by amy dury
oil
h: 100 w: 85 d: 10 (cms).
Ive always loved how my husbands colouring matches the landscape he belongs to.
About the Artist
amy dury
Website: www.amydury.com/
Instagram: amy_dury/
Statement
There is a strong idea of colour to begin, using both oil and acrylic paint, alongside charcoal and pencil drawings. My background as a printmaker informs the use of layers and structure, yet allowing the process to move and evolve the work as it is constructed. Loose and textured painterly marks exist alongside more precise detail. A strong grounding in portrait and figure drawing gives freedom to describe or suggest.
Biography
BA Printmaking Glasgow School of Art 1997
MA Fine Art University of Brighton 2000
Programme Leader Fine Art - Varndean College, Brighton
Recent notable events include appearing on Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year ’21, and accepted for the 2021 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. In March 2021 she conducted a livestream portrait painting session for the Tate Instagram. She was chosen to respond to Edvard Munch print for Society of Scottish Artists 22/23 Annual Show. In 2024 she exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Show and in early 2025 she is a guest Presenter for two episodes of Sky Arts ‘Artist Masterclasses’.
EXHIBITIONS & NOTABLE
2025 Guest Presenter Sky Arts ‘Artists Masterclasses’ 2025 Judge for Sussex portrait Artist of the Year
2025 Solo Show Cameron Contemporary Art Brighton 2025 Solo Show Tambaran 2 Gallery New York
2024 Solo Show ‘Souvenir’ - Lido Stores Margate 2024 Cass Art Prize - Shortlisted
2024 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2024 Green and Stone Gallery Open Call
2024 Brighton College Commission - seven paintings 2024 Group Show Tambaran 2 Gallery, New York 2024 Winter Show Stratford Gallery UK
2023 Solo Show Cameron Contemporary Art, Hove 2023 July Group Show Janet Rady Fine Art
2023 July Atelier Open, Brighton
2023 Royal Society of Portrait Painters
2023 Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour
2022/3 Society of Scottish Artists 130th Annual Exhibition – Commissioned piece responding to Edvard Munch
2022 December Guest on John Daltons Art Podcast
2022 October – Sussex Contemporary at the i360 Brighton – 2 pieces 2022 November – ING Discerning Eye at the Mall Galleries, London – I piece
2022 September Figures Group Show Cameron Contemporary, Hove 2022 July -Beep Contemporary, Swansea
2022 August – Oxmarket Contemporary Open – Chichester 2022 July Atelier Brighton Open Call – Two paintings selected
2022 Trinity Buoy Wharf Gallery , London- Group Show
2022 March ‘Time & Place’ with Jane Campling -Cameron
Contemporary, Hove
2022 March Featured in Sussex Life Magazine
2022 February Featured in ‘Artists and Illustrators’Magazine
2022 February Winner of Zealous Painting Stories
2021 A Sense of Place – Group Show – Lanehouse Arts, St Leonards
2021 S8 E5 Sky Portrait Artist of the Year contestant
2021 ‘Amy Dury & Phillip Maltman’ at Rise Gallery, Berwick St., London
2021 Reconfiguring – 3 person Show at The Regency Town House,
Brighton
2021 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize – ‘Self-Defence’
2021 Society of Women Artists Annual Open Exhibition – ‘Council
Worker’
2021 Livestream Portrait painting for the Tate -painting Cornelia Parker
for International Womens Day.
2021 Rise Gallery, Soho group Show