With deliberate observation and a command of realist techniques, Colin Berry produces paintings that

have peaceful, meditative qualities. He received undergraduate and graduate degrees in painting from the

University of New Hampshire (1985) and Boston University (1987), respectively. During that time he was

also awarded scholarships to attend summer art programs at Yale Norfolk School of Art and at the Realist

Workshop & Symposium 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. He also completed studies of human

anatomy at the Zoological Museum in Florence, and 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. In 2024 he was awarded the Robert Douglas

Hunter Award for Still Life in the New England Regional Juried Exhibition at the Guild of Boston Artists.

The artist has maintained dialogues with the subject matters of Water/Ocean painting, Still Life, and the

Lanscape throughout his career. He grew up on the NH Seacoast just a few miles from the ocean, where

the environs and light are part of the consciousness his work. A deep appreciation and affinity to the

Italian Renaissance style with it's classical orderliness and frontal presentation of subject matter also

define the sensibilities of the artist. Beyond the influences there is a clear sense of personality throughout

the body of work. There's a sense of quiet contemplation which pervades the work. Each painting is a

kind of visual arrangement searching to express the particular presence of an arrangement, or the experience of looking at the world.