Details

First Name

Victoria
Last Name

Wylie
Username

victoria-wylie
Website

http://www.VictoriaWylie.co.uk
Region

Angus
Disciplines

Painting
Themes

Abstract, Landscape

Statement

Statement

Victoria makes contemporary abstract landscape paintings from her home studio in Angus. Her paintings are a celebration of the natural world. Exploring the wilderness of Scotland’s land and sea, and finding solitary moments surrounded by nature.

Horizon lines fascinate her. This comes from growing up close to the North Yorkshire Moors – the vast stretches of openness inform her work in many ways. Her paintings respond to the changing elements and the rhythm of the landscape as she explores the visual tensions that arise when sky meets sea meets land. The paintings are memories of these moments and while each artwork is a reflection from a particular place, they encompass numerous experiences – each painting lends a fragment of itself to the next.

Her work is bold, striking and atmospheric – she captures energy through playful mark-making and enjoys the serendipity that occurs as a result. Her connection with, and respect for the natural world is central to every mark she makes. This connection is something she hopes to share with others through her paintings.

Victoria graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art + Design with a BDes (Hons) in Constructed Textiles, specialising in Gobelin tapestry weaving. She went on to complete a Master of Fine Art. She has exhibited throughout Scotland and the rest of the UK and has artworks in private collections across the world.

http://www.VictoriaWylie.co.uk

@VictoriaWylieHale

Biography

Biography

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

Solo Exhibition, The Meffan, Forfar • (upcoming 2026)
Featured Artist, Greengallery  (upcoming 2024)
Edinburgh Art Fair, (upcoming 2024)
The Whitehouse Gallery, Kirkudbright
SSA 125th Annual Exhibition, The Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayr
Solo Exhibition, Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen. (Sept 2023).
Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen.
The Velvet Easel, Portobello, Edinburgh.
Greengallery, Buchlyvie, Stirlingshire.
Zenwalls Gallery, Peebles
Artisanand, Aberfeldy
FLOW – Visual Arts Scotland.
The Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead, London.
Eion Stewart Fine Art, Stonehaven.
The Meffan, Forfar.
The Weem Gallery, Pittenweem.
Eduardo Alessandro Studios, Broughty Ferry.
Dock Street Studios, Dundee
The Hour Image Gallery, Forfar.
Gallery48, Cromarty.
The Changing Room, Stirling.
Generator, Dundee.
The Park Gallery, Falkirk.
Mall Galleries, London.

PROJECT WORK:

In addition to her fine art practice Victoria also runs creative workshops for children and adults (EXPLORE PLAY CREATE). She also manages project and design work for clients and is a freelance designer with the Learning Team at V&A Dundee.

EDUCATION:

2002 – 2003: Master of Fine Art –Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee.
1994 – 1997: BDes (Honours) Constructed Textiles – Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art + Design, University of Dundee
1993 – 1994: B.Tec Diploma, Foundation Studies in Art and Design – York College of Further & Higher Education