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About New Collection
Hubert Pragnell was born in London and studied Fine Art at Goldsmith’s College and the Ruskin School of Drawing at Oxford and History at Kent Univeristy. He has a particular interest in architecture and landscape and works principally in watercolours and pastel. His delicate and detailed work is atmospheric. A magnificent townscape of Canterbury gives the whole sweep of the city dominated by the Cathedral but giving due emphasis to the modern buildings. The Longmarket development, attacked at the outset, seems to take its place comfortably in the whole panorama. It will be interesting to see if, through the artist’s eye, the same process happens with Whitefriars.
He has written and illustrated a number of books including The London Panoramas of Robert Barker and Thomas Girtin, The Styles of English Architecture ( Batsford ); A Guide to Architectural Styles, and illustrated Short Walkes in English Towns. He has taught art and art history at the Crypt School, Gloucester, Stonyhurst College and, since 1973, at the King’s School, Canterbury.
Commissions have included work for the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, Westminster Abbey, Norfolk and Norwich Tourist Board, Malvern Hill District Council, as well as numerous private commissions.
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