Brand New!! The Pastel Guild - 115Th Annual Exhibition

I got to encounter The Pastel Society's Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries briefly this week. It must endure the foremost fourth dimension I've non had this review upward from the get-go - nevertheless it's soundless worth noting who won what, what the exhibition looked similar in addition to which pieces I liked! The artists are, of course of didactics roughly all twelvemonth long fifty-fifty if their exhibition isn't in addition to y'all tin contact the Gallery if you're interested inwards making a buy or commissioning an artwork

So this is going to a fairly visual ship service equally I'm soundless slogging through layouts for my majority - which happens to characteristic operate past times i of the prizewinners!  Of which to a greater extent than later.

Perspective on business office of The Pastel Society Exhibition

The exhibition accepts operate inwards Pastels, fossil oil pastels, charcoal, pencil, conté, sanguine, or whatever dry out media.

This year's exhibition looked really skillful hung on the walls. To my hear it looked a lot to a greater extent than contemporary than some of the annual exhibitions of some of the swain FBA societies. Which is non me proverb I liked all I saw which was trying to endure to a greater extent than contemporary - precisely I liked a lot of the exhibition.

(You tin discovery links to previous annual exhibitions of The Pastel Society at the goal of this weblog post).

Click the links inwards the artists' names to encounter to a greater extent than of their fine art on their websites or Facebook Page. You tin tell the relative size of operate past times comparison the size of the Blue Stickers which signify a winner - which are all the same size.


You tin too review The Pastel Society Catalogue on ISSUU (it volition opened upward to total size if y'all correct click the link inwards the championship in addition to opened upward inwards a novel tab). This agency y'all tin too encounter all the artists selected for the exhibition in addition to details of the industrial plant listed including prices.



The prizewinners


You may good guide keep seen the prizewinners on Facebook. Full marks to The Pastel Society for getting their prizewinners upward at the get-go of the exhibition in addition to doing some decent marketing of the exhibition on Facebook in addition to via Issuu - I'm certain it volition guide keep resulted inwards an increased awareness that the exhibition was taking place.

You tin encounter them below inwards alphabetical monastic enjoin of prize. Where I've taken a shot of a grouping of industrial plant past times the creative soul which includes the prizewinner I'll present the shot of the grouping hence y'all tin encounter the themes in addition to overall touching on of the artists' work.

Pastel Society Award for non-Members

1st Prize: The Colours of Venice (pastel on sanded newspaper 8" x 10") past times Tony Allain PSA (47cm x 50cm) £600
It's actually prissy to encounter a signature fellow member of the Pastel Society of America alongside an entry inwards the exhibition!  I promise nosotros tin await frontwards to to a greater extent than such entries inwards hereafter years! Tony is also a Master Pastelist of the Pastel Artists of New Zealand. You tin too follow him on his blog.

Winner of the Pastel Society Catalogue respect for Non-Members

Pastel Society Young Artist Award

BMW Combined Engine Cut Away Diptych past times Denise Cutts (Pencil) £2,000
Such a compassion it wasn't hung equally a dyptich. I can't discovery a website precisely did discovery a Facebook Page - precisely non a lot of fine art on it.

Winner of the Pastel Society Young Artist Award

Artists & Illustrators award


Winter Morning, Ronda (Pastel) £550 past times Sheila Goodman PS SWA
I ever await out for Sheila Goodman's operate equally she invariably produces something that I like. Looks similar Artists & Illustrators concord this year.

I've done this thought the other way circular
hence constitute it exceptional fascinating to encounter what Sheila made of it.
Great purpose of darks in addition to a proposition of depression cloud

Caran d'Ache Award Winner 

Warm Rocks in addition to Cool Water at Haytor Quarry, Dartmoor (50 x 50cm) £1,450 - Sarah Bee PS.
I ever await out for Sarah's operate at every Pastel Society Exhibition - she uses all the paradigm in addition to drawing aspects of pastels hence well. She was elected to the Pastel Society inwards 2005 in addition to has been a consistent prizewinner. I too really much similar that she frames her pastels equally paintings non drawings.
In July, she's exhibiting at Yvonne Arnaud Art 2014, presented by Guildford Arts, The Mill Studio, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 3UX. You can find out nearly her workshops on her website.

Warm Rocks in addition to Cool Water at Haytor Quarry, Dartmoor 
The winning operate past times Sarah Bee is bottom left - in addition to it too sold

Conte a Paris Award

Three trees  (Pastel) by Patricia Cain PS NEAC £6,500
One of the genuinely stunning walls inwards the exhibition comprised 3 industrial plant past times Patricia Cain - old winner of the Threadneedle Prize. I'm used to seeing lots of drawings of construction sites past times Patricia - in addition to this operate portraying hedges in addition to trees is a novel departure. As ever they operate on ii levels both equally structures in addition to when y'all await ore closely inwards terms of the multifariousness inwards purpose of colours in addition to markmaking - encounter below. These seem to stalk from an RSA Residency at the Barns-Graham TrustI encounter Patricia has a develop novel website.  Click on images to encounter them opened upward up to to a greater extent than images.

Three Trees past times Patricia Cain, Winner of the Conte a Paris Award,  is on the right
Part of Three Trees past times Patricia Cain - enlarged to present the nature of the mark-making in addition to purpose of colours

Daler Rowney Award

The Green Room (Soft Pastel) by Angela A'Court PS £3,000
She worked for many years equally an Interior Designer in addition to and hence became a total fourth dimension creative soul a few years back. In 2003 she moved to New York where she directly has her studio. She exhibits alongside the Highgate Gallery inwards the UK

The Green Room is the middle paradigm in addition to Daler Rowney prizewinner

Derwent Award Winner

Fields of Pink (Pastel) by Jeanette Hayes VPPS (67 x 117cm £1,700)
Jeanette's operate is ever total of rigid color patterns producing contrasts alongside to a greater extent than muted tones in addition to lots in addition to lots of interesting mark-making. She is too the Vice President in addition to Publicity Secretary - hence I'm guessing is inwards business office responsible for some of the improvements inwards the way the exhibition is publicised.

The overstep artwork is the Winner of the Derwent Awardand the ii below sold!

Faber Castell Award

Big Baby by Michele Illing (£1,500)
This operate was odd for ii reasons - first, the creative soul has terrific command over an analogous color palette revolving roughly a creamy white in addition to i doesn't commonly dogs of

Winner of the Faber Castell AwardNot the green pose for dogs inwards fine art exhibitions - precisely this i won a prize for Michele Illing

Frank Herring Award in addition to Henri Roche Award

Garden (top correct below) by Bess Avery (£800) won the Henry Roche Award and
Garden 1 (top left below) by Bess Avery (£800) won the Frank Herring Award
Her industrial plant guide keep a really contemporary in addition to decorative look. It's a nifty compassion that Bess doesn't seem to guide keep a website - all I could discovery were links to a really unpublic Facebook job concern human relationship in addition to her fellow member page on the Pastel Society website.  However Bess was the featured creative soul on the comprehend of the catalogue this twelvemonth in addition to too wrote some words nearly the processes she uses which y'all tin read inwards the online catalogue (see link nigh overstep of page)

Bess Avery won TWO awards!

John Longley Award

Across the Lagoon (pastel) past times Richard Turner (candidate for membership)
I really much liked this slice in addition to if his other industrial plant are too skillful I should think he stands a really skillful guide a opportunity of becoming a fellow member of The Pastel Society.

This respect winner is too a candidate for membership of the Pastel Society

PanPastel Award

Not inwards my Backyard (Pastel) by Annie Phelps £700  (this was selected from the opened upward entry).
I beloved this i - an odd subject, such a cheeky pose in addition to a funny title!

Winner of the Pan Pastels Award

Purcell Papers Award

Ceremonial entrance, Gwalior Fort (Pastel) past times Felicity House £850
I'm a huge fan of pastels past times Felicity House which is why her operate features inwards my book. What's non to similar - the design, draughtsmanship, color palettes in addition to mark-making are ever impeccable.  The operate underneath is called Goats at Jahangiri Mahal, Orcha.

Winner of the Purcell Papers award

Schminke Award

The Lavender Garden past times Claire Spencer PS (which for some argue I didn't photograph. I seem to recollect trying precisely it was really awkward equally it was hung side past times side to the stairs).

The Arts Club Award

After the rain (Graphite, charcoal in addition to pastel) by Janine Baldwin (£525). Nice to encounter a slice which uses graphite in addition to charcoal. It's a skillful reminder that the Pastel Society's criteria includes other dry out media.


Winner of The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award

Unison Colour Award

This way (Pastel) past times Janette Summerfield RBSA SWA (£430 Sold)
Janette has a really bold in addition to graphic way of using pastels which makes for a striking painting.

Two industrial plant past times Janette Summerfield, Winner of the Unison Colour Award


Works I liked

Here's a pocket-size pick from the industrial plant I liked

It was skillful to encounter some other pastel artwork past times Sophie Ploeg, concluding year's BP Travel Award winner whose exhibition 'The Lace Trail' opens at the National Portrait Gallery side past times side week.  This is Sophie's blog in addition to this is her Facebook Page

Lace Lines (Pastel) past times Sophie Ploeg
(it sold on the opening black for £1,650)
I really much liked this operate past times Patrick Cullen NEAC who's some other of those artists where it ever seems to me impossible to tell the difference betwixt his pastels in addition to his oils.

Scarecrow (Allotments nigh Alexandra Palace) past times Patrick Cullen NEAC

So I gauge the query is going to endure which of the fine art guild exhibitions coming upward volition have:
  • their consummate catalogue on ISSUU?
  • an article inwards DecoArt Magazine (this was the i for the Pastel Society)?
  • prizewinners beingness publicised on the 24-hour interval of the exhibition opening?
  • comprehensive publicity on Facebook?
That's really much amend than most fine art societies I encounter - in addition to is definitely something a lot to a greater extent than should think nearly emulating.


Links to reviews of previous Annual Exhibitions of The Pastel Society

2013 - Review: The Pastel Society - Annual Exhibition 2013
2012 - Review: "Love Pastels" - The Pastel Society Annual Exhibition 2012
2011 - Review: The Pastel Society's Annual Exhibition - Colour 2011 (updated)
2010 - The Pastel Society - Annual Exhibition 2010
2009 - Exhibition review: The Pastel Society's 110th Annual Exhibition
2008 - The Pastel Society U.K. - 109th Annual Exhibition

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