Jeffery Stride CV

I was born in Southampton, England in 1946 and educated at King Edward VI School in the same city. I studied painting at Camberwell School of Art, London, graduating in 1968. After living in Wales for three years I moved to south-west France with my wife, Sally. We have lived there ever since, raising our three children and living from the sale of our paintings.

One man shows + shows shared with Sally Davies Stride

2011    Solace, London  GB
2009    Alliance Française, Minneapolis   USA
2008    La Galleria, Pall Mall, London   GB
2007    Galerie Notre Dame, Paris    Fr
2005    Burgh House Art Gallery, London    GB
2005    Galerie Le Biblion, Toulouse     Fr
2004    Jointure Studio, Ditchling, nr Brighton    GB
2003    Jointure Studio, Ditchling, nr Brighton    GB
2002    Richmond Gallery, Toronto    Can
2000    Galerie Blaeve, Beaune     Fr
1999    Galerie Racine, Paris    Fr
1997    Fountain Court, Temple, London    GB
1995    Galerie Triangle, Paris   Fr
1994    Centre Culturel de l'Aerospatiale, Toulouse   Fr
1992    Fountain Court, Temple, London    GB
1990    Galerie Francis, Beaune    Switz
1988    Browse and Darby Gallery, London   GB
1987    Galerie Motte, Geneva    Switz
1986    Galerie Nichido, Paris     Fr
1985    Galerie Nichido, Paris     Fr
1983    Galerie Horizon, Paris    Fr
1981    Elaine Benson Gallery, Long Island    USA
1980    Musée de Cahors    Fr

Since 1990 we have opened our studio-gallery each summer at Vers in the Lot.

Three of my paintings were selected as official gifts from the town of Cahors for Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac and Lionel Jospin during the Anglo/French summit there in 2001. My work has also inspired the choreographer, Brigitte Dumez to write the ballet “Orion”. The scenery we produced  was described by the critic of Le Monde as “scintillating”.
One of my large paintings hangs in the Capitole, the famous town-hall of Toulouse. Others are in the collections of the Conseil Générale du Lot, the Welsh Arts Council, the Southern Arts Association, and various préfectures, hospitals and universities throughout France and England.

In 2005 I spent three months painting in Bhopal, India – infamous site of the world's worst ever industrial disaster – in order to raise money for the Bhopal Medical Appeal.