Anemones in a Cornish Window, 1930 by Christopher Wood

While at Liverpool University, Christopher Wood met Augustus John who encouraged him to be a painter. He trained at the Academie Julian in Paris from 1921 and travelled extensively in Europe and North Africa. By the mid 1920s he was an established artist whose work was influenced by his friendship with Ben and Winifred Nicholson and the primitivism of Alfred Wallis