June Berry RWS RE NEAC

June Berry was born in Melbourne, Derbyshire, and grew up in Boston, Lincolnshire. She studied painting at the Slade School of Art in 1942-3 and 1946-8, and as a postgraduate in 1948-9.

Exhibitions

 Awards

• Artists and Illustrators Award, Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries (1997)
• Saint Cuthbert's Mill Prize for Watercolour, Royal West of England Academy (1991)
• Kathleen Tronson Prize, NEAC Exhibition, Mall Gallerieis (1990)
• Brandler Gallery prize for Watercolour, NEAC Exhibition, Mall Galleries (1989)
• First Prize 'Watercolour of the North', Whitworth Art Gallery (1987)

Collections 

• Victoria and Albert Museum
• Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
• Royal West of England Academy Permenant Collection, Bristol
• The Government Art Collection
• HM The Queen

Membership

Subject Matter

My paintings refer to memories of childhood or nostalgic recollections of ways of life now disappearing. Part of the year is spent working in my loft studio in South-East London and part in deepest rural France, where some of the old ways still remain. I am fascinated by people, birds, dogs, gardens, secret pathways and alleyways, Spring and Autumn. My paintings are created in the studio from sketchbook notes, photographs, memory and experience After preparatory compositional studies i work directly in watercolour, building the image from many layers of transparent colour.