Jeffery Stride was born in Southampton, England, in December 1946. He was educated at King Edward VI School in the same town then studied painting at Camberwell School of Art in London, graduating in 1968. After living in Wales for a few years he married and moved to France with his wife, Sally. They have lived exclusively from their painting ever since.
Selected one-man shows and exhibitions shared with Sally(*)
- 1980 Cahors Museum*
- 1981 Elaine Benson Gallery, Long Island, New York *
- 1982 Clarendon Gallery, London *
- 1983 Gallery Horizon, Paris
- 1985 Gallery Nichido, Paris
- 1986 Gallery Nichido, Paris
- 1987 Gallery Motte, Genève *
- 1988 Browse and Darby Gallery, London
- 1990 Gallery Francis, Gstaad
- 1992 Fountain Court, Temple, London *
- 1994 Centre Culturel de l'Aérospatiale, Toulouse *
- 1995 Gallery Triangle, Paris
- 1997 Fountain Court, London *
- 1999 Gallery Racine, Paris
- 2000 Gallery Blaive, Beaune
- 2002 Richmond Gallery, Toronto *
- 2003 Jointure Studio, Ditchling, nr Brighton*
- 2004 Jointure Studio, Ditchling, nr Brighton*
- 2005 Galerie le Biblion, Toulouse
- 2005 Burgh House Art Gallery, London
- 2007 Galerie Notre Dame, Paris*
- 2008 La Galleria, Pall Mall, London
Each year Sally and Jeff open their house in the Lot department of France for a summer exhibition of their work.
Jeff's paintings have been bought for numerous public and private exhibitions. Three of his paintings were selected as the official gifts to Tony Blair , Jacques Chirac and Lionel Jospin from the town of Cahors during the Anglo-French summit there in 2001.
He has designed and executed a ballet set for the choreographer Brigitte Dumez, described as "scintillating" by the newspaper "le Monde", and has painted a large decoration for a St Mary's Hospital, London.
One of his large landscapes hangs in the town hall of Toulouse, the famous "Capitole", and others are in the collections of the Conseil Générale du Lot, the Welsh Arts Council, the Southern Arts Association and in universities and hospitals in England.
In 2005 he spent several month in Bhopal central India painting at the site of the world's worst ever industrial accident in order to raise funds for the Bhopal Medical Appeal.