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The Unstoppable Rose Wylie
Left alone and unconstrained, the British artist has painted throughout the pandemic.
The artist Rose Wylie at her home and studio in Kent, England, surrounded by her wild, rambling garden. Credit.Sam Wright
By Tess Thackara
April 22, 2021, 5:50 p.m. ET
The artist Rose Wylie came of age in austere postwar England, a member of the so-called Silent Generation, but she doesn’t quite fit the mold. While she leads a relatively frugal and hermetic life that exemplifies the resourcefulness her contemporaries are known for, silent she is not. At 86, Wylie paints freewheeling pictures, often with words loosely scrawled across them, that are gloriously big and crude, and full of