Rose Wylie Charts Her Own Course
At 88, Rose Wylie still cherishes the idea that to be an artist is to defy convention. Take her studio, on the upper floor of her cottage in Kent, ...
At 88, Rose Wylie still cherishes the idea that to be an artist is to defy convention. Take her studio, on the upper floor of her cottage in Kent, a couple of hours from London, where she's lived for 53 years. The floor is covered in old, screwed-up newspapers, which she uses to clean her brushes. There's a huge mound of discarded furniture and paint tins halfway down one side of the room. Wonky cabinet shelves groan with detritus, including the box that housed an Easter egg Wylie once painted. 'It's source material,' the artist says in a cut-glass English accent as she sips a cup of tea.