About Prue Pye
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Education
1998 - 2001
Peterborough Regional College
Awards
2018
Don Evans Award
2013
Art in Lyddington - Judges Choice
Judged by
Peter Jones, Swan Gallery, Oakham
Kate Owens, Goldmark Gallery, Uppingham
Linda Watson, Old House Gallery, Oakham
2010
Welland Valley Art Exhibition
Life Painting - titled
Metamorphosis
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Event: WVAS Autumn Exhibition
Dates: 4 Oct 2021 - 16 Oct 2021
Selected and curated work from the Welland Valley Art Society.
Autumn exhibition on for 2 weeks in the lovely town of Stamford, England.
Event: PAOS Affordable Art Fair
Dates: 1 Dec 2019 - 1 Dec 2019
Peterborough Artists Open Studios Group
Event: Peterborough Artists’ Open Studios
Dates: 30 Jun 2019 - 28 Jul 2019
3 weekends in June/July 2019
See PAOS website for online details of venue
www.paos.org.uk
Event: Prue Pye - Exhibition of Paintings at Gallery Stamford
Dates: 11 May 2019 - 1 Jun 2019
Invited Exhibition of work by Prue Pye
Gallery Stamford,
Maiden Lane,
Stamford,
Rutland
Event: WVAS Spring Exhibition
Dates: 29 Apr 2019 - 11 May 2019
Selected and curated work from Welland Valley Art Society Spring exhibition on for 2 weeks in the lovely town of Stamford
Event: Open Upp Art 2nd
Dates: 12 Apr 2019 - 4 May 2019
Big Pop Up Art Gallery
Event: Open Upp Art
Dates: 1 Mar 2019 - 23 Mar 2019
Big Pop Up Art Gallery
Uppingham
Rutland
Event: Peterborough Artists’ Open Studios
Dates: 23 Jun 2018 - 8 Jul 2018
3 weekends in June/July as part of the Open Studios event held in the Peterborough area.
Event: RVN Gallery - paintings
Dates: 15 Feb 2018 - 28 Feb 2020
The RVN Gallery has a charming and unusual collection of ceramics and paintings and has a 16th Centuary shopfront close to the cathedral in Bury St Edmunds.
Event: Winter Exhibition
Dates: 4 Nov 2017 - 27 Jan 2018
Invited group exhibition held at the lovely historic Norman House
Event: Body and Soul
Dates: 4 Mar 2017 - 25 Mar 2017
Exciting exhibition featuring works based on the figure from 3 artists
Event: Exhibit Here, Art Maze Exhibition
Dates: 14 Dec 2016 - 18 Dec 2016
A haunting maze of selected art held in the original Bargehouse warehouse on the South Bank of London
Event: Reflections & Shadows
Dates: 2 Aug 2016 - 7 Aug 2016
Artist and Artisan Collabrative
Event: Ophelia
Dates: 16 Jun 2016 - 30 Nov 2016
Exhibition of works inspired by the Pre-Raphaelite era painting by Millais
Event: Open Exhibition 2016
Dates: 17 Mar 2016 - 28 May 2016
The Open Exhibition is held every 2 years and is a competition for all visual arts - professionally curated and externally judged and taking place over 3 gallery spaces within the Peterborough Museum.
Vivacity Peterborough Arts
Event: Rutland Open Exhibition 2012 - 2016
Dates: 11 Mar 2016 - 23 Apr 2016
A well established open exhibition held in Oakham. Two paintings selected for 2016 exhibition.
Event: Life Essence
Dates: 15 Jul 2015 - 12 Aug 2015
A combined exhibition of the work of Prue Pye and Kathryn Parsons.
Life paintings by Prue use soft earthy colour with elements of layering and movement. Kathryn's intricate porcelain sculptures capture the essence of plants and lichens found growing locally.
Event: Aspects and Perceptions
Dates: 6 Mar 2015 - 29 Mar 2015
This exhibition brings together an ongoing body of work referred to as my 'Movement Series' based on exploring the human figure in multiples of varying overlaid images with all the compositional complexities this can incur. The risk taking and consequent vigour leads to outcomes that inform much of the work.
Event: Arusha Gallery exhibition
Dates: 18 Nov 2013 - 18 Feb 2014
Ongoing works held by this gallery
Event: Edinburgh Art Fair
Dates: 15 Nov 2013 - 17 Nov 2013
Arusha Collection
Event: Art in Lyddington
Dates: 1 Nov 2013 - 3 Nov 2014
Selected Rutland Exhibition- awarded Highly Commended - Nov 2013
and selected in 2014
Event: LoveArtFair
Dates: 17 Oct 2013 - 20 Oct 2013
Invited exhibition of mixed media
Event: Gallery
Dates: 8 Jun 2013 - 30 Dec 2016
Ongoing - Invited works for exhibiting in Gallery
Event: Gallery
Dates: 1 Oct 2012 - 30 Dec 2016
Ongoing - selected paintings
Event: Parallax Art Fair
Dates: 16 Feb 2012 - 18 Feb 2012
Internationally Invited exhibition of mixed media
Event: Still Working Exhibitions, 2011, 2012, 2013
Dates: 22 Sep 2011 - 30 Apr 2013
Selected mixed media exhibition of 13 artists taken to 3 venues -
The Old Still, Peterborough, 2011
Oakham Gallery, Oakham, Northants 2012
Pedestrian Gallery, Leicester 2013
Event: Figure Exhibition 2011, 2012
Dates: 6 Aug 2011 - 25 Aug 2012
Invited works for Figure Exhibition: Robert Fogell Gallery, Stamford 2011, 2012
Event: Summer Exhibition
Dates: 9 Jul 2011 - 4 Sep 2011
Selected Works for mixed media exhibition at Haddenham Gallery
Event: Yarrow Gallery
Dates: 1 May 2010 - 8 May 2010
Oundle Rotary Exhibition
Event: Ovenden Contemporary Arts, Haddenham
Dates: 28 Apr 2009 - 2 May 2009
Needhams Open Art Comp. 2009 - awarded highly commended
Event: Welland Valley Arts Society, 2008 - 2018
Dates: 15 Mar 2008 - 1 Oct 2018
Selected, annual Spring and Autumn Exhibitions held by this well established art society.
To become an exhibiting member of this Stamford based art society your work goes before a selection committee. Each annual exhibition entry is again selected before being hung.
Event: Art Liberating Lives 2007, 2008, 2009
Dates: 5 Nov 2007 - 21 Nov 2009
A selected exhibition of works
Biography
Life painting, the main body of my work, stems from layered exploration into relationships between form, colour and space and an ongoing series in movement. Using brush, skewer, fingers, rags, I draw directly in paint, ink, charcoal, graphite, or a mix of these, keeping a fresh and immediate response to the subject.
Colour is a language in which I can communicate.
Following a long period of
observational drawing and teaching of fine botanical modelling, my painting developed from a churning and insistent need to express myself in a different
way.
As my painting developed over the years I made a considered decision to not detail faces. The simple truth is I don’t see it as an important part of my work. Rather I seek to understand and portray some of the unseen layering and humanness in all of us. Faced with beautiful views - seemingly the way society seeks to measure, display, judge us - my instinct is to turn and find something hidden, less obvious, more real.
I found myself inspired early on in my learning by the large paintings of Jenny Saville at the Sensation Exhibition, Royal Academy in 1997 and by the freedom of colour use by Howard Hodgkin.
