‘Youth and Age’ Pencil and coloured pencil on paper. circa 1990
All images: copyright the estate of Sonia Lawson
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Untitled Anti War I, 1967, oil on canvas, 156cm x 244cm
Later Work
Early Work
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Sonia at the RCA in 1956 (student)
Garrison Town 1981, triptych, oil on canvas 246cm x 304cm

1934- 2023

Sonia Lawson was an artist of conscience, whose work holds a fearless beauty. Never static, always bold: her canvases are immediately recognisable as her own, paradoxically due to her continuous exploration of style.
Sonia Lawson RA RWS
“Drawing stands like the mountains, the rest is like passing weather”
During the 1970s her work portrayed war, destruction and redemption through a muted palette, packing a powerful punch. Having explored this narrative she turned to colour laden canvases in the 1980s and 1990s, depicting scenes from a personal mythology and the joy she felt for her native Yorkshire Dales.  Her final works in the 2000s are both abstract and figurative: denisons are etched into blocks of impasto paint, runes to be deciphered by the viewer.
The First of England, oil on canvas 1994
Sonia Lawson was the only Royal Academician from The Yorkshire Dales. She was elected RA in 1982 and went on to achieve further recognition for her work, including awards from the Eastern Arts Drawing Prize & the Lorne Award. In 1985 she was elected as a member of the Royal Watercolour Society and in 2005 an Honorary RWA. Sonia’s work is held in collections throughout the world.
Sonia Lawson
Youth and Age Pencil and coloured pencil on paper. circa 1990
All images: copyright the estate of Sonia Lawson
CONTACT
Later Work
Early Work
Untitled Anti War I, 1967, oil on canvas, 156cm x 244cm
Sonia at the RCA in 1956 (student)
Garrison Town 1981, triptych, oil on canvas 246cm x 304cm
Sonia Lawson was the only Royal Academician from The Yorkshire Dales. She was elected RA  in 1982 and went on to achieve further recognition for her work, including awards from the Eastern Arts Drawing Prize, the Lorne Award. In 1985 she was elected as a member of the Royal Watercolour Society and  in 2005 an Honorary RWA. Sonia’s work is held in collections throughout the world.
Sonia Lawson was an artist of conscience, whose work holds a fearless beauty. Never static, always bold: her canvases are immediately recognisable as her own, paradoxically due to her continuous exploration of style.
During the 1970s her work portrayed war, destruction and redemption through a muted palette, packing a powerful punch. Having explored this narrative she turned to colour laden canvases in the 1980s and 1990s, depicting scenes from a personal mythology and the joy she felt for her native Yorkshire Dales.  Her final works in the 2000s are both abstract and figurative: denisons are etched into blocks of impasto paint, runes to be deciphered by the viewer.
“Drawing stands like the mountains, the rest is like passing weather”
Sonia Lawson
View a selection of work:-
The First of England, oil on canvas 1994
SONIA LAWSON
SONIA LAWSON