Prue Pye

Joined Artfinder: Feb. 2014

Artworks for sale: 13

United Kingdom

About Prue Pye

 
 
  • 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.



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  • Education

    1998 - 2001

    Peterborough Regional College

  • Awards

    2018

    Don Evans Award

    Awarded for best painting from life in the prestigious Welland Valley Art Society’s Autumn Exhibition

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    2013

    Art in Lyddington - Judges Choice

    Highly Commended awarded for life painting, titled ‘Conversation’
    Judged by
    Peter Jones, Swan Gallery, Oakham
    Kate Owens, Goldmark Gallery, Uppingham
    Linda Watson, Old House Gallery, Oakham

    2010

    Welland Valley Art Exhibition

    Highly Commended awarded to
    Life Painting - titled
    Metamorphosis
  • Upcoming Events

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    Previous events

    Event: WVAS Autumn Exhibition

    Dates: 4 Oct 2021 - 16 Oct 2021

    Venue: Stamford Art Centre, Stamford

    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

    Venue: Colonel Dane Community Centre, Alwalton Village

    Peterborough Artists Open Studios Group

    Event: Peterborough Artists’ Open Studios

    Dates: 30 Jun 2019 - 28 Jul 2019

    Venue: Peterborough Artists’ Open Studios, Prue Pye’s Studio, Peterborough PE3 9UG

    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

    Venue: Gallery Stamford, 3 Maiden Ln, Stamford PE9 2AZ, UK

    Invited Exhibition of work by Prue Pye
    Gallery Stamford,
    Maiden Lane,
    Stamford,
    Rutland

    Event: WVAS Spring Exhibition

    Dates: 29 Apr 2019 - 11 May 2019

    Venue: Stamford Art Centre, Stamford

    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

    Venue: Pop Up Art Gallery, Uppingham, 8 Ayston Red, Uppingham, Rutland

    Big Pop Up Art Gallery

    Event: Open Upp Art

    Dates: 1 Mar 2019 - 23 Mar 2019

    Venue: Open Upp Art, 8 Ayston Road, Uppingham, Rutland

    Big Pop Up Art Gallery
    Uppingham
    Rutland

    Event: Peterborough Artists’ Open Studios

    Dates: 23 Jun 2018 - 8 Jul 2018

    Venue: Peterborough Artists’ Open Studios, Prue Pye’s Studio, Peterborough PE3 9UG

    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

    Venue: Reallyverynice Gallery, 29 Churchgate St, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. IP33 1RG

    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

    Venue: Norman Cross Gallery, Norman House, Norman Cross, Peterborough, Cambs PE7 3TB

    Invited group exhibition held at the lovely historic Norman House

    Event: Body and Soul

    Dates: 4 Mar 2017 - 25 Mar 2017

    Venue: Norman Cross Gallery, Norman House, Norman Cross, Peterborough, Cambs PE7 3TB

    Exciting exhibition featuring works based on the figure from 3 artists

    Event: Exhibit Here, Art Maze Exhibition

    Dates: 14 Dec 2016 - 18 Dec 2016

    Venue: Barge House, London, Oxo Tower Wharf, South Bank, London SE1 9PH

    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

    Venue: Yarrow Gallery, Oundle

    Artist and Artisan Collabrative

    Event: Ophelia

    Dates: 16 Jun 2016 - 30 Nov 2016

    Venue: Art in the Heart, Peterborough, Peterborough

    Exhibition of works inspired by the Pre-Raphaelite era painting by Millais

    Event: Open Exhibition 2016

    Dates: 17 Mar 2016 - 28 May 2016

    Venue: City Gallery, City Gallery. Peterborough Museum - Priestgate, Peterborough PE1 1LF

    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

    Venue: Rutland County Museum, Oakham - Catmose Street, LE15 6HW

    A well established open exhibition held in Oakham. Two paintings selected for 2016 exhibition.

    Event: Life Essence

    Dates: 15 Jul 2015 - 12 Aug 2015

    Venue: Willoughby Trust Memorial Gallery, Corby Glen

    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

    Venue: City Gallery, Peterborough Museum

    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

    Venue: Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, Edinburgh

    Ongoing works held by this gallery

    Event: Edinburgh Art Fair

    Dates: 15 Nov 2013 - 17 Nov 2013

    Venue: Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, Edinburgh

    Arusha Collection

    Event: Art in Lyddington

    Dates: 1 Nov 2013 - 3 Nov 2014

    Venue: Art in Lyddington, Rutland, Rutland

    Selected Rutland Exhibition- awarded Highly Commended - Nov 2013
    and selected in 2014

    Event: LoveArtFair

    Dates: 17 Oct 2013 - 20 Oct 2013

    Venue: Milton Keynes Centre, Milton Keynes

    Invited exhibition of mixed media

    Event: Gallery

    Dates: 8 Jun 2013 - 30 Dec 2016

    Venue: Robert Fogell Gallery, Stamford, Stamford

    Ongoing - Invited works for exhibiting in Gallery

    Event: Gallery

    Dates: 1 Oct 2012 - 30 Dec 2016

    Venue: Art in the Heart, Peterborough, Peterborough

    Ongoing - selected paintings

    Event: Parallax Art Fair

    Dates: 16 Feb 2012 - 18 Feb 2012

    Venue: Parallax Art Fair, London, Chelsea Town Hall, King's Road, London

    Internationally Invited exhibition of mixed media

    Event: Still Working Exhibitions, 2011, 2012, 2013

    Dates: 22 Sep 2011 - 30 Apr 2013

    Venue: Pop-up Gallery, Peterborough, Oakham, Leicester, Peterborough, Oakham, Leicester

    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

    Venue: Robert Fogell Gallery, Stamford, Stamford

    Invited works for Figure Exhibition: Robert Fogell Gallery, Stamford 2011, 2012

    Event: Summer Exhibition

    Dates: 9 Jul 2011 - 4 Sep 2011

    Venue: Haddenham Gallery, Haddenham, Ely

    Selected Works for mixed media exhibition at Haddenham Gallery

    Event: Yarrow Gallery

    Dates: 1 May 2010 - 8 May 2010

    Venue: Yarrow Gallery, Oundle, Oundle

    Oundle Rotary Exhibition

    Event: Ovenden Contemporary Arts, Haddenham

    Dates: 28 Apr 2009 - 2 May 2009

    Venue: Needhams Open Art, Cambridgeshire, Needham

    Needhams Open Art Comp. 2009 - awarded highly commended

    Event: Welland Valley Arts Society, 2008 - 2018

    Dates: 15 Mar 2008 - 1 Oct 2018

    Venue: Stamford Arts Centre, Stamford, Lincolnshire PE9 2DL

    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

    Venue: Mall Galleries, London, London

    A selected exhibition of works

Links


Education

1998 - 2001

Peterborough Regional College


Awards

2018

Don Evans Award

Awarded for best painting from life in the prestigious Welland Valley Art Society’s Autumn Exhibition

Show more awards Hide

2013

Art in Lyddington - Judges Choice

Highly Commended awarded for life painting, titled ‘Conversation’
Judged by
Peter Jones, Swan Gallery, Oakham
Kate Owens, Goldmark Gallery, Uppingham
Linda Watson, Old House Gallery, Oakham

2010

Welland Valley Art Exhibition

Highly Commended awarded to
Life Painting - titled
Metamorphosis

There are no upcoming events

Show previous events Hide previous events

Previous events

Event: WVAS Autumn Exhibition

Dates: 4 Oct 2021 - 16 Oct 2021

Venue: Stamford Art Centre, Stamford

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

Venue: Colonel Dane Community Centre, Alwalton Village

Peterborough Artists Open Studios Group

Event: Peterborough Artists’ Open Studios

Dates: 30 Jun 2019 - 28 Jul 2019

Venue: Peterborough Artists’ Open Studios, Prue Pye’s Studio, Peterborough PE3 9UG

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

Venue: Gallery Stamford, 3 Maiden Ln, Stamford PE9 2AZ, UK

Invited Exhibition of work by Prue Pye
Gallery Stamford,
Maiden Lane,
Stamford,
Rutland

Event: WVAS Spring Exhibition

Dates: 29 Apr 2019 - 11 May 2019

Venue: Stamford Art Centre, Stamford

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

Venue: Pop Up Art Gallery, Uppingham, 8 Ayston Red, Uppingham, Rutland

Big Pop Up Art Gallery

Event: Open Upp Art

Dates: 1 Mar 2019 - 23 Mar 2019

Venue: Open Upp Art, 8 Ayston Road, Uppingham, Rutland

Big Pop Up Art Gallery
Uppingham
Rutland

Event: Peterborough Artists’ Open Studios

Dates: 23 Jun 2018 - 8 Jul 2018

Venue: Peterborough Artists’ Open Studios, Prue Pye’s Studio, Peterborough PE3 9UG

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

Venue: Reallyverynice Gallery, 29 Churchgate St, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. IP33 1RG

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

Venue: Norman Cross Gallery, Norman House, Norman Cross, Peterborough, Cambs PE7 3TB

Invited group exhibition held at the lovely historic Norman House

Event: Body and Soul

Dates: 4 Mar 2017 - 25 Mar 2017

Venue: Norman Cross Gallery, Norman House, Norman Cross, Peterborough, Cambs PE7 3TB

Exciting exhibition featuring works based on the figure from 3 artists

Event: Exhibit Here, Art Maze Exhibition

Dates: 14 Dec 2016 - 18 Dec 2016

Venue: Barge House, London, Oxo Tower Wharf, South Bank, London SE1 9PH

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

Venue: Yarrow Gallery, Oundle

Artist and Artisan Collabrative

Event: Ophelia

Dates: 16 Jun 2016 - 30 Nov 2016

Venue: Art in the Heart, Peterborough, Peterborough

Exhibition of works inspired by the Pre-Raphaelite era painting by Millais

Event: Open Exhibition 2016

Dates: 17 Mar 2016 - 28 May 2016

Venue: City Gallery, City Gallery. Peterborough Museum - Priestgate, Peterborough PE1 1LF

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

Venue: Rutland County Museum, Oakham - Catmose Street, LE15 6HW

A well established open exhibition held in Oakham. Two paintings selected for 2016 exhibition.

Event: Life Essence

Dates: 15 Jul 2015 - 12 Aug 2015

Venue: Willoughby Trust Memorial Gallery, Corby Glen

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

Venue: City Gallery, Peterborough Museum

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

Venue: Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, Edinburgh

Ongoing works held by this gallery

Event: Edinburgh Art Fair

Dates: 15 Nov 2013 - 17 Nov 2013

Venue: Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, Edinburgh

Arusha Collection

Event: Art in Lyddington

Dates: 1 Nov 2013 - 3 Nov 2014

Venue: Art in Lyddington, Rutland, Rutland

Selected Rutland Exhibition- awarded Highly Commended - Nov 2013
and selected in 2014

Event: LoveArtFair

Dates: 17 Oct 2013 - 20 Oct 2013

Venue: Milton Keynes Centre, Milton Keynes

Invited exhibition of mixed media

Event: Gallery

Dates: 8 Jun 2013 - 30 Dec 2016

Venue: Robert Fogell Gallery, Stamford, Stamford

Ongoing - Invited works for exhibiting in Gallery

Event: Gallery

Dates: 1 Oct 2012 - 30 Dec 2016

Venue: Art in the Heart, Peterborough, Peterborough

Ongoing - selected paintings

Event: Parallax Art Fair

Dates: 16 Feb 2012 - 18 Feb 2012

Venue: Parallax Art Fair, London, Chelsea Town Hall, King's Road, London

Internationally Invited exhibition of mixed media

Event: Still Working Exhibitions, 2011, 2012, 2013

Dates: 22 Sep 2011 - 30 Apr 2013

Venue: Pop-up Gallery, Peterborough, Oakham, Leicester, Peterborough, Oakham, Leicester

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

Venue: Robert Fogell Gallery, Stamford, Stamford

Invited works for Figure Exhibition: Robert Fogell Gallery, Stamford 2011, 2012

Event: Summer Exhibition

Dates: 9 Jul 2011 - 4 Sep 2011

Venue: Haddenham Gallery, Haddenham, Ely

Selected Works for mixed media exhibition at Haddenham Gallery

Event: Yarrow Gallery

Dates: 1 May 2010 - 8 May 2010

Venue: Yarrow Gallery, Oundle, Oundle

Oundle Rotary Exhibition

Event: Ovenden Contemporary Arts, Haddenham

Dates: 28 Apr 2009 - 2 May 2009

Venue: Needhams Open Art, Cambridgeshire, Needham

Needhams Open Art Comp. 2009 - awarded highly commended

Event: Welland Valley Arts Society, 2008 - 2018

Dates: 15 Mar 2008 - 1 Oct 2018

Venue: Stamford Arts Centre, Stamford, Lincolnshire PE9 2DL

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

Venue: Mall Galleries, London, London

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.