Prue Pye

Prue Pye - artist statement

I am a painter. My whole approach seeks to capture the multi faceted layers and non topical colour that exists within us.. It is a search for an essential humanness, and therefore faces are not recorded, but hinted at; a sense of universality and truth. My work is about trying to understand how we are perceived, how that is informed and whether that fleeting perception is important. The paintings use and embody, strength and frailty, energy and movement and a self imposed position of uncertainty is part of this.

Faced with a beautiful view - the way in which we seem to measure, display, judge ourselves - my reaction is to turn and find something hidden and less apparent. The physicality of placing colour on a surface, in ways that express or communicate is a vital part of why I paint and has developed from a need to find a language that connects beyond the immediate.

Art Education
A level - Fine Art
BTEC Foundation in Art and Design
Sculpture - Fine Art

Stamford Contemporary Gallery - March 2023
Restart Peterborough; Group Exhibition 2020-2021
(extended after 3rd COVID lockdown) City Gallery.
Peterborough Artists’ Open Studios June 2021,2022,2023
Gallery Stamford; Prue Pye Exhibition, May 2019
Open Upp Art Exhibitions x 2 - Uppingham, Rutland
1st exhibition Mar 2019. 2nd Exhibition Apr 2019
PAOS Affordable Art Fair, Alwalton, Dec 2018-2021
Welland Valley Art Society, Stamford. Selected for Annual Exhibition, Spring & Autumn 2018,2019,2021,2022,2023
Winter Exhibition, Norman Cross Gallery Nov 2017
Open - selected Art Exhibition, City Gallery, Peterborough - Mar,Apr 2016
Aspects and Perceptions, Solo Exhibition, P'boro City Gallery - Mar 2015
Life Essence, joint exhibition, Willoughby Gallery, Corby Glen - July 2015
Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh - Nov 2013 - Apr 2014 Edinburgh Art Fair, Arusha Gallery - Nov 2013
Art in Lyddington, Rutland - awarded Highly Commended - Nov 2013
Milton Keynes LoveArtFair Oct 2013
Robert Fogell Gallery, Stamford - 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
Still Working Gallery, Leicester - May 2013
Art in the Heart, Peterborough - 2012 to 2017
Parallax International Art Fair, Chelsea, London May 2012
Still Working Gallery, Oakham, May 2012
Rutland Open, Oakham, Apr 2012 - ...