Leigh
Parry MA RBA PPPS SEA Hon
PSC 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.
Leigh
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. |
