Brenda Barratt (born 1946) is an English watercolour painter, particularly of architecture.
Born in Woodford Green, Barratt specialises in architectural subjects as well as gardens and landscapes. She works from her studio in Buxted, East Sussex. Brenda gets commissioned to capture the essence of various schools and colleges in England such as Hurstpierpoint College, Great Walstead School, Burgess Hill Girls School and Brighton College. She produces limited edition prints and donates the original to the school. Collectors from around the world have bought Brenda's architectural watercolors.
Barratt comes from a long line of professional artists and has been painting architectural subjects for over twenty years. Her father, Chris Rooke, was commissioned to paint watercolours of important buildings thought likely not to survive World War II. One of his paintings is in the custody of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Barratt's painting on Space Shuttle In May 2010 NASA astronaut Piers Sellers took an original watercolor portrait painted by Brenda Barratt into outer space aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis flying its last mission, STS-132. Piers Sellers was a pupil at Cranbrook School, in Kent, and Brenda Barratt was asked by Angela Daly, the school's headteacher, to paint a watercolor of the school. The painting was then returned to Cranbrook School with the official NASA verification that it had travelled into space.
Schools where Brenda Barratt's paintings are displayed
Adams' Grammar School, Newport, Shropshire, England Ardingly College, West Sussex, England Arnold School, Blackpool, Lancashire, England Brighton College, Brighton, England Broadwater School, Surrey, England Buckswood School, East Sussex, England Burgess Hill School, West Sussex, England Caterham School, Surrey, England Cranbrook School, Kent, England Great Walstead School, Lindfield, West Sussex, England Handcross Park School, Haywards Heath, West Sussex, England Hawthorns School, Bletchingley, Surrey, England Hilden Grange School, Tonbridge, Kent, England Holmewood House School, Kent, England Hurstpierpoint College, West Sussex, England Kent College, Kent, England Lewes Old Grammar School, Lewes, East Sussex, England Malvern St James College, Worcestershire, England. Moira House School, Eastbourne, England Old Swinford Hospital, Stourbridge, England Reigate Grammar School, Surrey, England Sexey's School, Bruton, Somerset, England The Skinners' School, Kent, England St Andrew’s School, Eastbourne, England St. Bartholomew's School, Berkshire, England St Joseph's Collegel, Reading, Berkshire, England St Paul's School, London, England (architect: Alfred Waterhouse) St Swithun's School, Winchester, England Stoke Brunswick School, Ashurst Wood, West Sussex, England Tunbridge Wells Girls Grammar School, Kent, England Woldingham School, Surrey, England
References
External links Brenda Barratt's official website Brenda Barratt's House Portrait website Old Cranbrookians website Old Skinners' Society official website Caterham School official website - news January 2010 Lewes Old Grammar School website St. Bartholomew's School official website - news 30.04.2009 Burgess Hill School official website