Denise Ballard Wyllie,

Works both independently and organises exhibitions with international artists groups in the UK, France, Russia, Japan.

Member of the Society of Scottish Artists since 2021, an Associate member RE – Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers 2021- now, Participant studio in Manifestampe’s French printmaking festival Fete de l’estampe  2018-2023,  Committee Member / Director the PMC (Printmakers Council UK) for 10 years, co-ordinator for Art-Contact Russia-UK 1992- 2022, Wyllie O Hagan artist partnership 2002 – 2018.

Her prints are held in 14 international museum collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum, UK.

Denise Wyllie has an Hons degree from Kingston School of Art and 4 impressive postgraduate printmaking qualifications; Brighton College of Art , Central School of Art,  Masters degree Wimbledon School of Art,  invited printmaking Research at The Slade School of Fine Art with Prof Barto Dos Santos & Stanley Jones MBE.

Wyllie’s focus is consistently landscape printmaking with forays into projects such as  Science-Art, a 2 year residency at a Cancer Research UK laboratory culminating in several artworks including a 42 meter screen print (DNA) artwork that hangs in The Royal Mint, and a 20m piece in which she championed cancer advocacy groups in the USA and UK.

Wyllie has project-managed and led mixed-funded urban outreach with multi-ethnic/ multi-religions groups in London, taught in printworkshops, computer graphics studios and lectured in art history, photography and life drawing.

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, 2023

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

Royal West of England Academy, Bristol Annual Open Exhibition 2020-2023

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- 2023

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