The figures in Rose Wylie’s paintings can be cartoonish but they are underpinned by close observation and curiosity: Wylie is as interested in the quirks of bodies and faces as she is in pop culture and her forms are carefully conceived (28 February–19 April). Wylie, who studied anatomical drawing as well as figurative painting at the Folkestone and Dover School of Art in the 1950s, draws every day and much of her painting is based on drawings. The show also follows the evolution of her technique over the last four decades. As well as including the colourful works for which she is best known, such as paintings of scenes from films or of images from newspapers and the internet, the exhibition presents four recent single-colour paintings of animals, which Wylie made by thickly applying paint directly on to canvas with her finger.
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