Trudie Wilson is an interdisciplinary Fine Artist predominately working on the Isle of Wight. Her work is derived from place and landscape and she enjoys encouraging others to spend time creatively in the biosphere reserve. She has extensive experience working with others and frequently manages multiple creative projects involving people of all ages. You will often find her out on the coastline, walking the landscape or in her studio where she also makes Wight Paint handmade watercolours.
Artist statement:
Being out in the landscape is fundamental to my practice. The direct experience of raw, elemental environments deeply informs my work. I am inspired by exploring the natural world through walking and by the sciences of palaeontology, geology, and ecology all offering different but complementary understandings of place. These interactions with the land shape the way I see and interpret the spaces I move through, and I aim to reflect this in my work. I also enjoy sharing these experiences through my socially engaged practice, working with both groups and individuals and through making watercolours.
Exhibitions & Works
2025 | Making an Island, collaborative film with Dominka Baerova – current
2025 | Open Studios exhibition – Quay Arts, Pod I & Edges of a Landscape
2025 | Documentation – mural Appley Seafront – current
2024 | Solo Exhibition Between the Sea and the Sky, & artist talk Quay Arts Isle of Wight
2024 | Speaker at Earths Canvas conference Geological society Burlington house
2024 | DYCP – Island pigments as artist material
2024 | Diverse Capacities Southampton University, exhibition of works.
2024 | Documentation and film maker for East Cowes Conservation and innovation mural.
2024 | Painter of the East Cowes Conservation and innovation mural
2023 | DYCP – arts council funded project, Island pigments
2023 | Diverse Capacities Southampton University
2023 | AONB- Prospectus design
2022 | Creative Biosphere Exhibition, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight
2021 | Dinosaur Isle in 101 Fossils- designer & illustrator
2021 | Palaeo Doors – design and painting – Dinosaur Isle museum Isle of Wight
2021 | The Landscape of Fossil Hunting – short film – shown at the Geological Society conference
2020 | Vectaerovenator inpopunatis – reconstruction, working with southampton university.
2020 | Looking out from lockdown – curator and designer digital work , Independent Arts
2020 | Islesolation gallery – curator and designer digital work, Independent Arts
2020 | Notable Newport – designer and painter, public work , Independent Arts Isle of Wight
2020 | Island Heritage colouring book – Illustrator & Designer, Independent Arts Isle of Wight
2020 | Creative Chronicle 4 issues – Illustrator and Designer, Independent Arts
2019 | Through Her Eyes – drawings as part of a film and dance project, Bristol, Neoteric Dance company
2018 | More questions than answers – MA show Chichester University
2017 | 33 – BA show University of Chichester
Residency
2021 – 2022 Creative Biosphere year long artists residency, Isle of Wight
Community & Projects
2025 | Ceramics technician – Quay Arts, (ongoing)
2024 | Workshop delivery for John Hansard Gallery as part of “A Pocket Full of Sand”
2024 | Workshop delivery for Quay Arts
2024 | Perspective, photography project with Artworks & Iow Youth Justice Service
2024 | Workshop delivery for National Landscapes IOW
2024 | Creative practitioner – Independent Arts IOW
2024 | Ceramics technician – Quay Arts, (ongoing)
2023 | Blue Plaques Project – ran workshops to create works and curated exhibition, Independent Arts Isle of Wight
2023 | Wavelength – delivery in ACE funded arts and science project with Independent Arts
2023 | Creative Club, Young peoples arts award program- programming and delivery
2023 | Young creatives, young peoples art education- program and delivery
2023 | Supporting Young Minds, Independent Arts – delivering Arts Award sessions.
2023 | Mindful Moments, delivering and programming workshops supporting wellbeing through creativity.
2022 | Creative Biosphere Exhibition – ran workshops to create works and curated our area of the exhibition, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight
2022 | First Marks Exhibition – ran workshops to create works and curated exhibition, Independent Arts Isle of Wight
2022 | Reconnect- creative practitioner, Independent Arts Isle of Wight,
2022 | Creative Club, Young peoples arts award program- program and delivery
2022 | Young creatives, young peoples art education- program and delivery
2021 | Picture play – delivery of arts sessions to young children, Independent Arts.
2019 | Portfolio – art and mental health project, Independent Arts Isle of Wight
2019 | Celebrating age – ran creative workshops in residential homes to create works.
2019 | Mindfullness and soulfulness exhibit – assisted curation and ran workshops in residential homes to create works.
Photograph Maria Bell 2024