We love the art of Rose Wylie, a product of the ultimate slowburn career. Based in Kent, she
famously put her career on hold to raise a family, then completed her training and started to
receive international recognition at the age of 75, winning the prestigious John Moore Prize in
2014, aged 80. Rose creates extremely large paintings on unstretched, unprimed canvas, giving
an artless, ‘undrawn’ quality. Naïve, outrageous and exhilarating, we love the fresh youthfulness of
her paintings, showing that perspective comes with attitude, not age. Rose says “painting is both
horrifically demanding and exciting. When it’s going badly, it’s very depressing – it’s not fun. But
then you get into it and you can’t stop. It’s compulsive. If it weren’t there, life would be very dull.”
