Designer, printmaker and painter, born Elsie Queen Myers in London, where she died. She was the daughter of the writer L H Myers and wife of the architect Kit Nicholson, son of the painter William Nicholson, whose work she assisted. She grew up in artistic circles, studied for a year in Paris concentrating on Batik, and then practised it and designed rugs and wallpapers. Nicholson worked with Marion Dorn, E McKnight Kauffer and Cole & Son. In the 1940s and 1950s she made fabric designs for Edinburgh Weavers. Nicholson’s designs were elegant and witty. She was interested in the natural motion of bird and animal life and plant forms. Her painting career lasted 15 years from 1941 and she had one solo show at Hanover Gallery, in 1950. Tate Gallery holds her Still Life with Mirror, of 1949, which shows the influence of Braque, who was revered by her.