E Q Nicholson
Elsie Queen Nicholson was a designer, printmaker and painter. She grew up in artistic circles, studied for a year in Paris concentrating on Batik, and then practised it and designed rugs and wallpapers.
Nicholson worked with Marion Dorn, E McKnight Kauffer and Cole & Son. In the 1940s and 1950s she made fabric designs for Edinburgh Weavers. She was interested in the natural motion of bird and animal life and plant forms. Her painting career lasted 15 years from 1941 and she had one solo show at Hanover Gallery, in 1950.
