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Revision as of 16:32, 30 April 2010
Brenda Barratt (born 1946, Woodford Green) is an English watercolour painter, particularly of architecture.
Brenda specializes in architectural subjects as well as gardens and landscapes. She works from her studio in Buxted, East Sussex.[1] Brenda gets commissioned to capture the essence of various schools and colleges in England such as Hurstpierpoint College, Great Walstead School, Burgess Hill Girls School and Brighton College. She produces limited edition prints and donates the original to the school. Collectors from around the world have bought Brenda's architectural watercolors.[2]
Brenda comes from a long line of professional artists and has been painting architectural subjects for over twenty years.[3] Her father, Chris Rooke was commissioned to paint watercolours of important buildings thought likely not to survive World War II.[2] One of his paintings is in the custody of the Victoria and Albert Museum.[4]
Brenda's painting in outer space
In May of 2010 NASA astronaut Piers Sellers is taking an original watercolor portrait painted by Brenda Barratt into outer space aboard the Space Shuttle.[5] Piers Sellers was a pupil at Cranbrook School, in Kent and Brenda Barratt was recently asked by Angela Daly, the school's headteacher, to paint a watercolor of the school. The painting will then be returned to Cranbrook School with the official NASA verification that it has traveled into space.[2]
Schools where Brenda Barratt's paintings are displayed
- Ardingly College
- Arnold School, Blackpool
- Broadwater School
- Brighton College
- Buckswood School, Rye, England
- Burgess Hill School, West Sussex, England,
- Caterham School, Surrey, England
- Cranbrook School, Kent, England
- Great Walstead School
- Handcross Park School
- Hawthorns School, Bletchingley, Surrey, England
- Hilden Grange School
- Holmewood House School
- Hurstpierpoint College
- Kent College, Pembury, England
- Lewes Old Grammar School, Lewes, East Sussex, England
- Malvern St James College
- Moira House Girls School, Eastbourne, England
- Reigate Grammar School
- The Skinners' School, Kent, England
- St. Andrew’s School, Eastbourne, England
- St. Bartholomew's School, Berkshire, England
- St. Josephs Convent, Reading, England
- St. Swithun’s School, Winchester, England
- Stoke Brunswick School
- Tunbridge Wells Girls Grammar School