includes writings by Jim Ede on WInifred Nicholson, as well as her essays 'Liberation of Colour', 'Blinks', and 'I Like to have a Picture in My Room', and a number of pictures previously unpublished.

Kettle's Yard and its artists

Kettle's Yard and its artists (Kettle's Yard, 2011) includes writings by Jim Ede about Winifred Nicholson and quotes from her own letters.

Kettle's Yard house guide

Kettle's Yard house guide, (Kettle's Yard, 2012) contains details of the pictures on permanent display in the house.

Alastair Morton

Alastair Morton and Edinburgh Weavers: Visionary Textiles and Modern Art, by Lesley Jackson (V & A Publishing, 2012) includes information about Winifred Nicholson's friendship with Alastair Morton and illustrates her textile design 'Sequence'.

Without From Within

Without From Within, an exhibition at the Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham, 6 March-3 May 2010. The exhibition explores the way artists have treated the relationship between interior and exterior space. The exhibition includes two pictures by Winifred Nicholson: 'Glimpse Upon Waking' 1976 – reproduced on the cover of the catalogue – and 'Day and Night, Paris' 1933-36

Recent Exhibition at the Crane Kalman Gallery

An Exhibition of Paintings by Winifred Nicholson to mark the publication of the book: Winifred Nicholson by Christopher Andreae.

Art and Life

Art and Life: Ben Nicholson, Winifred Nicholson, Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis, William Staite Murray, 1920-1931. Art and Life examines the artistic partnership of Ben and Winifred Nicholson in the 1920s and their friendship and collaboration with Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis and the potter William Staite Murray. Inspired by each other, the Nicholsons experimented furiously and often painted the same subject, one as a colourist the other more interested in form. Winifred wrote of her time with Ben, 'All artists are unique and can only unite as complementaries, not as similarities'. (Philip Wilson Publishers, 2013).

Winifred Nicholson in Cumberland

Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition at Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, which examines Winifred Nicholson's creativity in Cumberland over 70 years. (Abbot Hall art Gallery, 2016)

The St. Ives Artists

The St. Ives Artists, A Biography of Place and Time by Michael Bird (Lund Humphries) discusses Winifred Nicholson's trip to Feock and St. Ives in 1928, and illustrates Feock Creek 1928.

Winifred Nicholson: Liberation of Colour

Winifred Nicholson: Liberation of Colour by Jovan Nicholson (Philip Wilson Publishers) explores the whole of Winifred Nicholson’s career with a special emphasis on her theories of colour and her late ‘prismatic paintings’.

Portraits of Place

Portraits of Place: Works from Kettle’s Yard and Richard Long, The Heong Gallery at Downing College, Cambridge, 5 November 2016 – 15 January 2017. Published by Downing College, Cambridge.