Brand New!! Review - Violet Constitute Of Stone Oil Painters Annual Exhibition 2017

I visited the annual exhibition of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters lastly week.

The exhibition was on Tuesday 28th Nov past times Philip Mould the gallery possessor who is besides host of the pop TV programme ‘Fake or Fortune?’

View of i one-half of the Main Gallery

This spider web log postal service covers

how you lot tin ship away - together with cannot - regard the art
a summary of what I noticed nigh the show - inwards damage of both numbers together with artwork
shout outs for

the artists whose go I liked best inwards the show
those artists who accept sold ii or to a greater extent than paintings
the prizewinners

and finally a listing of past times spider web log reviews of this annual exhibition if you'd similar to empathise to a greater extent than nigh this exhibition prior to submitting your paintings side past times side year.

Coastline together with beach scenes inwards the North Gallery

The Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI) helped to railroad train the tradition of crude ikon inwards the UK. Established inwards 1882, it gained violet condition equally an fine art club inwards 1909.

I RECOMMEND this year's exhibition:

it has LOTS of artwork of a high character past times both members together with non-members - amongst a mixed hang across the primary together with due north galleries
a high percent of the artwork is inwards oils (but non all).
you tin ship away regard many together with varied ways of applying crude pigment to a back upwards to create a picture. You tin ship away besides regard the extent to which the utilisation of acrylic tin ship away mimic crude pigment - or not.
The exhibition has a huge diverseness inwards damage of ikon styles, palettes of colour, brushwork together with dependent area matter.
Most of it looks equally if was painted using a brush together with NOT photographed using a camera. The exhibition besides includes some rattling painterly work.

I'm non quite sure when the ROI started to allow people submit go inwards acrylics but I do wishing they'd:

either alter their name
or stick rigidly to this beingness an exhibition of crude paintings.

I retrieve it's misleading to do otherwise... It needs to live i or the other. I was pleased to regard the extremely high percent of the exhibited go is inwards oils. Hopefully this is an aspect of the club that tin ship away live addressed over time.

It's was VERY interesting to notation that ALL the immature artists selected for the Young Artist Award ALL painted inwards oil.

I used to become to the PV nut forthwith tend to pick out to regard an exhibition inwards the mid/late afternoon (when it tends to live a flake quieter) merely subsequently it has opened. It agency I tin ship away regard the fine art properly together with besides larn decent photographs of it hanging inwards the gallery - which is virtually impossible on PV days.

How you lot tin ship away - together with cannot - regard the fine art inwards the exhibition

Some large paintings inwards the exhibition

You tin ship away regard The Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries until sun tenth Dec 2017. The galleries are located in The Mall (near Trafalgar Square), London SW1 - this is a google map showing the entrance. Hours are 10am-5pm daily including weekends, (and it loses at 1pm on the concluding day).

If you're a fan of ROI fellow member together with plein air painter Peter Brown ROI NEAC PS Hon RBA RP (aka Pete the Street) then, from Midweek sixth December, you lot tin ship away besides regard Pete's solo exhibition at Messums inwards Cork Street equally good equally the ROI exhibition.

Next week, the members of the ROI are available to come across visitors include:

Monday iv Dec (all day): Tony Merrick and Adebanji Alade
Tuesday five Dec (all day): Tim Benson
Wednesday vi Dec (all day): Bill Dean
Thursday 7 Dec (all day): Trevor Chamberlain and Ronald Morgan

The start go you lot encounter inwards the North Galleries

You tin ship away see selected plant from the exhibition online if you lot continue scrolling downwards the page.

If you lot click the TITLE of the ikon you lot tin ship away abide by out to a greater extent than nigh it together with how to purchase it - together with click i time again to abide by out to a greater extent than nigh the artist
You tin ship away brand an query nigh buying a ikon online

However it's NOT genuinely possible to regard ALL the artwork online - which I retrieve is both a compassion together with non helpful to overall sales.

Now people are so used to buying artwork online, it's absolutely vital to accept a rattling accessible virtual fine art exhibition (online) equally good equally a physical fine art exhibition (in the gallery) - peculiarly if an fine art club wants to promote its online sales for all the artwork exhibited.

That agency ALL members gearing upwards to reach goodness character digital images - or non having their go online. (Non members already accept to do this equally the submission is forthwith based on digital files.)

It would seem that rather a lot of ROI members accept non yet done this because, rattling oddly when I expect at the crude paintings inwards the Mall Galleries ain online "Buy Art" gallery, most of the crude paintings seem to live past times artists from other fine art societies - or non members exhibiting inwards the ROI exhibition! Which does genuinely seem a flake odd!

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 pocket-size alternative of the paintings I liked

I loved this stunning ikon of an apple tree amongst a Holbein bluish background past times Alex Callaway RBSA. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 rattling potent rival for my "Visitors Choice" vote. Alex is a fellow member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA) together with an Associate of the Art Renewal Center (ARC). While highly realistic it's besides fantastic at both showing color together with cast of the apple tree together with its leaves. The background besides reminded me somewhat of Holbein portrait paintings.

Wild Apple II by Alex Callaway

This ikon for a "Wow" from me - fifty-fifty earlier I read the championship together with realised it's been painted equally a memorial to a lady called Ada who was involved amongst the management of allotments.

Tribute to Ada past times Richard Baines FROI
oil £6,000

The painter is Dr Richard Baines who is a past times President of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters together with i of entirely 7 Fellows of that Society. He was besides a Senior Lecturer inwards Design History together with Academic Leader for Complementary Studies inwards the School of Fashion Promotion, has a doctorate inwards Design History together with has lectured at the British Museum, the Victoria together with Albert Museum, the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, the Wallace Collection together with the Museum of London.

There seemed to live a lot to a greater extent than panoramas this yr - together with a novel way of hanging them - equally amongst these past times Pete Brown and Natalia Avdeeva.

I retrieve Pete Brown genuinely ought to do a workshop on how to pigment genuinely pocket-size people - he's an expert!

Panoramic paintings of Edinburgh past times Peter Brown

and beaches by Natalia Avdeeva

I desire to emphasise that there's besides a LOT to a greater extent than go I similar inwards this exhibition. It was a rattling enjoyable afternoon's viewing....

Exhibition Metrics

It was pleasing to regard a goodness mix of paintings past times members together with non-members across BOTH galleries - emphasising unity across the exhibition.

This was besides reflected inwards percentages of artwork from members together with non-members amongst the percentages getting to a greater extent than or less 60:40 member/non-members.

A mix of subjects, paintings styles together with techniques together with color palettes on display inside the exhibition

In damage of sales, non-members were way out inwards front - inwards damage of numbers together with percent - of which to a greater extent than below.

Below you lot tin ship away find my summary of the metrics which volition involvement artists submitting paintings to the exhibition.

Numbers of paintings

The exhibition has 300 paintings inwards the Main together with North Galleries only. Unlike lastly year, the exhibition is entirely inwards the Main together with North Galleries - which surprised me given the popularity of crude painting.
These comprise:

271 paintings inwards the primary opened upwards exhibition (compared to 269 inwards 2016)
An additional 29 paintings past times immature artists aged 35 together with under (all non-members) hung inwards a department devoted to the Winsor & Newton Young Artist Awards - also ii to a greater extent than than lastly year

The department devoted to the Winsor & Newton Young Artist Awards
- includes FIVE OF THE AWARDS!

Of these 300 exhibited artworks:

184 (61.3%) artworks were past times 47 members (of the 64 total members) and
116 (38.6%) artworks were past times 74 non-members

Average issue of plant exhibited by:

members = 3.9 artworks
non-member = 1.5 artworks. While the bulk entirely had i ikon inwards the exhibition, at that spot were besides several selected via the opened upwards entry amongst 2, iii or iv paintings inwards the exhibition.

Of the 74 artists from the opened upwards entry,

3 are members of other national societies together with 2 are associates (most of which are based at the Mall Galleries).
Leaving 69 artists from the opened upwards entry amongst no affiliation to a national fine art society.
This besides suggests that the ROI is a 'first port of call' inwards damage of fine art societies artists desire to live a fellow member of.

Sales of paintings

My 'inner accountant' came out together with I did a "snapshot" count of the sales - checking the numbers sold past times members together with non-members subsequently iii days of the exhibition. This was inwards purpose prompted past times seeing a LOT of ruby-red dots!

Congratulations to the next artists who had all had at to the lowest degree ii sales when I visited: Linda Alexander (small soundless life), Michael John Ashcroft (small landscapes), Lucy McKie (small stillife), Barry Peckham, Maria Rose and Bryan Ryder .

Still life paintings amongst botanical subjects past times Linda Alexander ROI SBA - amongst ruby-red dots
(either side of the centre)

Paintings past times Lucy McRie - amongst ruby-red dots

My initial conclusions are:

37 paintings had sold by the terminate of Th of which sales past times type of creative individual equated to:

Members: 17 paintings (9% of the total hung past times members)
Non-members: twenty paintings (17% of the total hung past times non-members)

work hung inwards the North Galleries had generated to a greater extent than sales. I e'er experience this gallery has proportions to a greater extent than similar people's homes together with thus it's easier to imagine a ikon on a wall at home.

I may do some other update at the terminate of the exhibition!

Another catch of the start North Gallery

Artwork past times non-members tended to live smaller which mightiness trouble concern human relationship for why to a greater extent than sold inwards numerical together with percent terms. There's besides rattling clearly an appetite for rattling realistic paintings of soundless life involving botanical subjects.

Mezzanine Wall of Small Works inwards the Main Gallery

Frames PREVENT Sales

In my opinion, one of the reasons why first-class go past times members does NOT sell is that it is framed using rattling quondam fashioned frames. I've for certain seem members utilisation just the same frames for the lastly c.15 years - nevertheless judging past times the design, I wouldn't live inwards the to the lowest degree flake surprised if they are exhibiting go inwards frames they accept been using for the lastly 30-40 years

Some professional person artists postulate to wake upwards to 'the facts of frames'

every frame which does non 'fit' amongst a contemporary abode interior - agency a trip to the framers together with additional expense for the purchaser. Most constituent inwards the additional cost, fourth dimension together with endeavor inwards when considering the toll of artwork inwards an quondam fashioned frame - together with walk on by.
If an creative individual doesn't desire become to the endeavor of changing frames, so a discounted prize could (should?) live applied to allow for the fact the buyer volition postulate to reframe it.
Design together with interiors change.

What mightiness accept been rattling appropriate or fifty-fifty stylish equally a frame 20, thirty or twoscore years agone is non going to assist artwork sell today.
I tin ship away regard artwork inwards this exhibition which I retrieve would sell good if framed inwards a to a greater extent than neutral together with contemporary way. Instead it languishes without a ruby-red point inwards an quondam fashioned frame.

I wrote a spider web log postal service ii years agone Do frames assist to sell art? prompted past times the ROI exhibition. Besides highlighting the dissimilar type of frames it included an analysis of the types of frames on sold paintings past times toll range. I'm rattling inclined to become dorsum at the terminate of the exhibition together with do the same practise again....

I accept a tentative theory that at that spot is something of a correlation betwixt utilisation of digital agency to promote fine art (websites, Facebook, responsive templates etc) together with the updating of motion-picture exhibit frames.....

ROI Prizes together with Awards

The annual exhibition e'er has a issue of prizes together with awards n offering together with this yr is no exception.

Congratulations to the ROI for getting all the images together with names of the prizewinners on to their website shortly subsequently the PV

This yr I've dissever the awards into cash prizes, fine art materials prizes together with publication prizes.

Two prizewinners inwards this photo

Monetary Prizes

The Phyllis Roberts Award - £2,000
Lyme Regis Harbour by Tom Stevenson

The Alan Gourley Memorial Award - £1,000

Creative Progression by Adebanji Alade (Facebook: Adebanji Alade Artist)

ROI Awards

The Darlington Crystal Chalice for outstanding service together with contribution

to The Royal Institute of Oil Painters.

Abdulai, Ebola survivor, Freetown, Sierra Leone

past times Tim Benson (Facebook: Tim Benson Art)

The Le Clerc Fowle Award - This is the i I missed! Bill Dean ROI has won for his grouping of paintings inwards the exhibition.

The Stanley Grimm Prize - Two awards of £700, to the painters whose go have the most votes from visitors to the exhibition volition live awarded subsequently the terminate of the exhibition.

Art Materials (associated) Awards

There are many cash prizes together with awards available to win, including:

Winsor & Newton Young Artist Awards (for artists aged 35 or under) -

First Prize: £1,000
Second Prize: £600
Third Prize: £400 worth of Winsor & Newton Fine Art Materials

Winsor & Newton Young Artist Award

(1st Prize £1,000)

The Reading Lesson by Frances Bell (Facebook: Frances Bell Paintings)

Winsor & Newton Young Artist Award - Second Prize:
Falmouth Custom House Quay (oil) past times Maria Rose

Winsor & Newton Young Artist Award - 3rd Prize
Green Kitchen (oil) by Diana Savostaite

Winsor & Newton Non-Member Award
- £150 worth of Winsor & Newton Fine Art Materials
Bathurst Firewood (oil)by Benjamin Hope

The Menena Joy Schwabe Memorial Award - £250

Bernard by Julia Hawkins (Facebook: Julia Hawkins)

L. Cornelissen & Son Award
- a contemporary version of a Victorian Oil Painter's equipment
Tom Middleton (oil) past times Dorian Radu

Frank Herring Easel Award - an easel
Grey Skies, Yorkshire past times Michael John Ashcroft

Art Publication Prizes

The Artist Magazine Award
- a characteristic inwards The Artist magazine
Christina (oil) by Lucy McKie (on the left)

The Dry Red Press Award
- published equally a greeting carte du jour inwards the Dry Red Press 'Prize Winners' range,
with royalties from the sale of the cards going to the artist.
Tulips inwards Bloom by Peter Graham ROI

Previous Exhibitions

You tin ship away abide by links to my previous reviews of exhibitions below.

2016 - Review: Royal Institute of Oil Painters 124th Annual Exhibition 2016

Links for crude painters