Bio

Prue Pardue has lived the artist's life, working professionally in the fields of design and illustration as well as studying and teaching painting and drawing.

She studied at the Oxford School of Art studying composition under the tutelage of Evelyn Dunbar (!906-60 ). Dunbar was one of the few women artists to have been employed by the War Artists’ Advisory Committee. Prue was later invited to study as a post graduate at the Royal Academy London.

After leaving the Royal Academy Schools, Prue was employed as a textile designer by Manchester Studios designing patterns for dress and furnishing fabrics with gouache. When living in New York, she was employed by Cohn Hall Marx as a textile designer in brush and inks. At the same time she was designing off-Broadway theatre sets, book covers and magazine illustrations.

On her return to Oxford, she studied early 20th century art with Robin Child while herself lecturing on life drawing and composition at the Cherwell College.

In Oxford, Prue formed the painting group C21, which exhibits locally and at The Gallery, Cork Street. During this time she has also exhibited as an individual at the Royal Academy, The Mall Galleries and MOMA in Oxford. She has also been employed to restore frescoes in the Oxford University's venerable Bodleian library and illustrated for the Pergamon Press