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

Biography

Horrocks was born at

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and attended Winchester High School. She went on to study at the

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and then the

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from 1918 to 1920. Horrocks frequently exhibited her abstract paintings with the

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between 1958 and 1965. 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. Horrocks also exhibited with the

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and at Heal's Mansard Gallery during the mid-1960s, when she also had a solo exhibition at the New Gallery in Belfast. She also showed works at the Grosvenor Galleries and at the Bradford and Northampton City Art Galleries. Horrocks was married to Lieutenant-General Sir

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and, at different periods, lived at St Ives, then London and at

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in West Sussex before moving to a nursing home at

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Horrocks, Nancy 1900 births 1989 deaths 20th-century British painters 20th-century British women artists Alumni of Chelsea College of Arts Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art Artists from Hampshire British women painters 20th-century women painters