ARH Artists and Tutors
Matthew Berry
Born: 5th September 1956
Birthplace: London
Education:
1975 - 1979: Byam Shaw School of Art
Byam Shaw Diploma in Fine Art
Prizes: Graham Nickson Drawing Prize, 1977 and 1978
Matthew Berry studied Fine Art at Byam Shaw School of Art from 1975 to 1979 with Simon Willis, Frank Bowling, Diana Armfield, Marigold Hodgkinson and Graham Nickson among others where he twice won the Byam Shaw/Graham Nickson drawing prize.
Matthew’s work has been exhibited regularly in South London, St Just in Penwith and Newlyn in Cornwall and also at the Runnymede Gallery, Old Windsor. His work has attracted interest abroad, as well as in the UK, and he has clients in Crete, Germany and New York.
His paintings explore the abstract possibilities inherent within landscape where light, colour and composition are the primary motives. While some of his paintings are painted in front of the subject, most are developed in the studio from sketches made ‘en plein air’, Matthew develops his images in an organic and intuitive process balancing the forms and colour to bring his paintings to life and portray his initial reactions to the subject.