Charles Mayes Wigg 1889 - 1969

Charles Mayes Wigg grew up in Watton and Cromer in Norfolk and was educated at Gresham's School. In 1911 he arrived at the Norwich School of Art and later studied with Frank Spenlove-Spenlove at his Yellow Door School of Art in Beckenham, Kent.

During the First World War, Wigg served with the British Army In 1916, he was invalided out of the army with severe leg injuries, and was left with a disability for the rest of his life. Returning to his career as an artist and illustrator. For many years lived and painted in a house- boat on the Norfolk Broads. Wigg married his mother's nurse, but this was disastrous for his artistic career. His new wife prevented him from painting, He died at St Mary's Hospital, Eastbourne.

Wigg was a landscape artist working mostly in watercolour with only occasional paintings in oils. The Norfolk coast and scenery of the Broads gave him the subjects for his work. He exhibited regularly at the Norwich Art Circle between 1909 and 1936, at the Royal Academy in 1915 and also with the British Water-colour Society.

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