1904 - 1997. Known for: Seascape, landscape, bears, totems.
The following is from Bill Lake, acquaintance of the artist. Nelll Bradshaw made several trips to British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands in the 1960's to collect images for her beautiful and...
Read full biography The following is from Bill Lake, acquaintance of the artist. Nelll Bradshaw made several trips to British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands in the 1960's to collect images for her beautiful and pictorially accurate paintings of Native heritage totem poles. The backgrounds of her totem paintings...
Read full biography The following is from Bill Lake, acquaintance of the artist. Nelll Bradshaw made several trips to British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands in the 1960's to collect images for her beautiful and pictorially accurate paintings of Native heritage totem poles. The backgrounds of her totem paintings are compendia of the environments in which she found the poles. I met her in Victoria when she was about sixty. She was a slender, active attractive woman with great energy for creating her art. When I...
Read full biography The following is from Bill Lake, acquaintance of the artist. Nelll Bradshaw made several trips to British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands in the 1960's to collect images for her beautiful and pictorially accurate paintings of Native heritage totem poles. The backgrounds of her totem paintings are compendia of the environments in which she found the poles. I met her in Victoria when she was about sixty. She was a slender, active attractive woman with great energy for creating her art. When I went to her home, she had a long rack in her basement full of her oil paintings, some if it unfinished, some of it experimental and some of it for sale. Her work started to become popular with collectors in the early 1960's. Nell lived in Victoria...
Read full biography The following is from Bill Lake, acquaintance of the artist. Nelll Bradshaw made several trips to British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands in the 1960's to collect images for her beautiful and pictorially accurate paintings of Native heritage totem poles. The backgrounds of her totem paintings are compendia of the environments in which she found the poles. I met her in Victoria when she was about sixty. She was a slender, active attractive woman with great energy for creating her art. When I went to her home, she had a long rack in her basement full of her oil paintings, some if it unfinished, some of it experimental and some of it for sale. Her work started to become popular with collectors in the early 1960's. Nell lived in Victoria B.C. at least from 1960 until her passing in 1997.