‘Life Lived’ is a retrospective celebrating the life work of artist Wendy Winfield. Winfield’s art is figurative and takes inspiration from a study of motifs including landscape, figure composition and still life. Her vast body of work comprises of oil and watercolour works, etchings and drawings. Bold colour and expressive gesture central to her practice.

‘The Life of a Woman through Drawings’, is a series of over 60 drawings of one woman over a 20+ year period, from 1990 to the last drawing in 2017.

I have a particular interest in figurative drawing, and expressively drawing women. This series shows the restrictions for women working in ‘non-professional’ or craft based environments, within a male-dominated world. ‘The Life of a Woman through Drawings’, spanning over 20 years, highlights the inequality that still exists today.”

- Wendy Winfield on ‘The Life of a Woman through Drawings’.

An exhibition celebrating the life of artist Wendy Winfield and her remarkable series of drawings depicting the same life model over a 25 year period.

The show manages to capture the life of the model through her changing body over those years. Wendy chose 60 drawings in chronological order - and could remember the circumstance of each and every one and they are embodied in her drawings.

The model dictated the mood and pose of the drawings, depending on her relationship or marriage status, pregnancy and birth of the baby and life’s highs or lows - to which Wendy responded.

Wendy’s sensitive and honest drawing style effortlessly captures the mood of the moment. She lived locally and graduated from Kingston Art School in 1953. Born in 1933 Wendy passed away early in 2023 but her wish was that the exhibition should continue and so with the help of Wendy’s family and friends, RuptureXIBIT presents this retrospective. In tribute to Wendy, this whole studio takeover includes paintings and drawings spanning Wendy’s career.