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LEIGH PARRY
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MA RBA PPPS SEA Hon
PSC |
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| Artist Biography |
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Parry was born in London and went to St Martin's School of Art. He
works in oils, watercolours and pastels and has been exhibition for
many years, first showing with the Royal Society or British Artists
ot the original true RBA gallery in Suffolk Street in 1953, at the
Manchester Academy in the same year and at the old Royal Institute
of Painters in Watercolours Gallery in Piccadilly one year later. |
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Parry is a Senior member and Trustee of the Pastel Society UK (President
1983-88 initiating the renaissance of that Society during those years
after a fallow period: a member of the Society of Equestrian Artists:
an Honorary Treasurer in 1993. He served on the board of governors
of the Federation of british Artists from 1983-86. He had received
a "mention honorable" at the Paris Salon and won a number of awards
in the Societies including the Cuneo Medal in the Society of Equestrian
Artists, struck in the name of the late President Terence Cuneo CVO
OBE and awarded for the most meritorious group of works. |
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Burghley |
Chatsworth |
Badminton |
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Apart from annual exhibitions with the various societies of which he
is a member, he has held one man shows in specialist subjects:
mountaineering at the Alpine Gallery London, equestrian and travel
the Heritage Gallery in Calgary Canada and in the UK at galleries
in the Midlands and London covering hid journeys to Canada,
India, China and Tibet. Additionally he a has worked for a number
Years with the British Horse Society:he is mentioned in The
Dictionary of British Equestrian Artists and is author of articles
on equestrian studies |
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shows include: Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions, Royal Cambrian
Academy, Paris Salon, The National Gallery of Canada, The new English
Art Club and the Discerning Eye at the Mall Galleries in London,
and for a number of years annually at the Llewllyn Alexander gallery
as well as other London and provincial Galleries. |
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equestrian art Leigh Parry follows a family tradition, which he
traces back to his forbear Walter Parry Hodges (1760 - 1845) whose
word wad engraved by Henry Alken Senior for the Beaufort Hunt Prints
in 1833, Parry himself had been commissioned by the brutish Horse
society to paint pictures of the Burghley Horse trials which have
been published as limited edition prints, a nice family coincidence
in that the Beaufort Hunt had its home at Badminton House and since
1961 the two principal Horse Trials in the UK annual equestrian
calendar have been Burghley and Badminton. A recent equestrian
commission mow competed had been to paint a series of pictures
of their Olympic and other event horses competing at Badminton,
Burghley and chatsworth for the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire. |
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by Leigh Parry is in possession of such public bodies as the HSBC
Bank plc , Singer and Friidlander Band, Remy Martin, Lincolnshire
Museums, Kesteven County council, essex county council, Burghley
House, Oundle School, Guy's Hospital and the British Horse Society. |
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| Artist Themes |
Oils; Watercolors; Pastels; |
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