Education
She started her studies in Sherborne in 1963 and graduated with Bachelor Honors in 1970. In 1975 she graduated in Fine Arts from University of Reading and in 1977 she obtained her Certificate of Education for the United Kingdom.
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Deirdre Hyde
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Deirdre Hyde has been working continuously for the past thirty five years. Her work is also included in collections such as that of the Duke of Edinburgh, the Smithsonian Institution, National Geographic Society, and Canning House as well as private and public collections worldwide. She has created a 130 meter long mural for Frank Gehry’s Biomuseo in Panama.
Hyde trained as a fine artist at Reading University in the 70s, taught by Terry Frost, John Hoyland, Martin Froy and David Hockney.
Her main influences were the then unfashionable figurative painters Ray Atkins, Frank Auerbach and John Wonnacott. In her twenties she was inspired by the adventurous tradition of Maria Sibylla Merian, Emilio Spann, Frederick Catherwood, Margaret Mee and Marianne North.
She spent time chronicling the threatened nature of Central America. Her work from this time has been reproduced in museums and publications throughout Europe and the Americas from Norway to Brazil.
Since 2008 Hyde has produced an new body of work based on images from her travels.
Light and the elements provide the emotional charge to these large format acrylic canvases. Her images encompass everything from classical sculpture to urban street life, transforming the mundane. Hyde repeatedly refers to Greek sculptures.
People are portrayed suspended in a moment of awakening, caught in either air or water in the off balanced flow revealed by modern vision.
A hint of the ominous often encroaches on the ecstatic moment, adding a sinister undertow to the most celebratory image. Work 1979-2000 for parks Services in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, and Belize (World Wildlife Fund), Guatemala (International Union for Conservation of Nature), El Salvador (United States Agency for International Development), Brazil and Mexico (Smithsonian Institution), Guyana (Conservation International) Cape Verde and Spain.
Illustration work has appeared in publications worldwide, notably for National Geographic Society, Rainforest Alliance and Scholastic Publishers. 1997-2001 worked as artist in residence at Abruzzo National Park in Italy
Group Shows
Rome 2000
Alpha House Gallery United Kingdom 1999
Museum Juan Santa Maria, Costa Rica 1994
Museo de Arte Costarricense 1993
Jacobo Carpio Gallery, Costa Rica 1992
Museo Nacional, San Jose 1988
Masaya National Park, Nicaragua 1988
= Solo Shows Canning House, London 2008
National Theatre Costa Rica 1982, 2008
Museo Nacional Costa Rica 1989,2004
British Institute San Jose 1987,1990 1996
= Public Permanent Collections Ayutamento de Alcala de Henares, Spain
Pizarro Museum Trujillo, Spain
Centro Parchi, Rome
Various Permanent Collections in Abruzzo, Italy
University of Camerino, Italy
Gerald Gurrell, Jersey Zoo, United Kingdom
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Canning House, London
Fundacion Neotropica, Costa Rica
Fundacion Amigo de las Isla del Coco, Costa Rica
Museo Calderon Guardia, San Jose Costa Rica
National Geographic Society, Washington District of Columbia, United States of America
Schmacher College, Dartington Trust, United Kingdom
Dorset Center for Rural Crafts, United Kingdom
Frank Gehry"s Biomuseo, Panama.
