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Nell Bradshaw
1904 - 1997



	Mortuary Poles historical canadian 1970 Code B 20 x 24 (in) oil on panel

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Nell Bradshaw was born in California, and moved as a child to Coronation, Alberta where she began to paint. She studied under Molly Bobak, Duncan de Kergammeau, A. Y. Jackson, Herbert Seibner, and did life drawing under H.G. Glyde. Later, she received inspiration from the works of Paul Klee, Van Gogh, Jack Shadbolt, and the best of the West Coast native carvers.
She was fascinated with the totem poles created by the First Nations people, and began painting them plein aire in the late 1930s. Nell came often to British Columbia inspired by the people and fellow totem painters of the day. She moved to British Columbia full time in 1955 but it was not until 1964, after the death of her husband, that she felt that she could devote herself to painting on a full-time basis.
Nell Bradshaw's paintings portray the mood, feeling, and heritage of the west coast native people and their topographical environment. Her paintings are widely collected in Canada, the U.S.A, and abroad. She was a full member of the Federation of Canadian Artists. and a member of the Alberta Society of Artists.
Humphrey Davies, Victoria Times, 1964, wrote, "She draws them as they are today; weather beaten, decaying and ready to topple over....but what lifts her paintings above the ordinary, is the feeling and mood she gives to her pictures. Sometimes the mood is almost tragic because it brings to the fore the passing of a glorious age of native culture. In addition to the totem paintings for which she is most well known, she also worked in the still life and abstract genres."
She is also known for her wood block prints and collages. Other painters of similar time and merit include Emily Carr and Mildred Valley Thornton

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