Rose Wylie

Rose Wylie’s pictures are bold, occasionally chaotic, often unpredictable, and always fiercely independent, without being domineering. Wylie works directly on to large unprimed, un-stretched canvases and her inspiration comes from many and varied sources, most of them popular and vernacular.

The cutout techniques of collage and the framing devices of film, cartoon strips and Renaissance panels inform her compositions and repeated motifs. Often working from memory, she distils her subjects into succinct observations, using text to give additional emphasis to her recollections.

In 2011, she was given the Paul Hamlyn Award and in 2014, she won the John Moore's Painting Prize. In 2015 she won The Charles Wollaston Award for the ‘most distinguished work’ in the RA Summer Exhibition for her painting Herr Rehlinger In White Armour that we are delighted to be exhibiting as part of her exhibition at Chapter.