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| The following information, submitted April 2006, is from the artist
Colin Berry is a Contemporary Realist painter who has studied both
historical and contemporary approaches to oil painting technique and
color theory. His under- graduate and graduate fine art degrees
in painting come from the University of New Hampshire (1985) and Boston
University (1987) respectively. He received scholarships in 1984
& 1985 to study in summer programs at Yale University and the
Realist Workshop & Symposium in La Napoule, France. In
1993-94 he was awarded a Fulbright Grant to study in Italy where he
sought out Renaissance masterworks,
attended the Florence Academy of Art, and studied human anatomy at the
Zoological Museum in Florence. In 1998 he attended Nelson Shanks
painting workshop at the Art Students League. He has exhibited on
a regional and national level, and has been featured in American Artist magazine publications twice.
Education & Training:
1998 Nelson Shanks Painting Master Class, Art Students League, NY
1993 Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy
1987 MFA, Boston University, Boston, MA
1985 BFA, University of NH, Durham, NH
1984 Yale University Summer School of Art, Norfolk, CT
Media Publications:
"Lifting the Commonplace to the Ideal", Still Life Highlights, American Artist, 2005
"Catch a Rising Artist", Luxury Golf, 2001
"Measured Excellence", American Artist, 1999
Awards:
Fulbright Grant- Italy, William JW Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, Washington, DC, 1993-94
Artist Opportunity Grant, NH State Council on the Arts, 1990,1994
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Receiving his undergraduate and master's degrees in fine art
respectively from the University of New Hampshire and Boston
University, he creates sharply focused, spare fruit and floral still
life arrangements.
His still lifes have been described as
being "Like a cherished object passed down within a family from one
generation to another" ("American Artist" 1/99). He has taught from
1966 at the New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester and at the
Heartwood School of Art in Kennebunkport, Maine. His studio is in
Newmarket, New Hampshire, and from 1993 to 1994, he studied in
Florence, Italy on a Fullbright Scholarship. There he studied with
Michael John Angel at the Florence Academy of Art and was much
influenced by studying the Renaissance masters.
Contemporary
influences are still life painter William Bailey whom Barry met in
France as well as expatriate American painters Richard Maury and
Charles Pfahl. He works from a combination of live set-ups and
photographs.
Source:
American Artist, January 1999
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