Editing Nina Hamnett (section)

== Flamboyant lifestyle ==
[[File:The Little Tea Party Nina Hamnett and Roald Kristian 1915 16.jpg|thumb|''The Little Tea Party'' (1915–16) by [[Walter Sickert]] depicts Hamnett and her husband.]]
Flamboyantly unconventional, and openly [[bisexual]], Hamnett once danced nude on a Montparnasse café table just for the "hell of it".  She drank heavily, was sexually promiscuous, and kept numerous lovers and close associations within the artistic community. Very quickly, she became a well-known bohemian personality throughout Paris and modelled for many artists. Her reputation soon reached back to London, where for a time, she went to work making or decorating fabrics, clothes, murals, furniture, and rugs at the [[Omega Workshops]], which was directed by [[Roger Fry]], [[Vanessa Bell]], and [[Duncan Grant]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://library.vicu.utoronto.ca/exhibitions/bloomsbury/omega.htm|title=Omega Workshops|website=library.vicu.utoronto.ca}}</ref>

Her artistic creations were widely exhibited during World War I, including at the Royal Academy in London as well as the ''[[Salon d'Automne]]'' in Paris. Back in England, she taught at the [[Westminster Technical Institute]] from 1917 to 1918.<ref name=":0"/> After Kristian left, she took up with another free spirit, composer [[E. J. Moeran]].

From the mid-1920s until the end of World War II, the area known as [[Fitzrovia]] was London's main Bohemian artistic centre. The place took its name from the popular [[Fitzroy Tavern]] on the corner of Charlotte and Windmill Streets that formed the area's centre. Home of the café life in Fitzrovia, it was Hamnett's favourite hangout as well as that of her friend from her home town, [[Augustus John]], and later another Welshman, the poet [[Dylan Thomas]].