The only existing self portrait. #NancySharp #artherstory #arthistory @forarthistory.org.uk @artherstory.bsky.social
June 12, 2026 at 11:30 AM
The only existing self portrait. #NancySharp #artherstory #arthistory @forarthistory.org.uk @artherstory.bsky.social
Never trained as a teacher, working in one of the tougher London comprehensives in the early '60s, #NancySharp had an interesting approach to classroom discipline. A former pupil recounts:
April 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Never trained as a teacher, working in one of the tougher London comprehensives in the early '60s, #NancySharp had an interesting approach to classroom discipline. A former pupil recounts:
Sneaking off for what turned out to be an illicit cigarette during a religious retreat #chicory #nancysharp #arthistory #artherstory took time out to write to a friend.
![A drawing of chicory and bees on a letter, with handwritten text reading: "This my dearest is known as chicory. It grows at Clewer far bluer than it really ought. I have discovered a patch of wasteground in the gdn where I am. I am also smoking a cigarette & trying to draw, in a small hurricane of wind, which makes the bees too restless & the pages flap. Alas, I can do no better. [I have also discovered it is out of bounds this patch & retreatants are asked not to smoke.]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v5z3xu4mzml4suovffjyvc7u/bafkreieqaek5fcyfqnzbiiqitshuabpw2f6egsy5afzv3zuncgwbvfnmta)
April 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Sneaking off for what turned out to be an illicit cigarette during a religious retreat #chicory #nancysharp #arthistory #artherstory took time out to write to a friend.
But her grammar skills have given me the opportunity to write this: "[I added the comma after ‘night’ in Sharp’s letter to allow myself the opportunity to put this note somewhere near the subject matter.] " #nancysharp
April 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
But her grammar skills have given me the opportunity to write this: "[I added the comma after ‘night’ in Sharp’s letter to allow myself the opportunity to put this note somewhere near the subject matter.] " #nancysharp
#Nancysharp was so inept at grammar she regularly reminded correspondents she had missed the class in school about the comma. Quoting a letter from her brother, a footnote is required: 'Like his sister, Edward seems to have missed the class that discussed the use of the comma in written English.'
April 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
#Nancysharp was so inept at grammar she regularly reminded correspondents she had missed the class in school about the comma. Quoting a letter from her brother, a footnote is required: 'Like his sister, Edward seems to have missed the class that discussed the use of the comma in written English.'
From one painter to another, expressing her opinion about whom her husband (they would be divorced relatively soon thereafter) was having an affair with: ‘I am surprised you should like a girl with such awful hands.’ #artherstory #nancysharp #williamcoldstream
April 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM
From one painter to another, expressing her opinion about whom her husband (they would be divorced relatively soon thereafter) was having an affair with: ‘I am surprised you should like a girl with such awful hands.’ #artherstory #nancysharp #williamcoldstream
Thus did Coldstream and Sharp come to Graham Bell’s notice, and he contrived when introduced to Victor Pasmore to try to learn more: ‘I tried to get him to talk about Coldstream. He didn’t say much but how much he admired Nancy’s painting’. #Nancysharp #arthistory @artherstory.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Thus did Coldstream and Sharp come to Graham Bell’s notice, and he contrived when introduced to Victor Pasmore to try to learn more: ‘I tried to get him to talk about Coldstream. He didn’t say much but how much he admired Nancy’s painting’. #Nancysharp #arthistory @artherstory.bsky.social
A sketch, likely made when visiting her daughter in Turkey, but I am not sure; so don't quote me, as they say. Nonetheless, I like the glimpse of Nancy at work while away from the daily routines, happy again just to have time to paint for no reason except to paint. #sketch #nancysharp #artherstory
July 12, 2026 at 8:41 PM
A sketch, likely made when visiting her daughter in Turkey, but I am not sure; so don't quote me, as they say. Nonetheless, I like the glimpse of Nancy at work while away from the daily routines, happy again just to have time to paint for no reason except to paint. #sketch #nancysharp #artherstory
Years later, she re-visited Nuns in the Snow, renaming it Upper Park Road #womenartists #nancysharp #artherstory #C20britishart
July 11, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Years later, she re-visited Nuns in the Snow, renaming it Upper Park Road #womenartists #nancysharp #artherstory #C20britishart
'And then darling you came across and clutched me; and all I was conscious of in my vast gratitude & relief & pleasure was the wonderful sensation of your belly like a heap of wheat & being able to lean against it...' #womenartists #artherstory #nancysharp The sitter is Jean Forth.
June 25, 2026 at 10:47 AM
'And then darling you came across and clutched me; and all I was conscious of in my vast gratitude & relief & pleasure was the wonderful sensation of your belly like a heap of wheat & being able to lean against it...' #womenartists #artherstory #nancysharp The sitter is Jean Forth.
A hedgehog so detailed and carefully drawn it seems alive, if resting. #womenartists, #nancysharp #artherstory #arthistory #hedgehogs
June 19, 2026 at 11:14 PM
A hedgehog so detailed and carefully drawn it seems alive, if resting. #womenartists, #nancysharp #artherstory #arthistory #hedgehogs
A picture today. It's hot, hazy, humid, so... Oil on canvas. #arthistory #art #nancysharp #hampstead
June 13, 2026 at 9:22 PM
A picture today. It's hot, hazy, humid, so... Oil on canvas. #arthistory #art #nancysharp #hampstead
The only existing self portrait. #NancySharp #artherstory #arthistory @forarthistory.org.uk @artherstory.bsky.social
June 11, 2026 at 6:06 PM
The only existing self portrait. #NancySharp #artherstory #arthistory @forarthistory.org.uk @artherstory.bsky.social
August 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Ginger cat, tom, on red ground, c. 1957, by #NancySharp (British 1909-2001), who was born #otd, Oct 29. Private collection; source, "Nancy Sharp: An Undeservedly Forgotten Exemplar of Modern British Painting, by Christopher Fauske," artherstory.net/nancy-sharp-...
#womenartists #NationalCatDay
#womenartists #NationalCatDay
October 29, 2024 at 12:30 PM
Ginger cat, tom, on red ground, c. 1957, by #NancySharp (British 1909-2001), who was born #otd, Oct 29. Private collection; source, "Nancy Sharp: An Undeservedly Forgotten Exemplar of Modern British Painting, by Christopher Fauske," artherstory.net/nancy-sharp-...
#womenartists #NationalCatDay
#womenartists #NationalCatDay
Dandelions, 1970s?, by #NancySharp (British 1909-2001). Held by the UK's Government Art Collection, artcollection.culture.gov.uk/artwork/10888/ #womenartists #artherstory #NationalDandelionDay
April 5, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Dandelions, 1970s?, by #NancySharp (British 1909-2001). Held by the UK's Government Art Collection, artcollection.culture.gov.uk/artwork/10888/ #womenartists #artherstory #NationalDandelionDay