Brand New!! Review Together With Video Of The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Exhibition 2014

This is a video pan around the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Exhibition at the Mall Galleries courtesy of the novel mini iPad which is non peachy character because I forgot to switch on the HDV! I don't intend the video likes to movement also much - I ask to stick to my to a greater extent than sophisticated equipment for "walking around exhibition" videos!

However if viewed amongst the images which you lot tin run across on the contest website you lot tin instruct a much ameliorate feel of the function selected for the exhibition.

You tin instruct an fifty-fifty ameliorate feel if you lot instruct downward to the gallery - this is the in conclusion twenty-four hours of the exhibition!



This is the wall devoted to the Prizewinners as per my before weblog post Catherine Davison wins £15,000 Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2014.  Her paradigm concludes the video inward a higher house too is inward the centre below.

The Prizewinners too Runners Up
(click for a larger image)

The catalogue has some advice for prospective entrants. Steve Pill, the Editor of Artists too Illustrators makes the next observation which is worth quoting (and I've bullet pointed the key points)

A few practical tips to finish. Each judging panel volition live unlike exactly several mutual criticisms arose during the procedure that i intend powerfulness practise goodness hereafter potential entrants to (and other fine art prizes) inward the future.

• Firstly, consider each department of a composition before you lot laid out too know what you lot desire from every corner. Unresolved areas volition chop-chop detract from an otherwise skilfully painted picture

• Secondly, brand certain your color choices are every bit purposeful too considered. brilliant hues volition ever describe the optic too hence utilisation them sparingly for maximum impact.

• And finally, avoid paying also unopen attending to the works that accept been shortlisted for a contest inward the past. The temptation is to submit paintings on a similar subject or champaign of report to those that accept been successful before, exactly as this year's exhibition demonstrates, at that spot is ever space on the walls for fresh ideas too novel perspectives.

Things that I thought as I walked round:

• I practise wishing the online exhibition a ameliorate sense of size as good as the dimensions - I was disappointed yesteryear the size of some works.  Others I thought ameliorate of having seen their size inward existent life.  Maybe an choice sentiment which factored inward you lot were standing 3 feet inward forepart of it?
• There's fewer drawings this twelvemonth compared to previous years - or am I imagining this? Maybe people don't set drawings inward if they intend it's a prize near paintings?
• Instead what nosotros seemed to live seeing was to a greater extent than drawing inside paintings - including the prizewinner

The fundamental department of The Craggs at Dawn (from Carlton Hill) yesteryear Catherine Davison
- showing drawing inside paradigm too the many layered mark-making inside her painting
winner of the First Prize inward the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Competition 2014
crude oil on board, £3,500

(top) Amongst the plants at Kew Gardens yesteryear Kathryn Maple, watercolour £1,200
(bottom) Marylebone I yesteryear Debbie Ayles Watercolour too acrylic on newspaper £850
(last fourth dimension I saw her function it was winning prizes at the Bankside Gallery)

• Plus drawings which are rattling painterly such as Jeanette Barnes charcoal drawing of Grand Central Station (which volition live appearing inward my book) too Graham Flack's portrait using charcoal on canvas. 

Interior of Grand Central Station, New York yesteryear Jeanette Barnes
Charcoal, 118cm x 154cm, £3,600

• There were some rattling impressive watercolour paintings - yesteryear Paul Banning, Gordon McDowell, Stuart Robertson too Robbie Wraith

(top) Richard's workshop yesteryear Paul Banning, watercolour £3,000
(bottom) Varanasi I yesteryear Stuart Robertson RWS, watercolour £2,950

• As usual, I saw names I'm familiar amongst from fine art competitions exactly non too hence many artists I'm used to seeing inward fine art lodge exhibitions. Honourable exceptions to the latter are artists similar Paul Banning, Peter Brown, Patricia Cain, David Cobley, Patrick Cullen, Peter Kelley, Melissa Scott Miller, Robbie Wraith and Neale Worley. Is this a occupation of render - or demand?
• That said NEAC did seem to accept rather to a greater extent than represented than others!
• The paintings I'd dearest to hang on my wall whatever twenty-four hours of the calendar week are yesteryear an LPS regular - Eileen Hogan.  PS I had no thought until I came to write this postal service that I had notwithstanding 1 time again spotted the most expensive paradigm inward the room.

UL328, FH172, too FR59 yesteryear Eileen Hogan, crude oil on panel £20,000

I dearest this quote on her website

Light too shade accept ever been of import features of my work, specially shadows too the geometry of shadow patterns. Shadows enshroud too reveal; they suspension upwardly infinite too simultaneously become far understandable, notwithstanding elusive. Drawing too re-drawing patterns, leaving echoes of what was at that spot before, creates an ambiguity. It’s clear that they are there, exactly difficult to create upwardly one's heed if they permit you lot run across to a greater extent than or less.— Eileen Hogan, The Water Colour Expert Cassell, 2004

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