biddy picard

Born in 1922 in Derbyshire, Biddy Picard attended Chesterfield School of Art before training at the Slade. After a brief period teaching art in Bristol she moved to Wales and then in 1974, to Cornwall.

A longstanding member of the Newlyn Society of Artists, she has also taught both painting and ceramics at Penzance School of Art.

Biddy Picard’s work has been exhibited regularly at galleries throughout Cornwall and also in the Midlands, the North of England and London. Her paintings are widely collected and included in many private collections in both the United Kingdom and Europe.

Of her work she says “I try in my painting to convey some of the particular magic of West Penwith; the feeling of remoteness, the intensity of light and the rapid changes of mood. Thrusting into a restless sea, it is an “end place” where little harbours cling to the stern granite rocks, for me a special land unlike any other”.

Due to failing eyesight Biddy unfortunately no longer paints but remains as vivacious as she ever was.

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Bird on Branch
acrylic 20 x 29c

Bird on Branch II
acrylic 22 x 28cm

Earth Man
acrylic 29 x 40cm

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