Phillida Nicholson obituary
Dilys Neill
My cousin, the artist Phillida Nicholson, who has died at the age of 96, was a talented landscape painter, printmaker and tapestry maker, and an intrepid traveller.
She was born in north Wales, and her lifelong home was a small cottage in the Clwydian mountains above the village of Bodfari, accessed by a farm track and supplied with water from a spring. She grew up there as the youngest of three children of Molly (nee Clark) and Richard Nicholson, and was so petite that she was described by her father as “the pocket edition”. With her sister, Joan, and brother, David, Phillida roamed the local countryside on foot or with ponies, and recalled walking down the mountain in all weathers to catch the train from Bodfari to school in Denbigh. Later she went to boarding school in Yorkshire.