Wyatt studied at the
Wimbledon School of Art during 1966 and 1967 and at the
Camberwell School of Art from 1968 to 1971. She was awarded the
Lord Carron Prize by Sir
Thomas Monnington, the then President of The
Royal Academy of Art. She spent a postgraduate year in
Florence, Italy where she had a successful Exhibition at the
Arnacci Gallery of her paper cut-outs in 1972. She has taught at various art schools, particularly
Camberwell School of Art and
Saint Martin's School of Art at graduate level and at the
Edinburgh College of Art at postgraduate level. Wyatt's work is featured in numerous collections including those of the
Arts Council of Great Britain,
De Beers, The Cocoa Merchants,
Unilever, Save and Prosper PLC,
Tate and Lyle and various other company collections.
New Walk Museum Gulbenkian Purchase Award,
Towner Gallery and important collections in
England, United States, Italy, France and Switzerland. Various mixed and one person shows soon led to Wyatt's first one-person museum tour in 1980–1981 culminating at Gainsborough's House, Sudbury. In 1988, her work was included in
The Romantic Tradition in Contemporary British Painting with
John Bellany,
Alan Davie,
Christopher le Brun,
Thérèse Oulton,
Michael Porter and Lance Smith which toured Spanish Museums and was curated by Keith Patrick. Her work is much connected with theatre and opera, referring to
Bel Canto,
Debussy and
Tarkovsky. She worked with the late
Tito Gobbi on sets and costumes for his opera summer schools in Florence at the
Villa Schifanoia. She instigated the revival of
De Chirico's sets and costumes for
Bellini's Puritani for the Maggio Musicale. She continues her work as a fine artist as well as respected theatrical set and costume designer. ==See also==