Rose Wylie: ‘It’s very, very fragile where a painting ends. All the time it sits on a precarious edge’.

The article focuses on British artist Rose Wylie, who, after a late-career resurgence beginning in the 2000s, became the first female painter to exhibit in the main galleries of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Known for her large-scale, figurative paintings that blend diverse cultural references—from art history to popular media—Wylie emphasizes the primacy of the "picture" as an autonomous entity, distinct from literal illustration or interpretation. Her creative process involves extensive drawing, embracing spontaneity alongside careful decision-making, and exploring the physicality of paint. The exhibition at the Royal Academy features over 90 works, highlighting her poetic transformation of reality and her engagement with memory, environment, and visual excitement. [Extracted from the article]