Sophie Atkinson: life and works

Sophie Atkinson (28 November 1876 – 5 May 1972), born Sophia Mildred Atkinson, was an English watercolour landscape painter and illustrator.

Atkinson was born at Newcastle on Tyne, England, on 28 November 1876. She was the daughter of the painter Matthew Hutton Atkinson and the granddaughter of the painters George Clayton Atkinson and William Adamson. She received training in art at the Newcastle School of Art, at Armstrong College, Newcastle, under R.G. Hatton and difficult at the Sir Hubert von Herkomer School close London.

At the slant of the century Atkinson lived in Corfu; the outcome was the book An Artist in Corfu, published in 1911, which she wrote and illustrated in the same way as her own watercolours.

After the Great War she travelled to India, and superior also visited Denmark, Dresden and the Tyrol. After the death of the painter John Atkinson in 1924 she went to California and from there made her mannerism to western Canada. Taking advantage of Canadian Pacific’s pardon passes to artists and writers, she travelled from British Columbia through Canada to Calgary, Ottawa and Montreal.

Atkinson arranged in Revelstoke, British Columbia in 1949. She was an accomplished artiste who painted yet lifes, landscapes, and scenes of Indian villages, townscapes, and city scenes such as the Revelstoke railway yards. The Revelstoke Art Club was created by Atkinson in 1962. Her work established recognition at exhibitions in British Columbia, specifically at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (From March 31, 1949 to April 2, 1949), Montreal, Calgary and Revelstoke in Canada, and in London, England. She went put happening to to Britain in approximately 1968, settling in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she died upon 5 May 1972.