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Exhibition Review: Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2015

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Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2015 - paintings past times prizewinners
see my prizewinners post for details
Yesterday I went dorsum to the Mall Galleries to come across the Lynn Painter-Stainers Exhibition 2015 without the do goodness of the rattling many bodies who packed the gallery on Mon black for the PV.

This year's exhibition has an additional characteristic at the entrance grade to grade the tenth anniversary of this Prize. There's a mini-exhibit inside the exhibition of paintings past times all of the previous winners of the Prize.

Paintings past times the winners of start 10 years of the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize

So - what did I mean value of the paintings selected in addition to the exhibition every bit a whole?

Well, this is ever i of my favourite exhibitions to see because of its emphasis on draughtsmanship in addition to representational art.
  • It ever offers a bully make inwards styles in addition to approaches to these 2 criteria for the operate selected. 
  • It's an exhibition which includes drawings every bit good every bit paintings in addition to the contrast betwixt monochrome in addition to color is also rattling pleasing. 
  • Plus the measure of artwork included is high
  • even if it inevitably has the strange operate where you lot actually do wonder what the judges were about!
One affair I did uncovering was a certainly chemical cistron of "me too"ism creeping inwards e.g. a minor icon which looked a lot similar a smaller version of finally year's winner, a drawing which did the same affair re. an before winner in addition to a drawing of the "motif of the moment" which is beingness done repeatedly past times many dissimilar artists. The affair is it's perfectly natural for artists to mean value "Well if they liked that peradventure I should do something similar". However what I desire to come across is absolute originality. I don't mean value I've made this type of comment before nearly this competition. So peradventure i for adjacent year's judges to ponder on.....

The terminate wall inwards the gallery
I took a number of photos in addition to every bit I was going circular noticed that the hang was rather good done. This postal service is going to hold upwards quite a visual commentary of groupings I liked.


Artwork I liked
transcend left: Beech tree past times Patricia Cain | Pastel,148x111cm £6,500
Bottom left: Homs City, Syrian Arab Republic past times Chris Shaw Hughes, Carbon drawing,42x30cm £1,800
Bottom right: Olivia Kemp, The plot ripens | Pen,84x70cm £2,000
Much every bit I similar Plagiarise at your endangerment - the Luc Tuymans case.  Of course of pedagogy if it's your ain photo, the issues around copyright infringement but don't arise.

Just around the corner wwere these 2 paintings which deserved a characteristic spot. You tin come across much larger versions of these 2 paintings on John Cahill's website. He uses amazing command over color in addition to brushwork to make these paintings which are essentially an exercise inwards pointillism

Sunlight on the morn frost Acrylic in addition to gouache,93x100cm £4,600
and
Pablo watching the doves Oil on paper,93x100cm £4,600
past times John Cahill
This is a corner where the figuration in addition to the color actually held my attention

Paintings by
Left: Isolation (London light) by Daniel Preece | Oil on canvas, 100x120cm £5,400
Top right: Hanseatic Walk by David Piddock | Oil on board, 60x117cm £7,500
Bottom right: West End cafe bar by Gethin Evans | Oil on panel, 51x102cm £3,500
Below are iii monographic works, i inwards ink, i inwards graphite in addition to charcoal in addition to i inwards pinkish biro! This is i contest which likes monochromatic plant in addition to in that place are unremarkably a practiced number of them selected for the show. I'm a large fan of Christopher Green's drawings which are all done on split upwards pieces of newspaper which are therefore out together to do i large picture.  I beloved the fact it took me ages to uncovering that the machine inwards the foreground is missing business office of its roof. The perils of drawing from life inwards a machine green where cars come upwards in addition to go!

Top left: Arena Shopping Park past times Christopher Green | Ink on paper, 89x126cm £1,800
Bottom left: Greek Island by Gary Lawrence | Biro on wallpaper, 62.5x123cm £600
Right: Eight equal piers (St Pauls distortion) past times Michael JF Chance | Graphite in addition to charcoal, 110x124cm £2,000
Note also that many plant are large - await at the dimensions of the plant listed!
These artworks looked practiced together
Below are some medium size pieces. You tin check out the dimensions here

Paintings by
(top row) Toby Ward, James Lloyd, Katie Sollohub
(bottom row) Stephen Parkinson, Rachael Gibson in addition to Alex Hanna
Jane Gardiner in addition to her teacakes 
below Ilaria Rosselli del Turcos's rather wonderful boxes
Some plant are non presented every bit good every bit they mightiness be.

For example, I liked the paradigm transcend correct (above) - withal I'd accept liked it an awful lot to a greater extent than if somebody had cleaned upwards the paradigm in addition to removed all the muddy fingermarks. They mightiness hold upwards contemporaneous but IMO they're non clever.  It's perfectly possible to build clean upwards an paradigm without removing the spontaneity inwards other areas. The affair is I flora my oculus exactly kept beingness drawn past times the muddy marks - in addition to that's non supposed to happen.

Has anybody noticed how many nests accept been drawn inwards the finally year? I've null against them in addition to admire those who accept a larn - but I do mean value it's fourth dimension to motility on to a novel motif which represents a drawing challenge;

For those who don't know her - but similar her operate - on the correct is Glaswegian creative mortal Jane Gardiner whose Teacakes were on the minor plant wall underneath the rather lovely boxes painted past times Ilaria Rosselli del Turco.

In my previous postal service I referenced the fact that i my ex-tutors won i of the runner-up prizes.

James Lloyd in addition to his minor white deer
My other tutor from the Drawing School, James Lloyd also in that place on Mon night. His icon of a minor white deer was also hung inwards the exhibition in addition to included inwards the portfolio of paintings on the website - although his advert was missed off Lynn Painter-Stainer Prize 2015: Selected Artists. I'm apt to innovate James to people every bit the alone mortal who has ever won the BP Portrait Award (1997) in addition to the Royal Society of Portrait Painter's premier prize - the Ondaatje Award (2008).

One finally note. I didn't similar the the catalogue this yr for 2 reasons.
  • colour reproduction seemed to hold upwards rather muted. Some of the pages looked 'greyed down' which was a large compassion every bit the exhibition contained some paintings amongst exciting colour
  • also I don't similar seeing the pictures beingness listed inwards the alphabetical gild of their artist's surnames. That's a purely administrative device in addition to the paradigm but don't conform beingness listed inwards this way. It's actually disappointing when you lot come across a bully large icon rendered rattling minor inwards a catalogue. I'd similar to come across the exhibition larn dorsum to having a catalogue where the plant are grouped inwards a agency which produces a pleasing page. The organisers tin ever add together on a number to the entry to signal which page the paradigm is published on.
The exhibition continues until Sabbatum - it's a compassion it's non on longer.

Links to previous posts nearly the Lynn Painter Stainer Prize in addition to Exhibition


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