The
70th Annual Exhibition of the
Royal Society of Marine Artists opened yesterday
at the Mall Galleries. It closes on Dominicus 25th October.
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| RSMA exhibition inwards the Main Gallery |
There are 329 paintings, prints, drawings together with sculptures inwards the exhibition inwards the Main Gallery together with the Threadneedle Space. For those unable to larn to encounter it, you lot tin
view the catalogue of the exhibition online. It's an fantabulous exhibition of diverse styles of icon inwards a largely illustration fashion.
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| View of the exhibition inwards the Threadneedle Space |
I'm afraid I was suffering from a frozen dorsum during my see to this exhibition together with was inwards absolute agony! Nevertheless I managed to larn circular together with establish the prizewinning paintings. I'm exclusively poor I wasn't able to report the other paintings inwards to a greater extent than especial - although I stimulate got highlighted some of the ones which struck me below - nether the prizewinners
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RSMA Annual Exhibition - Main Gallery
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| Variations of a marine subject - inwards the Main Gallery |
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| RSMA Annual Exhibition |
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| RSMA Annual Exhibition - some other corner of the Threadneedle Space |
Prizewinners
The Charles Pears Award
This observe commemorates the starting fourth dimension elected President of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. You can
read a spider web log ship service yesteryear Tony Williams - who won the £500 Charles Pears Award - on the Mall Galleries website.
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Ship amongst Moon (£1,595) yesteryear Tony Williams
oil
Winner of The Charles Pears Award |
The icon “Ship amongst Moon” has come upwards from a serial of romantic/nostalgia studies next brilliant summertime moonrises together with a looking dorsum to the days when I lived inwards S London every bit a man child together with fine art pupil cycling upwards to the river Thames a few miles away amongst my quondam camera. It is a dependent plain that allows me to indulge inwards my dearest of the constructivists, whilst mellowed yesteryear a romantic element.
The Artist Magazine Award
Jamel Akib will hold upwards interviewed for a characteristic inwards The Artist Magazine subsequently winning their award. The composition together with dynamic diagonals inside it brand you lot experience every bit if you're sailing inwards the boat amongst the crew.
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Pull 2 (£2,200) yesteryear Jamel Akib
oil
Winner of The Artist Magazine Award |
The Classic Boat Prize
Sheena Bevis-White - from the opened upwards entry - won this prize amongst her icon of Juno together with volition stimulate got her icon featured inwards Classic Boat.
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| Juno yesteryear Sheena Bevis-White |
The RK Burt Canson Paper Award
This is for plant on newspaper together with was won yesteryear
Margaret Heath RSMA. Her traditional watercolour has some wonderful qualities of light.
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Winter Sunrise, Lymington Quay (£795 - sold) yesteryear Margaret Heath RSMA
watercolour
Winner of the R K Burt Canson Paper Prize |
The Derek Gardner 'Sea together with Sky' Award
James Williams focused on paintings of waves together with that sometimes indeterminate horixzon business betwixt bounding main together with sky.
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Two paintings yesteryear James Williams
the superlative 1 - 'Into the Light' - won the The Derek Gardner 'Sea together with Sky' Award |
The Russell together with Chapple Canvas Prize
John Lines RSMA RBSA won this prize amongst a icon of a really large ship.
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Brisk Day Departure (£2,150) yesteryear John Lines
oil
Winner of the Russell together with Chapple Canvas Prize |
The Sea Pictures Gallery award
David Nixon painted a dependent plain which I approximate would most watercolour artists intend twice.
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Highrise (£1,000) yesteryear David Nixon
Watercolour
Winner of the Sea Pictures Gallery Award |
The Winsor & Newton Oil Prize
Bruce Williams won Winsor & Newton products to the value of £250.
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Breakwater together with Neptune (£3,000) yesteryear Bruce Williams
oil
Winner of the Winsor & Newton Oil Prize |
Other plant I liked
I don't ordinarily intend of monochrome every bit existence associated amongst Marine Art but I saw 4 plant which I idea worth highlighting.
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(Left) Next-the-Oceans VII (Aquatint) by Marianne Ferm
(top right) Walking the Pier (solar plate etching) yesteryear Despina Symeou
(bottom right) Beached (aquatint) yesteryear Stephen Asquith |
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| Wells adjacent the Sea (edition of 10) yesteryear Simon Dodd ARBSAlinocut £380 |
One of the things I noticed is that
paintings including figures were selling really well.
Particularly if they were children on a beach AND were good drawn/painted. There's a lot of famous painters who stimulate got painted children on a beach - amongst Singer Sargent together with Sorolla existence 2 of the to a greater extent than good known. This is an exhibition which provides an chance for the creative soul who likes icon figures - they simply postulate to observe a marine context!
Events together with workshops
There's
a arrive at of events together with workshops during the exhibition. Some are complimentary together with some stimulate got a fee for attendance.
Yesterday afternoon
Tim Hall gave a good attended demonstration of icon a marine scene inwards oils
2.00 – 4.30pm. We discussed my review of his icon which won the Charles Pears Award inwards 2014.
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| Oil icon demonstration yesteryear Tim Hall |
Today
Lorraine Abraham RSMA was demonstrating scraperboard inwards the Learning Centre
Tomorrow
Geoff Hunt PPRSMA is doing a workshop on
drawing ships together with boats Next calendar week at that topographic point are to a greater extent than demonstrations yesteryear members:
Plus there's a Vice President's Tour at 11am on the 21st Oct . On Midweek eve there's a maritime themed eve of stories from artists nigh commissions undertaken
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