Nancy Horrocks

Horrocks was born at Compton in Hampshire and attended Winchester High School.^[1] She went on to study at the Chelsea School of Art and then the Slade School of Fine Art from 1918 to 1920.^[1][2] Horrocks frequently exhibited her abstract paintings with the Women's International Art Club between 1958 and 1965.^[1] She took part in exhibitions at both the New Vision Centre Gallery and the Knott Gallery in Dallas during 1961 and at the Grabowski Gallery the following year.^[1] Horrocks also exhibited with the Artists' International Association and at Heal's Mansard Gallery during the mid-1960s, when she also had a solo exhibition at the New Gallery in Belfast.^[1] She also showed works at the Grosvenor Galleries and at the Bradford and Northampton City Art Galleries.^[1]

Horrocks was married to Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Horrocks and, at different periods, lived at St Ives, then London and at Singleton in West Sussex before moving to a nursing home at Cranleigh.^[1][2]