CYRIL WILSON S.S.A
(1911 – 2003)
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Mixed Media.
16 ½” x 11 ½” (419 x 292mm)
Signed & dated 1974 IMAGE
Cyril Wilson
was a painter and teacher. He was born
at High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire and studied art in Reading. He then went on to teach at New Abbey College
of Art Summer School for many years. He
exhibited at the Society of Scottish Artists as a Member and also at the Royal
Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours, the Royal Glasgow Institute of
the Fine Arts, the Royal Scottish Academy and abroad. One-man shows included Dumfries Arts Festival
in 1983 and 1986 and Compass Gallery, Glasgow in 1988. Two years later he was included in The
Compass Contribution at Tramway, Glasgow.
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and Dundee Art Gallery hold
his work. Wilson lived from 1948 near
Dumfries in Scotland, but spent part of each year in Ibiza, off the Spanish
coast. John Davies Fine Paintings showed
work by Wilson at The Gallery in Cork Street in 2005.
