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Hester Berry

Artist's Profile

Born
16th July 1987, Devon
Education
2008 - 2009    MA, Wimbledon College of Art
2005 - 2008    BA hons, School of Art, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
1996 - 2005    West Buckland School, West Buckland, Devon
1992 - 1996    Filleigh County Primary School, Filleigh, Devon
Qualifications
2008               BA (Hons) 1st class, Fine Art
2004 - 2005    A levels: 1A (Art), 2Bs (French and German), 1C (General Studies), AS level: 1C (English)
2004               Grade 8 Piano
2003               GCSEs: 5A* s, 6As, 1B
2002               Basic Food Hygiene Certificate
2000               Grade 4 Violin
Exhibitions
2008               4 Works, Sandford Gallery, Shrewsbury
2008               5 Works, Appledore Gallery, Appledore, Devon
2008               4 Works, Westward Ho! and Bideford Art Society 86th Summer Exhibition, Burton Art Gallery, Bideford, Devon
2008               5 Works, Claytons, Barnstaple, Devon
2008               5 Works, Degree Show, Aberystwyth University
2008               3 Works, Boundary Gallery, London
2008               1 Work, Oriel Dafydd Hardy, Caernarfon
2008               1 Work, Student Art Society, Aberystwyth University, Morlan Centre, Aberystwyth
2007               5 Works, Open Art Competition, Art Matters, Tenby, Pembrokeshire
2007               4 Works, Westward Ho! And Bideford Art Society 85th Summer Exhibition 2007 Burton Art Gallery, Bideford, Devon
2007               Solo exhibition at the Rising Sun Inn Umberleigh, Devon
2007               Organised and exhibited 3 works in the Student Art Society Exhibition in Oriel Cambria, Tregaron
2006               4 Works, Westward Ho! And Bideford Art Society 84th Summer Exhibition 2006, Burton Art Gallery, Bideford, Devon
2006               4 Works, Cambria Arts, Tregaron, Wales
2006               3 Works, Tokos Gallery and Craft Shop, Aberystwyth, Wales
2006               4 Works, Church Fete, Chittlehampton, Devon
2006               7 Works, Rising Sun, Umberleigh, Devon
2006               1 Work (sold privately to raise money for Leukaemia Research) Dovetails Gallery, Ilfracombe, Devon
2005               Joint exhibition with Edward Crumpton, Swimbridge Village Hall, Devon
Memberships
2007               Secretary for the Aberystwyth University Student Art Society
2006               Westward Ho! and Bideford Art Society
Interests
I enjoy walking in the countryside
Playing violin and piano
I listen to Irish session music in pubs, etc.
I'm an active member in the environment group, People and Planet, in my university
I like visiting all types of art gallery

Artist's Statement

When I paint I am looking for ways to represent my encounters with the beauty and power of the natural landscape.  My intention is to find visual equivalents for the sensual, aural, and other non-visual experiential qualities.  Nevertheless, I still think it is important to retain a degree of naturalism; weather and emotion require a familiar stage if they are to be convincing actors.  They need something to batter, whistle and moan through, warm, freeze, ruffle - a place which people can recognise as a familiar scene.  My painting is therefore an attempt to connect the visual and culturally familiar experience of the landscape with its visceral, reflexive equivalent.