With careful observation and an astonishing command of technique, Berry produces paintings that have a dreamlike, ethereal quality. He received undergraduate and graduate degrees in painting from the University of New Hampshire (1985) and Boston University (1987), respectively. During that time, as a scholarship recipient, he attended summer study programs at Yale University and at the Realist Workshop in La Napoule, France. In 1993 he was awarded a Fulbright Grant to study for a year in Italy where he attended the Florence Academy of Art, and studied, among other Italian masterworks, Leonardo’s drawings in the collection of the Uffizi. After completing a course in human anatomy at the Zoological Museum in Florence, he produced a personal book on human anatomy. In 1998 he attended a Nelson Shanks painting workshop at the Art Students League in New York.Colin Berry has exhibited on a regional and national level, and has been featured on the cover of American Artist and The Artist’s Magazine; his works are held in many private and corporate collections in the US.“Having grown up on the NH Seacoast just a couple of miles from the ocean, water has always been part of my consciousness. Water is beauty, and life. I’ve been drawn to water as a subject for many years, probably partly as a biological imperative, but also for its therapeutic effects on one’s emotions with its harmonious rhythms and richness of color. In fact, the idea of visual harmony is the subject in my water pieces. In this case subject and content are one. Figuratively speaking I view my water paintings as visual symphonies, or water symphonies to be more precise. There is so much about the abstract nature of water’s forms, shapes, and colors, motifs that elicit the idea of classical music for me. Those visual motifs I find in the water define the aesthetic mood and content of the piece.” – Colin Berry