Michael Nicholson

Michael Nicholson is an artist who has worked in sculpture, painting and video. Born in 1916 into a branch of the famous Nicholson family of English artists that include: Sir William, Ben, Nancy et al and with an engineer father and an armament manufacturing uncle, Michael spent his early years at boarding schools and on military service. At the end of World War Two he found himself demobilised, confronting the future with a wife and two small children as well as a deep felt need to find something more mentally stimulating than his military experiences to nourish the spirit and put bread on the table.