Nancy Horrocks née Kitchin (1900–1989) was a British artist, notable for the abstract paintings she created in the 1960s.
Nancy Horrocks | |
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| Born | Nancy Kitchin 1900 Compton, Hampshire |
| Died | 1989 (aged 88–89) Cranleigh, West Sussex |
| Nationality | British |
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| Known for | Abstract painting |
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]