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Cherry Pickles

Country of residence United Kingdom

Although she lives and works in Pembrokeshire , has travelled extensively, painting landscapes in Greece and other countries as well as other parts of her native Wales.
Handling light and shade skilfully with an instinctive feel for landscape her work is vibrant with singing colour. This is intellectual work yet has an engaging air of spontanneity - we feel the scene with which we are presented has stopped her in her tracks, an impulse of the moment , inspiring her to capture this living landscape.
Early in her career she won the prize for best painting at the Slade and in the same year was awarded the Boise Scholarship to Italy and an Arts Council of Wales travel bursary to Jordan. A year later she obtained second prize in the National Portrait Gallery portrait award and to add to her impressive list of successes she has, on three separate occasions, received a Greek government scholarship for working in that country while in 1993 the Arts Council of Wales awarded her a travel bursary to New York.
In addition to the compelling and superbly colourful records of her travels many of them painted from the vantage point of the window of her camper van she specialises in self portraits. In these, she says , the surface of the mirror is important spatially and philosophically.

She lives and works in Wales and studied at Chelsea School of Art and Slade School, London.

Selected Exhibitions:
2006 Critics Choice; Summer Exhibition, Rich Perlow Gallery New York
2005 One person Show, Paino Nobile, London

Selected Collections:
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff; Royal Jordinian Gallery, Amman, Jordan; St Andrews University; Brunel University; Paul Smith, London; Francis Greenberg NY

Selected Awards:
2006 Arts Council Grant to cross the US. Greek Government Scholarship 98. 1987
National Gallery Portrait Award Prize

Exhibitions Start Your Collection 2007!, 01.Aug - 30.Sep.07, Contemporary Art Projects, Winter Exhibition, 18.Jan - 18.Feb.07, Contemporary Art Projects

 

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