...It took me a while to come back to the palm trees in her painting Cuban Scene, Smoke (2016) and compare them with the Californian palms David Hockney paints. Hockney’s palms are more precise, but do they really say more about the essence of a palm than Wylie’s bursts of broad-brushed leaves? Painting is a wonderful, magic thing. That is why young children love doing it. Wylie has rediscovered in maturity the freedom with which we painted when we were kids. Make a dog. Make a duck. Make a V1 flying bomb. ...Tellingly, one of the most accomplished is also one of the earliest in the show. Tree Canterbury, painted in 1997, has a subtly shaded blue trunk and a deep green spatter of leaves. Suddenly it is clear where Wylie is coming from. The simplified but authentic eye for nature here is what got me making comparisons with Hockney. Wylie, however, has freed herself from the rules and traditions to which Hockney is fiercely loyal. She has escaped into the world of children’s art. Compared with this almost careful early work, she now paints with total freedom from any law of god, man or the Royal Academy. [https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/nov/29/rose-wylie-review-quack-quack-serpentine-gallery-london#img-1]