Joyce Wyatt RMS, SWA was born in 1924: she attended Hornsey Art School and then studied with Francis Hodge R.P. after a recommendation from Frank Salisbury. She was for a number of years the youngest female exhibitor in history at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, while still at school. She met in consequence Augustus John, Dame Laura Knight, and Sir Alfred Munnings, among many other painters of that time.

She had many solo exhibitions in Britain and Europe, and exhibited consistently at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Society of Miniature Painters, and the Society of Women Artists, of which she was Vice President, for many years.

She exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon, where she was awarded the Prix Roland, (1964) the Gold Medal and Hors Concord (1969)

She undertook many commissioned portraits of distinguished and also Royal subjects, and became celebrated especially for her sympathetic portraits of children. She was also well known for exquisite and sensitive drawings, very finely made miniatures, and also still-life compositions. Joyce mainly used oil paint and various drawing media, pencil and red chalk, and sometimes watercolour.

Her work is held in many collections in Britain, Europe, Japan, USA, including that of HRH Prince and Princess Michael of Kent and the 11th Duke of Devonshire, among others.

From having exhibited aged 16 at the Royal Academy until nearly her 90th year, Joyce Wyatt painted and exhibited all her life: she died in 2020.