The artist who found herself a star in her eighth and ninth decades allows us into her inner sanctum ahead of her show at David Zwirner in L.A.
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. “I don’t want to be caught up in the idea that you must tidy up, which is what you get as a child: ‘Clear the cupboard, clean your paintbox, your drawers are a mess.’ When my paint tin is empty, I just throw it on the pile. Sometimes, if you have a very clean, sterile working situation, it takes time to keep it like that, and when you come in you don’t start messing it up.
Downstairs there is a severe portrait of Emily Maitlis, host of the BBC show Newsnight. The point is, Wylie says, that these are simply the images that are around in the present day. “In antiquity, they made a mosaic that had a wine glass, it had women, it had curtains,” Wylie says. “You respond to what you see.”For most of her life, the world responded to Wylie’s work with indifference.
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