Sketchbook of Lucy M Wiles -renown SA artist

Born in SA 1921. Her biggest commissions were paintings for all the Safmarine refrigeration ships, and flower studies for every room in the golf estate Fancourt, in George. Her paintings have now also spread to all corners of the world.

When she moved to the Western Cape, Lucy’s work flowed out into flower studies, Cape Dutch houses, Knysna forest scenes, boats on the lagoon, and later on studies of children, mostly the charming little urchins of the streets of Knysna. After turning 50 Lucy always added a little Transkei pig to her signature, to mark her half century, and acknowledge her roots. In her later years she travelled in Italy, Greece, Israel , the East and finally in China, which she visited four times in her 80’s, so obsessed she became with it.

When she was 86 she moved to a retirement village in Port Alfred, where she painted up to three weeks before her death in 2008. She then exhibited her work in The Wiles Gallery, Bathurst, owned by her daughter, artist Jane Wiles, who collected and seld the work of W G Wiles , Brian Wiles, Lucy Wiles and herself.