Carol Wyatt

Background

She studied at the Wimbledon School of Art 1966-1967 and Camberwell School of Art 1968-1971

Career

She was awarded the Lord Carron Prize by Sir Tom Monnington the then President of The Royal Academy of Art. She spent a postgraduate year in Florence, Italy where she had a successful Exhibition at the Arnacci Gallery Florence of her paper cut-outs in 1972.

She has taught at various art schools, particularly Camberwell School of Art and Saint Martin's School of Art at graduate level and at Edinburgh College of Art at postgraduate level.

The artist is featured in numerous collections worldwide that include Arts Council of Great Britain, De Beers, The Cocoa Merchants, Unilever, Save and Prosper PLC, Tate and Lyle and various other company collections. New Walk Museum Gulbenkian Purchase Award, Towner Gallery and important collections in England, United States, Italy, France and Switzerland.

Various mixed and one person shows soon led to the artist's first one-person museum tour in 1980-1981 culminating at Gainsborough's House, Sudbury. In 1988, the artist was included in The Romantic Tradition in Contemporary British Painting with John Bellany, Alan Davie, Christopher le Brun, Therese Oulton, Michael Porter and Lance Smith touring Spanish Museums which was curated by Keith Patrick.

Her work is much connected with theatre and opera, referring to Bel Canto, Debussy and Tarkovsky. She worked with the late Tito Gobbi on sets and costumes for his opera summer schools in Florence at the Villa Schifanoia. She instigated the revival of De Chirico's sets and costumes for Bellini's Puritani for the Maggio Musicale. She continues her work as a fine artist as well as respected theatrical set and costume designer. She is the mother of BBC award winning composer Lucius de Tracy Kelly.