Rebel artist Rose Wylie at 91: still painting till 3am

The Royal Academy is billing Rose Wylie as a "rebel artist" and, at 91, she still finds plenty to rebel against. Astonishingly, hers is the first solo show by a British woman to occupy all the academy's main galleries. Her giant canvases — bold colours, painted texts and wild juxtapositions — have been likened to Jean-Michel Basquiat and Philip Guston, but she refuses to be pigeonholed and dislikes art that is "up your arse".

Wylie lives in a low-slung 17th-century house in Sittingbourne, Kent, where jasmine threads through the kitchen ceiling and bouquets of dead flowers crowd a room. The house is full of objects: a ceramic horse from James Norton, plates of petrified cakes and logs burning in an open fireplace.

She keeps the place ready for visitors, enjoys clothes as "the nearest people get to painting and sculpture in their everyday lives," and was recently photographed there by Juergen Teller for a Loewe campaign.

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