Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Sad News Of The Death of Nadia Warner




I've just learnt of the sad death my beautiful friend, the artist Nadia Warner. She died in December after a long illness. I've known Nadia from my time as a student in Birmingham in the 1970s and she was a special person with an inner as well as an outer beauty. There was something different about Nadia, an inner light and a way of looking at the world that was very unusual compared to anyone else I knew. The last time I saw her she was all packed to travel round the world and find a new place to live in either Australia or Hawaii. She settled in California for a number of years, furthering her talent as a painter and photographer. But illness brought her back to the UK. Here her painting Veiled Sunset: