Wiles, W.G

A painter of seascapes, landscapes and occasionally portraits. Worked in oil, watercolour and pastel.

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Walter Gilbert Wiles

Born: 1875 Cambridge, England

Died: 1966 Knysna, Cape Province

A painter of seascapes, landscapes and occasionally portraits. Worked in oil, watercolour and pastel.

Studies: 1890 in France; 1911 in London.

Profile: 1918 an original committee member of the EPSFA. A member of the SA society of Artists. An ostrich farmer near Uitenhage, who began painting in watercolour in his spare time, later lived on Leisure Isle, Knysna. 1939 published a pamphlet entitled "Art-Its Spiritual meaning- an antidote to modernism". Son of the sculptor Henry Wiles. Brother of Frank Wiles, Father of Brian Wiles and Paul Wiles, and grandfather of Shayne Haysom.

Exhibitions: Participated in group exhibitions in SA; 1920 first of several solo exhibitions held in SA; 1924 British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, London; 1959 Pieter Wenning Gallery, Johannesburg, Wiles Group Exhibition.

Represented: Albany Museum, Grahamstown; Ann Bryant Gallery, East London; Durban Art Gallery; Julius Gordon Africana Centre, Riversdale; Pretoria Art Museum; Queenstown Municipal Collection; SA National Gallery, Cape Town; William Humphreys Art Gallery, Kimberley.

Public Commissions: 1930 Portrait of FP Mariot for the Port Elizabeth Technical College; 1947 several paintings of the Royal Tour to South Africa.