Wilfrid Wood

Wilfrid Wood is a London-based multi-disciplinary artist specialising in portraiture. Having previously made eyeballs and two-headed fish on the satirical television show ‘Spitting Image’, his practice has evolved from sculpture, to drawn portraits, to paintings made from urban and rural landscapes. Quirky, honest and dynamic, these works, in Wilfrid’s words, continue to explore his interest in ‘characters, and getting a feeling for what someone - or something - is like.’

Wilfrid’s artistic influences are broad-ranging, spanning outsider and self-taught artists, the portraits of Alice Neel and the work of American contemporary landscape painter Louis Dodd. Like her, Wilfrid primarily works on a small scale, painting in watercolour and oil exclusively from life. He says; 'I’m no good at inventing things. It’s about making it interesting - whether its a car, a person or a bunch of eggs.'

Wilfrid graduated from Central Saint Martins in 1991 with a degree in graphic design. He initially worked in publishing and graphics before moving to ‘Spitting Image’. Since then, he has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, at venues including Copeland Gallery and Hampstead Art Society, both in London, Colette, Paris, SangSangMaDang, Seoul, and Volume Gallery, Berlin. Most recently, his work was selected for the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London (2026). He also teaches life drawing for various organisations including London Drawing. Wilfrid currently lives and works in Hackney, east London.

We are proud to present new work by Wilfrid in our upcoming group exhibition And Other Animals. Contact us to request a catalogue.