Artist Info
Nicola Wood
Nicola Wood attended Southport School of Art and Manchester College of Art where she graduated with First Class Honours in Textile Design. She arrived at The Royal College of Art in 1957, where her contemporaries included Zandra Rhodes, Derick Boshier, Pauline Boty, Patrick Caulfield and David Hockney. She went on to study at Parsons School of Art in New York on a Fulbright Scholarship. Here she designed book covers and full page advertisements for the New York Times. On return to London in 1964 she produced designs for Heal’s, Liberty’s and Biba as well as commissions from the German Firm Rasch Textil. She emigrated to the USA in 1984 becoming a celebrated artist in her own right with work in museums and collections across the USA.