DALE PRING MACSWEENEY
Dale Pring was brought up in an art loving household in N. Kensington, West London. Later, aged twelve, the family moved near Richmond Park in Surrey, where her early talent for painting and drawing was fostered and encouraged in the school art department and classes at Kingston School of Art by her mentor John Mapp. She went on to study at Wimbledon and Waltham Forest where she was fortunate to be tutored by several distinguished artists.
In 1980 a magnificently creative symbiosis began when she married the eminent Irish polymath David MacSweeney establishing a flourishing career working in several studios in London and showing her paintings in many major galleries and art institutions in London as well as internationally.
In 1992 she moved to California and spent over six successful and stimulating years experiencing a whole new dimension of light and subject. However California eventually felt too far away and the lure of England and her love of Italy inevitability beckoned her back and she’s been working and living happily in East Anglia ever since.
The body of over four decades of work reflect these major changes in location both in colour, atmosphere and light.
“ Her work with it’s sheer mastery of technique and incredible detail moves beyond the mere display of technical bravado, possessing as it does a certain enigmatic quality found in all great still lifes and interiors....”