With careful observation and a command of technique, Berry produces paintings that have a dreamlike, ethereal quality. He received undergraduate and graduate degrees in painting from the University of New Hampshire (1985) and Boston University (1987), respectively. During that time, as a scholarship recipient, he attended summer study programs at Yale University and at the Realist Workshop in La Napoule, France. In 1993 he was awarded a Fulbright Grant to study for a year in Italy where he attended the Florence Academy of Art, and studied, among other Italian masterworks, Leonardo’s drawings in the collection of the Uffizi. After completing a course in human anatomy at the Zoological Museum in Florence, he produced a personal book on human anatomy. In 1998 he attended a Nelson Shanks painting workshop at the Art Students League in New York.
Colin Berry has exhibited on a regional and national level, and has been featured on the cover of The Artist’s Magazine twice and has appeared in American Artist and American Art Collector; his works are held in many private and corporate collections in the US.
“Having grown up on the NH Seacoast just a few miles from the ocean, the Seacoast environs have always been part of my consciousness. I’ve been drawn to the color and atmosphere of summer coastal subjects for many years, both the endlessly changing ocean and the lush greens of grasses and vegetation. An antidote to the gray New England winters, the therapeutic effects of summer light on the ocean and the coastal landscape bring balance, and provide inspiration to my work. The beauty of nature contains moments of quiet repose affecting our emotions with its harmonious rhythms and fullness of color. It’s always that sense of “awe” that we all feel that’s the elusive quality to achieve in art. I think of each painting as a kind of visual arrangement searching to express the particular presence of a place, or the experience of looking at the world in a certain moment.”
Colin Berry has exhibited on a regional and national level, and has been featured on the cover of The Artist’s Magazine twice and has appeared in American Artist and American Art Collector; his works are held in many private and corporate collections in the US.
“Having grown up on the NH Seacoast just a few miles from the ocean, the Seacoast environs have always been part of my consciousness. I’ve been drawn to the color and atmosphere of summer coastal subjects for many years, both the endlessly changing ocean and the lush greens of grasses and vegetation. An antidote to the gray New England winters, the therapeutic effects of summer light on the ocean and the coastal landscape bring balance, and provide inspiration to my work. The beauty of nature contains moments of quiet repose affecting our emotions with its harmonious rhythms and fullness of color. It’s always that sense of “awe” that we all feel that’s the elusive quality to achieve in art. I think of each painting as a kind of visual arrangement searching to express the particular presence of a place, or the experience of looking at the world in a certain moment.”