June Berry (born 10 August 1924) is a British artist, originally from

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in Derbyshire.

Life and career

Berry studied painting at the

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in London. She has had nineteen solo exhibitions including a retrospective at the Bankside Gallery, London in 2002. Her paintings have been exhibited frequently at the

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, London since 1952. Berry was Vice-President of the

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from 2001 to 2004 and is also a member of the

Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE), known until 1991 as the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, is a leading art institution based in London, England. The Royal Society of Painter-Etchers, as it was originally styled, was ...

, the

New English Art Club The New English Art Club (NEAC) was founded in London in 1885 as an alternative venue to the Royal Academy. It continues to hold an annual exhibition of paintings and drawings at the Mall Galleries in London, exhibiting works by both members and a ...

and is a Royal West of England Academician. Examples of Berry's work are included in the collections of HM the Queen, the British Government Art Collection, the

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, London, the

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, the collection of the

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, the Graphothek in Berlin and the All Union Society of Bibliophiles in Moscow. Her work has also been purchased by many private collectors in the UK, USA, Germany and Russia. Kate Nelson in the ''

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'' relates how Berry "wowed judges of a national competition" in 2008 when she was a finalist in ''

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'' watercolour competition of that year. She was also a highly commended finalist in the Sunday Times competition in 2011. She is described in an article by Pat Harvey in ''The Artist'' "as one of the treasures of British contemporary art".Harvey, Pat (August 2010) "June Berry". ''The Artist'' pp 20–22

References

External links

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June Berry RWS - Royal Watercolour Society website

June Berry, Royal West of England Academician - Royal West of England Academy website

June Berry, Member, New English Art Club - New English Art Club (NEAC) website 1924 births Living people 20th-century English women artists 21st-century English women artists 20th-century English painters 21st-century English painters Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art English watercolourists English women painters Members of the Royal West of England Academy People from Melbourne, Derbyshire {{England-painter-stub