Lucy Wilis
About Lucy Wilis biography 1954 Born 1972 - 1975 Trained: Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford. 1976 - 1978 Lived in Greece and established an etching workshop on the island of Syros, affiliated to The Aegean School of Art. 1980 Opened Moorland House Workshop in Somerset, running residential painting and printmaking courses until 1986. 1981 Travelled to Italy on a Bockingford International Watercolour Award. 1986 First of ten solo exhibitions at the Chris Beetles Gallery, London. 1987 Commissioned to paint in Northern Portugal. Commissioned to paint in Guernsey for the Guernsey Tourist Board. 1988 Wrote and Illustrated Light, How to See it, How to Paint it published by Cassells. 1990 Tutored painting group in North Yemen for The Artist magazine. 1991 Tutored painting group in Southern India for The Artist magazine. Became artist in residence at Shepton Mallet Prison, Somerset (until 1993). 1992 Won the BP Portrait Award at...