ARTIST INFORMATION

Patricia Buckley

Patricia Buckley was born in Sussex and and won a scholarship to West Sussex College of Art, then moved to London where she attended very inspiring painting classes run by Leslie Cole, Head of Fine Art at the Central School of Art. Later, Patricia met an American artist, Myron Barnstone, who opened her eyes to the geometry within Art and Nature. The first painting she framed was shown in the Royal Academy summer exhibition. She exhibited in many exhibitions before obtaining a degree in Fine Art (Painting) at Kingston University in 1987. She attended Brighton University 1991-92 PGCE in Art Education. After her first visit to New York, Patricia spent some years painting her large imaginative work that expresses her feelings for the city. In 2000 she moved from North West London where she had lived for many years to a riverside flat near Teddington Lock. Patricia has painted the river view from her window which faces Ham

 

Riverside and the obelisk. She has also made many trips to Ventnor and painted the sunrise over the sea from an apartment window.

Patricia is also a frequent visitor to Tuscany where she has painted many landscapes and window views. In 2002 the artist made a "Big trip" solo, visiting friends and family in America, New Zealand and Australia doing small paintings and sketches in watercolour enroute. Following this trip she made imaginative works about Ayres Rock and Australia.

Patricia has a great love of Italy and the renaissance artists and also admires Balthus, Morandi, Gwen John, Monet, Turner and Palmer. She respects Lucien Freud and Hockney and contemporary figurative artists who uphold the tradition of painting from life in the face of a world dominated by new technology.

Patricia's work has undergone many changes from figurative to complete abstraction and back to the present imaginative/figurative style. She has experimented with many different mediums including oils, watercolours, pastels, etching, soft sculpture, ceramics, video and photography, all of which she enjoyed, but painting and drawing are her preference.

 

One-person Exhibitions

1979 The Art Centre Institute of Education University of London WC1 (reviewed by Julie Lacey in the Arts Review Dec '79)
1996 Tavistock Centre (Clinic) Belsize Lane London NW3

Group Exhibitions

1979 South London Gallery Peckham Road SE5 Group show
1984 Tricycle Theatre Kilburn NW6 Joint Exhibition with Julia Izard

Mixed Exhibitions

1979 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
1982 & 1983 Piccadilly Gallery Cork Street W.I Summer show
1984 & 1985 Chalk Farm Gallery NW1 Mixed show
1984 & 1985 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
1986 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
1987 Piccadilly Gallery Summer Show Cork Street London W1; Hunting Group National Art Competition exhibitor Mall galleries
1988 Francis Kyle Gallery Mixed exhibition Maddox St W1
1989 Stephen Bartley Gallery Old Church St SW10 Mixed show
1990 Hunting Group National Art Competition exhibitor
1991 Discerning Eye National Art Competition exhibitor Mall Galleries SW1
1992 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition; Alba Gallery Kew Mixed exhibition
1995 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
1996 Mayfair Park Gallery Whitehorse St W1 Mixed exhibition
1997 Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours Mall Galleries SW1, Belgrave Gallery, Englands Lane NW3 Mixed exhibition
1998 John Kobal Photographic Competition exhibitor: self-portrait: National Portrait Gallery London; Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2000 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2003 Williamsburg Art and Historical Center Brooklyn NY Exhibition of Imaginative Works (International artists) Sept-Nov; Discerning Eye National Art Competition Exhibitor Mall Galleries London SW1 Small oil painting chosen by Lord Bath of Longleat for the exhibition.
2004 Art for Life: Grand Art Draw for Cancer Relief UK at Christies, King Street St. James London SW1
2004 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2004 Singer & Friedlander / Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition Mall Galleries London SW1
2004 Discerning Eye National Art Competition Exhibition, the Mall Galleries, London SW1. Oil painting selected by Prof. Norbert Lynton, Art Critic and Historian

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