James Priddey Coloured Etching - Autumn Tints, Cheshire

This is a beautiful rural view of Cheshire with stone cottage and rippling stream in the lovely warm colours associated with this artist. His style is very distinctive and he always manages to create a softness and timeless quality in his work, as in this very atmospheric piece. Signed lower right and bearing an impressed seal of Warwick Galleries, Birmingham "artist's proof". James Priddey (1916-1980) was a prolific printmaker and watercolourist who was active in the 1950s and 1960s and died in 1980. He was based in Birmingham and became President of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. He exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Society of British Artists, among many others.