40Th Bp Portrait Laurels (2019) Shortlist

The shortlist for the BP Portrait Portrait Award 2019 was announced finally week. I'd been inspecting my inboxes for an electronic mail from the National Portrait Gallery too checking the NPG website on an almost daily reason for all of Apr to no avail.

I knew if I went away it would hold out announced - too thence it came to pass!!

So - 1 calendar week belatedly - here's the Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark analysis of this year's shortlisted portraits - too the artists who created them.

Four portraits shortlisted for 40th BP Portrait Award 


The portraits shortlisted for the BP Portrait Award 2019


  • Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester) yesteryear Emma Hopkins
  • Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium) yesteryear Massimiliano Pironti
  • The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen) yesteryear Carl-Martin Sandvold 
  • Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas) yesteryear Charlie Schaffer 
Interestingly nosotros have:
  • a completely novel ready of artists producing shortlisted portraits
  • three of the artists entered for the get-go fourth dimension this year
  • four portraits all purpose a portrait format
  • there are 2 pocket-size too 2 large portraits
  • ALL artists painted inwards oil
  • four unlike supports were used for the shortlisted portraits
Below at that spot is a brief summary virtually the contest too thence information virtually each of the artists

The BP Portrait Award 2019


The Open Entry


This year's opened upwards too international entry comprised 2,538 digital entries (minus 129 entries) from 84 countries (minus 4 countries).

Selected Artists


Only 44 portraits convey been selected.  This is a real meaning reduction on the number (50+) which convey been selected inwards the past.
  • 20 from the UK
  • 24 from international artists
Effectively this agency that over time, the number of United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland artists beingness selected for this contest has halved.  It's at nowadays real much an international contest - non a United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland one. I'll hold out publishing my weblog post virtually selected artists on Wednesday.

If yous desire a pocket-size epitome of your portrait included inwards my post delight shipping me an image.

The Judges were:
  • Dr Nicholas Cullinan, Director, National Portrait Gallery (Chair)
  • Gaylene Gould - Head of Cinemas too Events at the BFI Southbank + Cultural Ambassador for London appointed yesteryear the Mayor
  • GaryHume - artist (member of the YBAs too a painter but non known equally a portrait artist)
  • Dr. Alison Smith - Chief Curator of the National Portrait Gallery 
  • Des Violaris - Director, United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland Arts & Culture, BP and 
  • Zoé Whitley - Senior Curator of the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London.

Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019

BP Portrait Award 2018
  • Zoé Whitley - Senior Curator of the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London.

Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


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- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019

BP Portrait Award 2017

  • Zoé Whitley - Senior Curator of the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London.

Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


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- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


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- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019

Exhibition:
  • Zoé Whitley - Senior Curator of the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London.

Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019

BP Portrait Award 2016

  • Zoé Whitley - Senior Curator of the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London.

Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


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- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


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- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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BP Portrait Award 2019

BP Portrait Award 2015

  • Zoé Whitley - Senior Curator of the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London.

Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


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- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


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- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019

BP Portrait Award 2014

  • Zoé Whitley - Senior Curator of the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London.

Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019

  • BP Portrait Award 2014 - Call for Entries A review of why too how to acquire inwards the BP Portrait Award 2014 - summation how it tin practise goodness a portrait artist's career. 
  • Zoé Whitley - Senior Curator of the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London.

Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


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- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


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- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


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- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019

BP Portrait Award 2013


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019

BP Portrait Award 2012

  • Zoé Whitley - Senior Curator of the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London.

Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


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- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019

  • 20Zoé Whitley - Senior Curator of the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London.

Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019

  • 12 (Part 1) Focuses on a theory virtually what's of import to acquire selected. 
  • Zoé Whitley - Senior Curator of the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London.

Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


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- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019

BP Portrait Award 2011

  • Zoé Whitley - Senior Curator of the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London.

Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


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- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


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BP Portrait Award 2019

BP Portrait Award 2010

  • Zoé Whitley - Senior Curator of the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London.

Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


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- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019

BP Portrait Award 2009

  • Zoé Whitley - Senior Curator of the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London.

Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


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- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


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- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


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- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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BP Portrait Award 2019

BP Portrait Award 2008

  • Zoé Whitley - Senior Curator of the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London.

Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


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- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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BP Portrait Award 2019

BP Portrait Award 2007

  • Zoé Whitley - Senior Curator of the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London.

Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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Blogs Posts virtually Previous BP Portrait Exhibitions


BP Portrait Award 2019


Exhibition too Awards 


The winner of the £35,000 BP Portrait Award and other accolade winners volition hold out announced on tenth June 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London at the Awards Ceremony.

  • First prize: £35,000 + a committee worth £7,000 (agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist). 
  • Second Prize: £12,000 and 
  • Third Prize of £10,000 is also awarded. 
  • The BP Young Artist Award, amongst a prize of £9,000 goes to 1 selected creative someone aged betwixt xviii too 30. 

The exhibition volition hold out held at:

Artists shortlisted for BP Portrait Award 2019


Below yous tin uncovering profiles for each of the shortlisted artists


For what it's worth, my jurist is the First Prize has been won yesteryear Emma Hopkins. She's the creative someone who has developed a major profile prior to the historic menses of thirty - too whose icon of flesh is quite impeccable.

Emma Hopkins

Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
copyright Emma Hopkins
  • Age: (when she entered) 29 (born 28 May 989) eligible for Young Artist Award
  • Nationality: British (born inwards Brighton, UK)
  • Occupation: creative someone - focusing almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh
  • Current home: London/Brighton
  • Art education:
    • degree inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance (University of the Arts, London).
    • self-taught creative someone
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension she has entered
  • Website: http://emmahopkinsartist.com
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/emmahopkinsartist/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_hopkins_artist/
  • Memberships: member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2017). She has exhibited at the Annual Exhibition since 2015
  • Previous Awards:
    • 2015 The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards amongst The Arts Club-
    • The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition 2015
  • Title / Media: Sophie too Carla (1520mm x 920mm, crude on polyester)
  • Subject: portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet Canis familiaris Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection virtually people’s scars too the stories behind them.
I've seen Emma's paintings earlier too they are mesmerizing - inwards much the same way equally those of Jenny Saville (a previous Judge inwards this competition)

Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting, which focuses almost alone on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to empathize equally much equally I tin virtually what it agency to hold out human. We are non only the clothed someone nosotros acquaint to the world. We are the hear too torso that nosotros inhabit.”
She get-go exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club patch working behind the bar.
She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017

Below is her Facebook post finally calendar week too this is an interview which Lisa Takahashi of Jacksons Arts did amongst her dorsum inwards 2015




Massimiliano Pironti 


Quo vadis?
(900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
copyright Massimiliano Pironti 
  • Age: 37 (born 22 Dec 1981)
  • Nationality: Italian (born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome)
  • Occupation: Painter too Musical performer (latter since historic menses 16)
  • Current home: Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany
  • Art education: attended fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone (after teaching himself crude icon equally a teenager)
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: 2018 (he exhibited a icon of a beau dancer.)
  • Websitehttps://www.massimilianopironti.com/
  • Facebook Page: none (he does convey a Fan Page!)
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/massimilianopironti/
  • Title / Media: Quo vadis? (900mm x 600mm, crude on aluminium)
  • Subject: his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a one-time miller too manufactory worker at nowadays aged ninety-five. 
Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s habitation inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany for the icon process.
“My grandmother is an example of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her storey too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
As a dancer, Pironti is at nowadays good known inwards Italia for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. However he currently lives inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

He has a quite extraordinary bio on his website - amongst the dancing too surgical procedure artist's career running parallel amongst the painter

Carl-Martin Sandvold 


The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
copyright Carl-Martin Sandvold
  • Age: 37 (born xviii June 1981)
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Oslo, Norway
  • Art education
    • as a teenager he made street fine art on the streets of Oslo
    • studied at the Florence Academy of Art; the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York too Charles H. Cecil Studios
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Website: http://www.malekurs-oslo.com/
  • Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malekursoslo/
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlsandvold/
  • Title / Media: The Crown (500mm x 400mm, crude on linen)
  • Subject: a self-portrait
Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness hold out too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the honey of life amongst the noesis of death.
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s one-time estate on the outskirts of Oslo. 

Charlie Schaffer


Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
copyright Charlie Scheffer

  • Age: 27 (born 27 February1992) eligible for Young Artist of the Year
  • Nationality: British - born inwards London
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Current home: Brighton
  • Art education
    • studied at Central Saint Martins 
    • graduating amongst a grade inwards Fine Art from the University of Brighton inwards 2014
  • Previous appearances inwards this award: none - get-go fourth dimension he has entered
  • Websitehttps://www.charlieschaffer.com/
  • Facebook Page: none
  • Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/charlieschaffer/
  • Previous Awards: Has won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times. 
  • Title / Media: Imara inwards her Winter Coat (1200mm x 900mm, crude on canvas)
  • Subject: portrays Imara, a friend too an English linguistic communication Literature educatee he met after moving permanently to Brighton.

“She right away struck me equally someone who is uncompromisingly opened upwards too who wants to larn virtually anything too everything.” 
Sittings for the portrait took identify over iv months, amongst Imara posing inwards her warmest wintertime coat to withstand the studio’s mutual depression temperature conditions. Schaffer ready out to pigment only Imara’s face, but afterward added the coat after beingness inspired yesteryear Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro inwards the National Gallery, London, amongst its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.


BELOW are links to previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 

- AND I've been writing virtually it since 2007!  

Past prizewinners read my posts earlier they entered!

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