Rachel Nicholson obituary

My friend Rachel Nicholson, who has died aged 91, is known as an artist whose paintings possess rich colour, extraordinary focus and stillness, yet she only began making them in her 40s.Rachel was born in London, one of triplets born to the artists Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson. She, her sister Sarah and her brother Simon spent a childhood shaped by her parents’ need to maintain their own careers. At first they were cared for at a training school for nursery nurses. When the family mo