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Denise Wyllie is an independent painter-printmaker with vast experience in painting and printmaking. She is currently painting profusely and creating silkscreens. 

‘Painting enables me to capture light play and nature’s energy with lively brush marks. Printmaking frees me to explore experimental colour combinations. My life has changed, and I am now able to express positive energy without being shy about using bright colours’.

Wyllie makes many versions of an edition, varying the printed layers of ink with different hand-drawn stencils to create different moods. Wyllie is mesmerized by nature’s unrestrained abundance.

Denise Wyllie has an Honours degree from Kingston School of Art and four impressive postgraduate printmaking qualifications: Brighton College of Art etching and screenprinting with Terence Gravett, Central School of Art with Norman Ackroyd & David Gluck specialising in etching and screenprinting, a Masters at Wimbledon School of Art specialising in screenprinting. She went on to do screenprintmaking and lithography Research at The Slade School of Fine Art with Prof Barto Dos Santos & Stanley Jones.

Being an expert in many printmaking processes, her printmaking has been exhibited widely in important museums and galleries in the UK and internationally. Her prints are held in 14 international museum collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum, UK.



Recent solo exhibitions

Secret Gardens Painting & Prints, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India 2022

Denise Wyllie: Gardens of Paradise, Vyhod Media-Centre Petrozavodsk Russia 2020

Denise Wyllie: The English Collection, Palace of the Arts, Kondopoga, Russia 2019

Karelia Dreaming: Petrozavodsk University, Russia 2019

Wyllie & Yoshie Uchida- 2 printmakers, Niosya, Tokyo, Japan 2018

Selected Mixed exhibitions

Chelsea Physic Garden 350th year, Bankside gallery, 2023

Thinking for Printing Printmakers Council Bankside 2023

London Original Print Fair RE, Somerset House, London 2023/2

Ukraine Humanitarian Fundraiser, Bankside raised £23,858

5th Global Print, Portugal 2021

Novossibirsk Graphic Art Triennial. State Museum, Russia 2021

11th International Printmaking Biennial Douro Portugal 2022

5th Global Print Portugal 2021

The Möhkönvirta Contemporary Art Museum in Finland 2021

Killer Cat Exhibition Denise Wyllie London Drawings & animated stills Theatre  Vyhod Media Centre Russia 2021

RWA, Bristol 168 Open Exhibition 2020-2021

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2019

The Masters, Bankside 2016, 2018, 2019

National Original Bankside 2019

Fête de l’estampe, France & Europe & Wyllie’s studio in London UK 2018, 2019, 2020

Honoured invited International Printmaker, Estampa de Resilienca Galeria Guatibiri, Puerto Rico 2018

Tokyo Mini-Print Triennial Tokyo Japan 2018

Poetry of Place Printmakers UK & Japan curated by Denise Wyllie & Rebecca Monks, Bakers Street, London 2017

France, UK Japan- 8 Printmakers, Gallery Sugino, Tokyo Japan 2017

Awagami International Print, Tokushima Japan 2017