Wild Flower Window-Sill by Winifred Nicholson

The painting was created while Winifred Nicholson was staying at Sandaig in Ross-shire, on the west coast of Scotland. Winifred made a number of trips there during the 1950s in the company of her friend, the poet Kathleen Raine, staying at a small croft they rented from the writer Gavin Maxwell.

In “Wild Flower Window-Sill”, Nicholson communicates just how much the remoteness of Sandaig delighted her with its myriad of Hebridean wild flowers, including yellow flags, wild garlic, and cotton grass.