June Berry | |
|---|---|
 Berry, 2020 | |
| Born | 10 August 1924 Melbourne, Derbyshire, England |
| Alma mater | Slade School of Fine Art |
| Known for | Watercolour painting |
| Website | http://juneberry.co.uk/ |
June Berry (born 10 August 1924) is a British artist, originally from Melbourne in Derbyshire. [1]
Berry studied painting at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. She has had nineteen solo exhibitions including a retrospective at the Bankside Gallery, London in 2002. Her paintings have been exhibited frequently at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London since 1952. Berry was Vice-President of the Royal Watercolour Society from 2001 to 2004 and is also a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, the New English Art Club and is a Royal West of England Academician.
Examples of Berry's work are included in the collections of HM the Queen, the British Government Art Collection, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, the National Museum Wales, the collection of the Royal West of England Academy, the Graphothek in Berlin and the All Union Society of Bibliophiles in Moscow. Her work has also been purchased by many private collectors in the UK, USA, Germany and Russia.
Kate Nelson in the Eastern Daily Press relates how Berry "wowed judges of a national competition" in 2008 when she was a finalist in The Sunday Times watercolour competition of that year. [2] She was also a highly commended finalist in the Sunday Times competition in 2011. She is described in an article by Pat Harvey in The Artist "as one of the treasures of British contemporary art". [3]
The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and appreciation of the visual arts through exhibitions, education and debate.
Jean Rees (1914–2004) was a British artist.
Dame Elizabeth Violet Blackadder, Mrs Houston, was a Scottish painter and printmaker. She was the first woman to be elected to both the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Academy.
Kenneth Howard OBE RA was a British artist and painter. He was President of the New English Art Club from 1998 to 2003.
Mary Fedden, was a British artist.
The Royal West of England Academy (RWA) is Bristol's oldest art gallery, located in Clifton, Bristol, near the junction of Queens Road and Whiteladies Road. Situated in a Grade 2* listed building, it hosts five galleries and an exhibition programme that celebrates the best of historic and contemporary British art.
Paul Emsley is a British artist who worked in South Africa until 1996 and is now resident in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England. He is a former lecturer at the Stellenbosch University and the 2007 winner of the BP Portrait Award for portrait painting. His work can be found in most public collections in South Africa, The National Portrait Gallery London and The British Museum. He is known for his large detailed images of people, animals and flowers. There was a major retrospective of his work in 2012 at the Sasol Art Gallery in Stellenbosch. He is represented in the UK by the Redfern Gallery and in South Africa by Everard Read. Emsley's portrait of the Princess of Wales is on permanent display at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Other notable portraits include Nelson Mandela, Sir V. S. Naipaul, Michael Simpson and William Kentridge.
Mildred Anne Butler was an Irish artist, who worked in watercolour and oil of landscape, genre and animal subjects. Butler was born and spent most of her life in Kilmurry, Thomastown, County Kilkenny and was associated with the Newlyn School of painters.
Bernard Dunstan was a British artist, teacher, and author, best known for his studies of figures in interiors and landscapes. At the time of his death, he was the longest serving Royal Academician.
Philip Connard, was a British painter known particularly for his paintings of decorative landscapes. Connard rose from humble origins to become an eminent artist in oils and watercolours whose commissions brought him royal recognition.
William Charles Thomas Dobson was an English painter.
Sax Impey is a British artist. He currently lives and works in St Ives, Cornwall, England, occupying a Porthmeor studio and continuing in the tradition of Patrick Heron, Ben Nicholson, and other recognized artists.
Diana Armfield is a British artist. She is known for landscapes, and has also painted portraits, literary subjects and still lifes. She has a particular interest in flower paintings, and is considered to owe much to the Sickert tradition. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and the Central School of Arts and Crafts. Armfield was elected as a Royal Academician in 1991.
Emma Stibbon is a Bristol-based British artist and Royal Academician.
Janette Kerr is a British painter of land and seascapes.
Anthony Whishaw is an English artist and member of the Royal Academy. Whishaw claims no association with any particular art movement, stating instead that "each painting and work on paper makes its own separate demands". He is also a member of The London Group.
Marguerite Horner is a British artist who won the 2018 British Women Artist Award. Her paintings aim to investigate, among other things, notions of transience, intimacy, loss and hope. She uses the external world as a trigger or metaphor for these experiences and through a period of gestation and distillation, makes a series of intuitive decisions that lead the work towards completion.
Margaret May Giles was a British painter, sculptor, and medallist. She was a member of the Society of Medallists and exhibited at their first exhibition in 1898 which was held at the Dutch Gallery in London, where her piece "Two Medals" was favorably critiqued.
Margaret Thomas was a British painter. She is remembered in particular for her still lifes and her flower paintings which received considerable acclaim, and are in numerous UK public collections.
Mary Morton was a British sculptor.
| International | |
|---|---|
| Artists | |
 | This article about a British painter born in the 20th century is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This biographical article about a painter from England is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
