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James Priddey was born at Handsworth, Birmingham in 1916.
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James Priddey
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He studied at Moseley School of Arts and Crafts, and at Birmingham College of Art between 1931-1935.
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He was elected as president to the Birmingham Watercolour Society in 1959 and a member to the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists in 1960, becoming the Society"s Honorary Secretary in 1966. Between 1974-1978 Priddey was elected as the president of the RBSA. Priddey had several styles, all unmistakably his own. He produced hundreds of black and white line illustrations for books and pamphlets, perhaps most notably for the 1973 publication Heart of England, a guide to the Midlands region which he illustrated throughout, with accompanying text by Louise Wright.
Towns, villages, rural scenes and some fine Black Country landscapes filled its pages, while a watercolour, very different in style but equally beautiful, graced the dustjacket.
James Priddey died just before Christmas in 1980. In the 1963 Autumn exhibition at the RBSA, two of Priddley"s works were displayed in their own gallery, Mussel Boats at Conway and Trouveau - the Arrester.
In 1967 Priddey exhibited the etching Cooling Towers, Salford Bridge at the Royal Academy of Art in London. In 2013 Priddey"s etched copperplate of Christchurch Passage and the Hand Coloured etching of Christchurch Passage were exhibited in Birmingham, RBSA Gallery as part of the exhibition RBSA: Our Collection, Our Archive and You.
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