Nancy Horrocks

Nancy Horrocks née Kitchin (1900–1989) was a British artist, notable for the abstract paintings she created in the 1960s.

Nancy Horrocks
Born
Nancy Kitchin

1900
Compton, Hampshire
Died1989 (aged 88–89)
Cranleigh, West Sussex
NationalityBritish
Alma mater
  • Chelsea School of Art
  • Slade School of Fine Art
Known forAbstract painting

Biography

Horrocks was born at Compton in Hampshire and attended Winchester High School.[1] She went on to study at the Chelsea School of Art and then the Slade School of Fine Art from 1918 to 1920.[1][2] Horrocks frequently exhibited her abstract paintings with the Women's International Art Club between 1958 and 1965.[1] She took part in exhibitions at both the New Vision Centre Gallery and the Knott Gallery in Dallas during 1961 and at the Grabowski Gallery the following year.[1] Horrocks also exhibited with the Artists' International Association and at Heal's Mansard Gallery during the mid-1960s, when she also had a solo exhibition at the New Gallery in Belfast.[1] She also showed works at the Grosvenor Galleries and at the Bradford and Northampton City Art Galleries.[1]

Horrocks was married to Lieutenamt-General Sir Brian Horrocks and, at different periods, lived at St Ives, then London and at Singleton in West Sussex before moving to a nursing home at Cranleigh.[1][2]

References
  1. David Buckman (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0 953260 95 X.
  2. Frances Spalding (1990). 20th Century Painters and Sculptors. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1 85149 106 6.
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