Kim Pragnell

B.A.(hons) 3D design Trent University
P.G.C.E Technology
RYA D.S
Lives in Dorset, near Shaftesbury

Background: joined Royal Navy aged 14 1/2, left seven years later.
Worked in boatyards, sea going tugs and cable ships, sailed yachts.
Studied Theatre Design at Nottingham University, 10 years as a professional theatre designer.
Studied for P.G.C.E Technology, Middlesex
20 years teaching Technology at secondary and upper level, including adults.
2010, finished teaching career, became professional painter of seascapes.
Ran painting courses at SPUDworks, Sway, Hampshire pre-lockdown.

Currently exhibiting at: Beyond the sea, Perranporth
Wildwood Arts, Dartmoor
Woolverton Gallery, Bath
Wychurch gallery, Oxford
Tincleton Gallery, Dorchester
Member of British Contemporary Art.

Exhibitions: Tincleton Gallery, ‘Land and Sea’(2017)
Shaftesbury Arts Centre’ Salt Water and Boats’ (2018)
Shaftesbury Arts Centre ’Salt water and Boats 2’(2020)
Sherborne Arts Society open (2010/12/16/18)
Black Swan Open, Frome. 2018
St Barbes Open 2018, 2019, 2021. Public choice and Highly commended.
Wales Contemporary 2020
Visual Arts Open. Finalist 2020
Symondsbury gallery, Bridport. ‘Salt water series 2’ (2021)
Dorset Arts weeks, 2019,2021.
Founder member of Dorset Romantics, art group. (2021)
Member of Dorset Artists and Shaftesbury Art Group.