Susan Wilson: Wild London

SUSAN WILSON

SUSAN WILSON Wild London

10 October – 2 November 2018 Monday – Friday 10.00 – 5.30 Saturday 11.00 – 2.00

Browse & Darby 19 Cork Street London W1S 3LP Tel: 020 7734 7984 Fax: 0207851 6650 email: art@browseanddarby.co.uk www. browseanddarby.co.uk

Wild London In the summer the Scrubs fill with joyous silly games- people walk like crabs on all fours, bounce along as if on pogo sticks, play American Rounders in full kit, breeches, caps and the right shoes, then in tiny glades you can find a man playing a cello, or a bagpiper. There are butterflies of all kinds, thick in the thistles, bees, many wild flowers, vetch, daisy, cornflower, lupins, lace cap, and cow parsley. You know, despite being in Central London, you are in an English meadow, a watery marsh come January. I want to help save it, keep it poetic, wild and full of the delight it gives to all who roam there, or go to pick blackberries on a summers night with their children.

All winter I am out in every kind of weather, even in the dusk and early dark, with dogs and friends tramping through mud, rain, ice and snow. The lanes fill up with bog, and deep puddles. Few people are out. The parakeets fly low, streaming across the wild, now purpled brown blackberry tangles and the tall golden ochre grasses and seeds. Its a twice daily tramp and I note the colours and the clouds, which are never the same. The land is slightly higher than surrounding ground and the skies are stormy and magnificent. I draw in tiny books and memorise what I see. It can take a while to warm up when back inside but this inspires the work in the studio.

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Persimmons in Winter at Pignano, oil on board, 24 x 34 inches 1/2 Snow in the Scrubs at Sunset, 2017, oil on linen, 50 x 30 inches Beware of Pity III, 2017-18, oil on linen, 36 x 24 inches Buddleia; Do not blame me, 2017, 30 x 24 inches May in Bloom (After Hockney), 2017, oil on board, 17 x 10 1/2 inches Last summer when the tower caught fire, 2017, oil on linen, 50 x 36 inches Camellias in Ladbroke Grove, 2017, oil on canvas, 19 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches For E.A.D./My Unknown Grandmother, oil on board, 25 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches Pignano Cypress, Tuscany Winter, 2017, oil on board, 40 x 13 inches Pignano Cypress in Tuscan Winter, 2016, oil on board, 52 x 13 inches Quinces, 2018, oil on linen, 6 x 10 inches Oranges in deep winter, 2017, oil on linen, 9 x 10 inches Scrubs at Michelmas, 2017, oil on linen, 12 x 10 inches Quinces at Café de Paris, 2018, oil on linen, 9 x 8 inches Flores runs away through the Scrubs in Winter, 2017, oil on board, 24 x 40 inches Beware of Pity; Stefan Zweig II, oil on linen, 30 x 24 inches Luisa Fazio wears Comme des Garçons, 2016, oil on linen, 50 x 30 inches Hyacinth, 2017, oil on linen, 8 x 10 inches Julia Bowles dressed for Notting Hill, 2016-18, oil on linen, 66 x 26 inches For EAD, 2018, oil on board, 25 x 14 1/2 inches Faust’s Forbidden Fruit, 2018, oil on board, 11 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches Flores with my worn Fausto Santini Shoes, 2016-17, oil and linen, 28 x 36 inches Luisa Fazio, 2016, oil on canvas, 10 x 8 inches Michelmas in the Little Scrubs, 2017, oil on linen, 30 x 24 inches Irises, 2018, oil on linen, 21 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches May in Blossom in The Little Scrubs, 2017, oil on linen, 36 x 28 inches Sta Margharita di Ligure, Paper Bag & Quince, 2017, oil on linen, 12 x 14 inches Storm Doris rampages in, 2017, oil on linen, 30 x 50 inches To My Unknown Grandmother Edith Dyson II, oil on board, 28 x 21 1/2 inches Wild Edgelands, Flores in the Scrubs, 2017, oil on linen, 50 x 30 inches The Scrubs with the Ghost of Nero, 2017, oil on linen, 36 x 50 inches Quince & Bread, 2017, oil on linen, 10 x 12 inches

Selected Solo Exhibitions 2000 Katherine Mansfield Short Stories, Browse & Darby, London

(commissioned for 2000 publication: Folio Society) 2005 New Work, Browse & Darby, London 2009 A Still Life is a Theatre, Browse & Darby, London 2010 The Anguish of Departure, Jonathon Grant Galleries, Auckland 2013 Like A Roman Goddess, Coll & Cortes, London 2014 Fauna and Flores, Browse & Darby 2018 The Pah Homestead, Auckland

Jane Roberts Gallery, Paris Selected Group Exhibitions 2005, 17 Small is Beautiful, Flowers East/Central, London 2006 The Discerning Eye, London, selected by Baroness Helena Kennedy QC & Laura Gascoigne

The John Moores Prize, long listed 2018, Liverpool 2007, 16, 18 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London

The Duneen Collection, Angela Flowers, West Cork, Ireland

Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, Prize winner 2008 ,12 Threadneedle Art Prize, Finalist 2009 Grove Women, Beverley Knowles Fine Art, London

London Art Fair, Islington, London 2013 Sketch Touring Exhibition of Artists sketchbooks, Rabley Drawing centre and Touring 2014 From Bomberg to Paula Rego, Southampton Art Gallery 2015, 17 Ruth Borchard Finalist Literature 2005 Laura Gascoigne, The Spectator 2008 Christopher Johnstone, The New Zealand Garden, (Random House) Richard Wolfe, The New Zealand Portrait, (Penguin) New Zealand & the Mediterranean Conference Florence paper, The Legacy of Italian Painters Katherine Mansfield Conference, University of London: Wilson describes the process of illustrating Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories for The Folio Society 2000 2009 Michael Peppiatt interview, A Still Life is a Theatre Penelope Jackson, Susan Wilson, The Pink House, UNO Magazine, New Zealand Public Collections Auckland Art Gallery NZ; The New Zealand Portrait Gallery, NZ; The Aigantighe Art Gallery, NZ; Auckland Museum, NZ; The Contemporary Art Society, Collection Focus Abengoa Hospital de Los Venerables Seville, ES; The National Trust, UK; New Hall College, Cambridge, UK;Oxford Brookes University, UK; Oriel College Oxford, UK; Paintings in Hospitals Collection, UK; Royal Academy Archives (sketchbook from Richard Ford Award), UK; Rochdale Museum and Art Gallery, UK; Tauranga Art Gallery, NZ; The Usher Gallery, Lincoln, UK; Wallace Arts Trust, British Museum Dept Prints & Drawings

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