Chris Penny

Penny (1947-2001) was born in Blandford Forum, Dorset,  and studied at Bournemouth College of Art, 1964-68. His lecturing experience was to include periods at Harrow, Camberwell College of Art and for many years as head of printmaking at Byam Shaw School of Art in north London. Between 1972 and 1979, Penny contributed prints to the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. He moved to East Anglia in 1979, taking up a fellowship at Norwich School of Art. With Ian Welsh and Patrick Jones, he was included in the John Brinkley Fellows 1981/82 show at the Norwich School gallery.

Penny's reputation as a fine-art printmaker led to limited-edition etchings from several British and American publishing houses. The National Trust, American Express, Eastern Electricity, Phillips Petroleum and a number of Cambridge colleges commissioned images.

His intense figurative work was also about love of the landscape and its light. He was at one and the same time quite traditional in some of his views, but produced very contemporary-looking images.

Chris Penny's reputation became international as he participated in many solo and mixed shows in Europe, America, Japan and Australia. His one-man exhibitions included one at Cambridge Contemporary Art in 1995. He was included in a 1998 group show there of "Cambridge Views", where his meticulously observed depictions of King's College and the Bridge of Sighs were mixed with views of unexpected corners of the city.

Penny's work is in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, Norwich and Sheffield Universities, Pennsylvania Academy and Philadelphia Public Library. The sultans of Oman and Brunei, the Duchess of Kent, Ludovic Kennedy, Janet Suzman and Bill Wyman are among notable private buyers of his work.

Chris Penny Prints

• Saplings

  300 mm X 400 mm
  £ 100.00
• Castle Riggs

  440 mm X 300 mm
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• John's Barn

  300 mm X 250 mm
  £ 100.00
• North Bridge

  475 mm X 350 mm
  £ 125.00

• Cumbrian Bridge

  262 mm X 363 mm
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• Park Trees

  220 mm X 318 mm
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• Burnt Stubble

  295 mm X 152 mm
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• Orange Striped Towel

  252 mm X 292 mm
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• Red Striped Towel

  252 mm X 292 mm
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• Green Striped Towel

  250 mm X 293 mm
  £ 100.00
• Allriston Clergy House

  365 mm X 263 mm
  £ 100.00
• Forest II

  355 mm X 255 mm
  £ 100.00

• Ruined Croft

  300 mm X 400 mm
  £ 100.00
• Canal Trees

  280 mm X 388 mm
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• Woodland Glade

  265 mm X 365 mm
  £ 100.00
• Gowborrow

  440 mm X 300 mm
  £ 100.00

• Duffolk Diptych

  300 mm X 250 mm
  £ 120.00
• Blue Vase with Tulips

  490 mm X 485 mm
  £ 150.00
• Felbrigg Hall

  477 mm X 350 mm
  £ 125.00
• Trees II

  465 mm X 315 mm
  £ 100.00

• Trees I

  465 mm X 315 mm
  £ 100.00
• Roses

  260 mm X 420 mm
  £ 125.00
• Tulips

  260 mm X 420 mm
  £ 125.00
• St.Julitta Church

  360 mm X 262 mm
  £ 100.00

• Haymount

  360 mm X 262 mm
  £ 100.00
• Autumn Landscape

  250 mm X 155 mm
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• Norfolk Spring

  345 mm X 475 mm
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• Late October

  350 mm X 475 mm
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• Blue Vase with Daises

  490 mm X 485 mm
  £ 150.00