Painters
Since the beginning, we have always had more painters among the Academicians than any other discipline. Today, over 30 RAs are painters, including Tess Jaray, Bill Jacklin, Barbara Rae and Jenny Saville.
Featured Painter
Rose Wylie RA
Rose Wylie is a painter. She studied at Folkestone and Dover School of Art, and at the Royal College of Art. All of her work is centred on painting and drawing. Wylie represented Great Britain in Women To Watch, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C, 2010. Her first retrospective exhibition was held at the Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, 2012, and was followed by her BP Spotlight exhibition at Tate Britain, 2013, which led to museum shows in Philadelphia; Tonsberg, Norway; Wolfsberg, Germany; Tal R’s Project Space, Copenhagen; and the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin.
In 2011, she was given the Paul Hamlyn Award and in 2014, she won the John Moores Painting Prize.
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I think the beauty and excitement of painting is its potential to present a world for the viewer to inhabit, without instructions as to how to negotiate and understand it.
Fiona Rae RA
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