Sophie Atkinson

Sophie Mildred Atkinson was born in 1876 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. She was the daughter of the painter Matthew Hutton Atkinson and the granddaughter of the painters George Clayton Atkinson and William Adamson. She studied at the Newcastle School of Art and at the Sir Hubert von Herkomer School (London). Around 1900, Atkinson lived in Corfu, and she wrote and illustrated the book An Artist in Corfu which was published in 1911. In 1924 she travelled to California and then to Canada spent years traversing the country. In 1949 Atkinson settled in Revelstoke, British Columbia, and established herself as an accomplished artist who painted still lifes, landscapes, Indigenous villages, townscapes, and city scenes. She founded the Revelstoke Art Club in 1962, and exhibited her work across Canada and in England. She returned to Britain around 1968, settling in Edinburgh, Scotland. Sophie Atkinson died in Edinburgh in 1972.