Ben Nicholson was born on the 10th of April 1894 and died in 1982. He was born in Buckinghamshire. Nicholson studied at spade school of art for a short while until branching out to Italy, France and the United States to Cary on his practice.

Nicholson originally starts as a painter. His paintings were very abstract and had a bold use of shape. In the 1920s Nicholson took inspirations from the cubist movement focusing on bold sold shape using a mixture of sharp corners and curves.

Nicholson’s paintings were brightly coloured and bold as he also took a lot of inspirations from the post impressionists. It wasn’t until 1933 Nicholson released his fist geometric inspired sculpture. His sculptures were often reliefs, a relief is is a sculpture which hangs on the wall and has raised 3D elements from the base. The designs were simplistic only using a mixture of circles and rectangles and were very effective and minimal.

The sculptures were also plain white which really allowed you to focus on the clean edges and shapes not being destructed by colour. Nicholson believes all art should be see by public so slit of his work is outside on show for anyone to see.