Patricia Wiles Art

Patricia Wiles was born in London in 1922. She was a renowned wildlife artist, specializing in watercolors. She graduated from Rhodes University, South Africa and was stationed at Signal Hill, Cape Town, during World War II as a radar operator. She studied further at the Slade School of Art in London with her husband, Paul Wiles (1918-1997), who shared her passion for wildlife paintings and sculpture. Patricia Wiles' art has been exhibited in South Africa, America and Britain, and features in many international private collections.

A Limited Portfolio of Signed Proofs from Watercolour Sketches of Wildlife by Patricia Wiles

Four signed wildlife lithographs on stiff paper, each measuring 500 x 350 mm and numbered 119/850, and contained in a printed kraft folder. The pictures show a nyala ewe drinking while her lamb suckles, two cheetahs in a semi-arid environment with springboks in the background, a leopard crouching on a branch (pictured here) and a zebra foal with oxpeckers on its back.