Rose Wylie in her studio. The artist Rose Wylie (b.1934)came of age in austere postwar England, a member of the so-called Silent Generation, but she doesn’t quite fit the mold. While she leads a relatively frugal and hermetic life that exemplifies the resourcefulness her contemporaries are known for, silent she is not. At 89, Wylie paints freewheeling pictures, often with words loosely scrawled across them, that are gloriously big and crude, and full of a certain dry British humor that sends up

"'Why is she in the Tate? Why is she anywhere?'... It was such good writing." Rose Wylie talks to Stewart Lee about dealing with her critics. Only Artists: http://bbc.in/2Ap1onu | BBC Radio 4