* CYRIL WILSON (BRITISH 1911 - 2002), BEDOUIN

oil on canvas, signed and dated '81 framed image size 99cm x 86cm, overall size 109cm x 96cm Note: Painter and teacher, born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. He 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, Royal Scottish Academy (41 paintings between 1951 and 1974) 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. The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, St Andrews University, Gracefield Arts Centre, Aberdeen Art Gallery 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. Cyril Wilson followed Cecile Walton as President of the Dumfries and Galloway Fine Arts Society in 1954. He had been President of the Forces Art Club in Cairo, 1941-1947. Cyril Wilson was also a respected healer.