Glory with Fame

Wylie is now in her 92nd year, and this much-anticipated exhibition at the Royal Academy celebrates an artist who has been flying in the face of orthodoxies ever since she picked up a paintbrush in her early fifties. She paints the grotesque and the banal in equal measure and with equal irreverence, resulting in wilfully raw and comic paintings that somehow get to the heart of the matter. Wylie is now in her 92nd year, and this much-anticipated exhibition at the Royal Academy celebrates an artist who has been flying in the face of orthodoxies ever since she picked up a paintbrush in her early fifties. She paints the grotesque and the banal in equal measure and with equal irreverence, resulting in wilfully raw and comic paintings that somehow get to the heart of the matter. Wylie is now in her 92nd year, and this much-anticipated exhibition at the Royal Academy celebrates an artist who has been flying in the face of orthodoxies ever since she picked up a paintbrush in her early fifties. She paints the grotesque and the banal in equal measure and with equal irreverence, resulting in wilfully raw and comic paintings that somehow get to the heart of the matter. Wylie is now in her 92nd year, and this much-anticipated exhibition at the Royal Academy celebrates an artist who has been flying in the face of orthodoxies ever since she picked up a paintbrush in her early fifties. She paints the grotesque and the banal in equal measure and with equal irreverence, resulting in wilfully raw and comic paintings that somehow get to the heart of the matter. Wylie is now in her 92nd year, and this much-anticipated exhibition at the Royal Academy celebrates an artist who has been flying in the face of orthodoxies ever since she picked up a paintbrush in her early fifties. She paints the grotesque and the banal in equal measure and with equal irreverence, resulting in wilfully raw and comic paintings that somehow get to the heart of the matter.