WILSON, Cyril

Cyril Wilson (1911–2002) studied art in Reading and went on to teach at New Abbey College of Art Summer School for many years. Exhibited at SSA as a member, RSW, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, RSA and abroad. One-man shows included Dumfries Arts Festival in 1983 and 1986 and Compass Gallery, Glasgow, in 1988. Two years later he was included in The Compass Contribution at Tramway, Glasgow. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and Dundee Art Gallery hold his work. Wilson lived from 1948 near Dumfries, in Scotland, but spent part of each year in Ibiza, off the Spanish coast. John Davies Fine Paintings showed work by Wilson at The Gallery in Cork Street in 2005.