Vincent Wilson

Vincent’s works evoke rather than describe the landscape. He spends hours sketching on the moor and by the sea, returns to his studio and reinvents the scenes from his imagination, using fragments of torn paper to create the shapes then paint and ink to explore the different textures, moods and muted colours of the landscape. These have also been translated into the medium of oil or etching to give a slightly different view of the images. The materials play their part in the image. To quote Vincent: In my landscape work I seek to express more forcibly than mere description would allow. The rhythms, colours, textures are taken from the landscape but organised in such a way as to emphasise the two-dimensional design which is to me as important in the final image as the actual subject – for art is art, it is not reality.

Vincent Wilson has been exhibiting his work extensively in Wales and England and also in Germany and Brittany. As a student he was represented in Young Artists from the North of England” at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (1955) and later took part in three Welsh Arts Council exhibitions which toured Wales.

He moved to Cornwall in 1962 and became a full member of both the Newlyn Society of Artists and the Penwith Society of Arts. In 1995 he was elected as a member of the Devon Guild of Craftsmen (Printmaker).

Vincent has had many one-man exhibitions, the most notable being those at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery (1979), the Coach House Gallery, Guernsey (1990 and 1993), the Penwith Gallery, St Ives (1992), Falmouth Art Gallery (1995) and St Anne’s College, Oxford (1994). Last year he was invited to take part in a Millenium Exhibition at Falmouth Art Gallery, “20 Years of Contemporary Art: 1980 – 2000”, and ion an International Millenium Exhibition at Celle, Germany.

He has exhibited at the Thackeray Gallery, London, the Beaux Arts Gallery in Bath and at the Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin. Currently his work can be seen at the Gagliardi Gallery, London, the New Craftsman Gallery, St Ives, the Brook Gallery, Budleigh Salterton, the Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey and the Penwith Gallery, St Ives. Works have also been shown at the R.A. Summer Exhibitions, the Royal West of England Academy Open Exhibitions and the Royal Cambrian Academy.

In 1992 a set of etchings was purchased by the British, Foreign and Commonwealth Office for placing in various embassies abroad. Works have also been purchased by the Victoria and Albert Museum, Devon County Council, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Surrey Education Committee and the City of Celle, Germany. May works are in private collections in Britain and abroad.