Prue Pye

Open at:
122 Atherstone Avenue
PE3 9UG
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Weekend 1 11am-4pm
Weekend 2 11am-4pm
Weekend 3 11am-4pm

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My formal introduction to art came after moving to England from Zimbabwe, twenty years ago. I took an A level in my mid-forties and then did a BTEC Foundation in Fine Art. Since then I have been developing along several lines.
My work falls loosely into three categories – figurative work and landscape into abstraction being two of them - and stems from layered exploration into the relationships between space, colour, shape and movement. I work with a variety of materials and mediums but mainly use brush and palette knife with oils and acrylic, preferring to paint from observation. Keeping the energy learnt in life drawing is important to me and joining a life class whenever possible to try and capture repeated movement is still an exhilarating challenge.
Tonal studies and cropped images of ordinary subjects – often informed by the angle of a room, doorway, entrance – form the basis of much of my painting and faced with a beautiful view, I'm more likely to turn and find a less obvious detail. The colours and memories of Africa still influence my painting and I’m inclined to see a landscape in terms of blocked sweeps of colour.