Bp Portrait Abide By 2019: Artists Alongside Their Paintings
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If your portrait gets selected for the BP Portrait Award 2019 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London, you tin seem the next mightiness happen
You saw photographs of the prizewinners alongside their paintings inwards my previous post Charlie Shaffer wins BP Portrait Award 2019
The purpose of this post is to provide
In a agency it's a representation of all the 2,537 artists from 84 countries exactly about the basis who submitted locomote for the present together with the twenty Great Britain artists together with 24 International Artists who whose locomote was selected for the exhibition
The artists are organised past times the province where they alive at acquaint - although that is non e'er the province where they were born
The narrative below includes LARGE PICS - but you lot stimulate got to
Frances Bell RP SWA is a total fourth dimension professional person portrait together with landscape painter. In 2018 she was elected to membership of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2018. Born inwards Cambridge inwards 1983, together with raised inwards Suffolk, she is at nowadays based inwards Northumberland. She studied portraiture at the Charles. H. Cecil Studios inwards 2001 for 3 years, together with and then taught sporadically at the Charles Cecil studios for a farther 7 summers. She has exhibited widely together with internationally together with won a issue of prizes. Her locomote has been seen inwards numerous grouping exhibitions including those of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2005–18) together with the Society of Women Artists (2018). She was previously selected for the BP Portrait Award inwards 2012. In 2019, i of her paintings was awarded a Certificate of Excellence from the Portrait Society of America inwards this years International competition.
The portrait is of the artist’s friend, Edd, who has sat for her on previous occasions together with seemed to live a proficient choice for a life-size portrait. Bell was keen to capture a menstruation of intense thought, together with Edd’s latterly cutting pilus together with total beard suggested a philosophical air to her.
Bridget Cox - b. 1951. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 practising creative someone currently living inwards Cumbria. Trained at the Carlisle College of Art together with Design together with graduated alongside BA (Hons) grade inwards fine fine art (painting) from the University of Ulster, Belfast. Her locomote has been seen inwards solo exhibitions at Tullie House Museum together with Gallery, Carlisle; Queen’s University, Belfast together with the Clifden Arts Festival, Co. Galway, Ireland. Her paintings are inwards individual together with world collections inwards the UK, Republic of Ireland together with French Republic together with are listed on the Art Great Britain website.
Her portrait titled ‘Chinese Cloth’ is of the artist's friend. Hilary Linton of Brampton. She has sat for the creative someone on a issue of occasions. This has allowed Cox to shift her emphasis from the depiction of the external to the internal life. The complex tones were augmented past times Cox who says:
Vanessa Garwood - Born inwards State of Israel 1982, Vanessa studied ikon together with sculpture for 3 years at Charles Cecil Studios inwards Florence. Now she lives together with plant inwards westward London. Her locomote has been seen inwards grouping together with solo exhibitions inwards London together with was previously selected for the BP Portrait Award inwards 2006 together with 2018. She also plant equally a trustee for the charity, Dramatic Need, which builds fine art centres in sub-Saharan Africa.
The portrait is of Marcus, a professional person model, together with is i of a serial of life-sized manlike someone nude portraits on which Garwood is working. She says that her serial is close the woman someone gaze, but also:
Sarah Jane Moon - b. 1982 inwards New Zealand. She is a painter who specialises inwards portraiture together with figurative ikon together with explores identity, sexuality together with gender presentation.
In New Zealand she graduated inwards 2003 alongside BA - Art History, English linguistic communication Literature, Japanese Victoria University of Wellington together with inwards 2007 BA (Hons) Visual Arts Theory University of Western Australia, Perth. After coming to the Great Britain she studied for Diploma inwards Portrait Painting at The Heatherley School of Fine Art, London, Great Britain (where she at nowadays teaches regularly). She has exhibited extensively together with her locomote has been seen internationally inwards the exhibitions Queer Art(ists) Now (2017, 2018), the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2011, 2014–16) together with the Adam Portraiture Award at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery.
The portrait is of the artist’s friend Ronx, who is known for dressing inwards suits together with carefully-selected trainers. Ronx plant equally an Emergency Medicine Doctor together with is known to audiences from CBBC’s Operation Ouch! Ronx is respected for her active commitment to presenting a positive role model for BAME youth, together with particularly those from the LGBTQI community.
Sarah Jane is also a instructor together with is teaching for a calendar week on Skyros Island inwards Hellenic Republic (20th - 27th July), a Figure Painting Masterclass at the Art Academy inwards London (5th - ninth August), a Weekend Workshop at the National Portrait Gallery (10th & 11th August) together with an Introduction to Oil Painting Course at Heatherleys (12th - 16th August). (More details)
Luis Ruocco - an Italian creative someone born inwards Naples inwards 1974 who is living inwards a rattling repose suburb of London together with working equally an fine art teacher. Her portraits together with curt films stimulate got been seen inwards solo exhibitions inwards Naples together with London together with inwards grouping exhibitions including the Chelsea Art Society Annual Open Art Exhibition (2015–7).
The portrait is of Samila, the woman parent of a friend of the artist’s daughter. She agreed to sit down for her portrait together with the session lasted close xc minutes. Ruocco had e'er had the impression that despite her calm together with orderly exterior that communicates forcefulness to the exterior world, Samilia’s interior life is complex together with vibrant, equally she says: ‘like a passion fruit’.
Gandee Vasan - b. 1962 together with based inwards London. He is a lensman alongside an honours grade inwards fine fine art (painting). He won the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ Prize for a Young Artist inwards 1985, leading to a committee to pigment Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockdale for the Worshipful Company of Stationers together with Newspapermakers. He spent x years creating conceptual images for advertising inwards London together with Amsterdam together with worked at Getty Images. Vasan’s photographic locomote has been seen inwards the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery inwards 2005 together with 2012. He is currently project postgraduate studies inwards Computer Graphics together with Illustration.
The portrait is of the Irish Gaelic aunt of the artist’s wife, who lives inwards Canada. It was completed inwards i sitting of close 6–8 hours together with the artist’s aim was to capture her ‘indomitable spirit’ together with liberate energy equally a gift for her family.
Daniel Nelis - b. 1990 together with grew upward inwards a rural surface area of Donegal. Gained a BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting together with Drawing from Ulster University, Belfast earlier studying for an Art together with Design PGCE course. His locomote has been seen inwards the annual exhibitions of the Royal Ulster Academy (2011, 2013–18). He won the Royal Ulster Academy Portrait Prize inwards 2015 together with was the Ulster Artist of the Year (2009). This is an interview alongside Daniel Nelis
The portrait is of the artist’s partner, Andrea, together with was made at dwelling inwards Donegal inwards a serial of sittings over the wintertime of 2017-8. Nelis says:
Thomas Ehretsmann - Won sec Prize inwards 2017 together with also selected inwards 2016. He has also twice won the Society of Illustrators of New York Gold Medal.
Born inwards 1974 together with grew upward inwards Thann, inwards Alsace inwards France. Studied at the School of Decorative Arts inwards Strasbourg. He started his career equally a comic majority creative someone inwards 1998 together with later he moved into illustration. Worked equally an illustrator for magazines together with publishers, notably Elle Magazine for 7 years equally good equally The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, together with diverse European together with American books together with journal.
For portrait ikon Thomas plant inwards acrylic but paints rattling slow using a rattling pocket-sized hatching grade - equally if using egg tempera. See my Interview alongside Thomas Ehretsmann (BP Portrait Award 2017 2rd Prize).
Fakhri Bohang - born inwards Republic of Indonesia inwards 1988. Now lives together with plant inwards Köln, Germany. His locomote has been seen inwards numerous grouping exhibitions inwards Germany, Espana together with Republic of Bulgaria together with inwards the Great Britain at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters exhibition, 2016.
The portrait is of the artist’s friend, Papise. The portrait is role of an ongoing projection to portray sitters alongside a multifariousness of cultural backgrounds inwards a trend similar to the photographic formats preferred for identity documents. Bohang is interested inwards the amount of information close a sitter’s identity than tin live drawn from such a restricted composition.
Marco Krauwinkel - born 1980 inwards the Netherlands. Marco is self-taught together with began to report the ikon methods together with techniques of the Old Masters after visiting the Rijksmuseum inwards 2013. At the kickoff of 2018 he gave upward his teaching task together with became a full-time artist. First fourth dimension inwards the BP.
It's a rattling formal together with good painted portrait painting. It's also i which is most odd inwards the sense that it captures ii partners who come about to live both men. The arm across the shoulder together with the manus on the knee articulation are at that spot but aren't what you lot firstly notice equally the faces capture your attention.
The purpose of the ikon was to capture his manlike someone parent Peter (on the right) alongside his electrical flow partner (on the left). Marco took a risk when ikon the portrait due to the theatre unit of measurement tensions betwixt his woman parent together with the ii men. However the ikon of the portrait together with capturing the nature of the human relationship betwixt the ii men proved to live a revelation for his woman parent who began to admit the depth of feeling betwixt the ii men. Family members also started to stimulate got each other for who they genuinely are.
Bas Nijenhuis - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Dutch figurative painter who studied Painting at Klassieke Academie voor Schilderkunst. He also has an MA grade inwards psychology at the Klassieke Academie voor Schilderkunst, Groningen
His portrait is titled "'Girl without pearl earring'". It's of Fareda, a immature adult woman who has albinism who Nijenhuis firstly saw on the street together with approached to enquire if she would sit down for her portrait. Like much of his work, this portrait references together with reinterprets traditional Dutch art, such equally inwards the job hither of an antique frame.
His locomote has been published inwards numerous magazines together with periodicals inwards the Netherlands together with exhibitions including Pictura Groningen (2017) together with Kunst und Cultuur, Assen (2018). This is his firstly fourth dimension inwards the BP.
I'm rattling critical of the agency a issue of smaller portraits stimulate got been hung. It is neither possible to persuasion the ikon properly nor for the creative someone to live photographed side past times side to their ikon - equally happened inwards this instance. Bas is a tall human together with his portrait is hung some feet higher upward the top of his head!!
Iván Chacón (b.1989) undertook a BA grade inwards fine arts, followed past times an MA inwards ikon at the University of the Basque Country. His locomote was selected for the Hotel Carlton, Bilbao ikon prize inwards 2014, going on to win firstly prize inwards 2015. He has had a solo exhibition inwards Bilbao.
The portrait is of the artist’s relative, Aurelio, who Chacón was inspired to pigment after watching him taking role inwards a theatre unit of measurement conversation over Christmas. Chacón realised that rather than searching for a subject, he should exactly pigment what was inwards forepart of him together with was keen to capture the confidence inwards Aurelio’s seem together with gestures.
Miguel Angel Oyarbide - b.1954 together with based inwards Madrid Spain. His fine art preparation comprised working equally an assistant to the sculptor Francisco Espinós, followed past times formal preparation inwards ikon at the Superior School of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid for which he was awarded a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. He has paintings inwards the permanent collections of Museo Nacional de Dibujo (Huesca), Ubeda City Hall (Jaén), Royal Heritage Site of San Fernando de Henares (Madrid), Museo de Toral de los Guzmanes (León), Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Azuaga (Badajoz), together with Cultural Heritage of Caja de Ávila.
He mainly paints rather overnice landscapes. His paintings stimulate got exhibited inwards numerous grouping together with solo exhibitions inwards his native Espana together with are held inwards individual together with world collections.
His ikon of the artist’s mother, Margot, together with commemorates her 90th birthday.
Ola Sarri - b. 1980. A Swedish figurative together with portrait creative someone who is largely self-trained together with who prefers to pigment inwards oil. His studio is exactly exterior Båstad, side past times side to a nature reserve on Bjärehalvön inwards Skåne. He mostly plant to committee for individual collections together with organisations. His locomote has also been seen inwards group, juried together with solo exhibitions Sweden.
The portrait is of the artist’s partner, Hanna, whom he has painted several times inwards the course of report of their relationship. He says:
Kyle David Hooper - born inwards Milton, MA inwards 1985. Attended the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University and graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art together with Design. His locomote was selected for inclusion inwards the Guild of Boston Artists Annual Regional Juried Exhibition 2017. First fourth dimension inwards the BP.
The portrait is of the artist’s 92-year-old grandfather, Theodore. The sittings took identify piece the ii men shared breakfast on Dominicus mornings together with enjoyed each other’s company. Theodore died earlier the ikon was completed, together with although returning to dependent plain was painful for Hooper, he was able to destination it from the crude oil studies together with reference fabric he had made piece they sat together.
Denis Dalesio - b.1991 Stamford, Connecticut. Graduated 2016 alongside B.F.A from Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts. First fourth dimension inwards the BP.
Currently is working together with living inwards Norwalk, Connecticut together with project a Master of Fine Arts course of report at New York Academy of Art. His locomote has been seen inwards grouping exhibitions inwards the USA.
Denis Dalesio (b.1991) gained a Bachelor of Fine Arts grade from Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, CT, together with is currently
The portrait is of the artist’s friend Milo, whom he met though Instagram. Dalesio says: ‘We speedily bonded over ikon together with became unopen friends despite living inwards ii dissimilar countries. When nosotros met inwards person, I decided to pigment this portrait. I felt it would live interesting to scale it to the size together with crop that I had locomote familiar to seeing him inwards online.’
Tina Oršolić Dalessio - Facebook - a figurative painter born together with raised inwards Zagreb, Croatia. (Wife of Mark Dalessio) First fourth dimension inwards the BP.
She holds a bachelor’s grade from University of Zagreb Law School, an LL.M. grade from the University of Michigan Law School together with a PhD grade from the University of Maastricht, Faculty of Law. She gave upward beingness a lawyer to locomote a painter together with graduated from Florence Academy of Art inwards June 2018. Her portrait is her Final Project at the Florence Academy of Art.
Her portrait is on i of the banners on the exterior of the NPG.
Brendan H Johnston - (b.1984, New York City) a immature painter together with sculptor dedicated to representational fine art. Graduated from McGill University alongside a Major inwards Art History together with Humanities. Lives inwards New York City together with teaches at the Grand Central Atelier. His locomote has been seen inwards grouping exhibitions inwards New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco together with Paris. First fourth dimension inwards the BP.
The portrait is of Jamaal, a fellow-artist together with friend of Johnston. Jamaal agreed to sit down for this portrait which was painted alone from life. It was non until Johnston had difficulties completing the locomote that he position the reddish together with cream striped jumper onto a mannequin together with added it to destination the work.
He says of the subject:
Scott Lancashire b.1952 inwards Oberlin Ohio. Currently based inwards Boulder, Colorado. First fourth dimension inwards the BP.
He graduated alongside a BS grade from University of Wyoming (1974) together with alongside grade inwards Architecture course of report at Arizona State University (1979). He is a licensed architect inwards the province of Colorado. His paintings stimulate got been seen inwards grouping exhibitions inwards Colorado together with New Mexico.
His paintings are rattling focused on structure, shape together with musical note together with he has a sensitive approach to colour.
The portrait is of Dieja, a model together with friend of the creative someone who has sat regularly for Lancashire over the past times ii years. Dieja is proud of her natural hairstyle, but on this occasion, unusually, she had wrapped it inwards a tight scarf. Lancashire was surprised at how this changed her seem together with worked speedily to capture the transformation inwards a two-hour sitting.
[NOTE: I was exactly within the forepart doors of the National Portrait Gallery, waiting inwards job to stimulate got my handbag checked when I turned around. Scott was exactly behind together with straightaway said "You're Katherine". Scott wins the prize for the fastest fourth dimension EVER for me beingness identified past times an creative someone at an exhibition!]
Manu Saluja - (b.1971) studied psychology earlier project a Bachelor of Fine Arts grade inwards instance at the at the School of Visual Arts, receiving her BFA inwards 1997. MFA inwards Painting from the New York Academy of Art. Currently adjunct faculty inwards their Continuing Studies Department. Her locomote has been seen inwards solo exhibitions inwards the USA together with Canada together with inwards numerous grouping exhibitions including regular selection for the American Women Artists Juried Exhibition together with the Portrait Society of America Award. She also teaches drawing together with ikon at the Long Island Academy of Fine Art.
- your portrait volition live seen past times over 200,000 people visiting the exhibition - together with to a greater extent than exactly about the Great Britain over the side past times side 12 months
- your CV volition live rattling much enhanced past times selection for this prestigious exhibition - which rattling much helps when trying to involvement other galleries inwards your work
- your website volition learn enquiries for portrait commissions - (assuming you lot stimulate got i together with it provides decent information close commissions!)
- you learn photographed alongside your ikon for this weblog post!
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| BP Portrait Award Exhibition - Porter Gallery at the National Portrait Gallery, London |
Artists alongside their Paintings
You saw photographs of the prizewinners alongside their paintings inwards my previous post Charlie Shaffer wins BP Portrait Award 2019
The purpose of this post is to provide
- an insight into the age, teaching together with experience of the creative someone together with something of the storey behind the painting. Not all artists are experienced and/or professional person - a issue are enthusiastic amateurs, others are starting out on their careers together with some stimulate got been working equally portrait painters for some time.
- an thought of the size of portraits selected for the exhibition - past times including the portrait painter side past times side to their ikon (where feasible)!
- attended the Press View
- AND I managed to spot together with enquire them to live photographed alongside their paintings. (Artlist Labels are rattling helpful!). It thence excludes those who were unable to brand the trip.
In a agency it's a representation of all the 2,537 artists from 84 countries exactly about the basis who submitted locomote for the present together with the twenty Great Britain artists together with 24 International Artists who whose locomote was selected for the exhibition
The artists are organised past times the province where they alive at acquaint - although that is non e'er the province where they were born
The narrative below includes LARGE PICS - but you lot stimulate got to
- click the pic to come across the large version - to come across the larger version
- click the link below the narrative - to locomote to the artist's website.
Click the images to come across a LARGER VERSION
UK - England
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| Rumination © Frances Bell |
The portrait is of the artist’s friend, Edd, who has sat for her on previous occasions together with seemed to live a proficient choice for a life-size portrait. Bell was keen to capture a menstruation of intense thought, together with Edd’s latterly cutting pilus together with total beard suggested a philosophical air to her.
- Website: https://www.francesbellpaintings.co.uk/
- Social media: Facebook Page
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| Chinese Cloth © Bridget Cox |
Bridget Cox - b. 1951. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 practising creative someone currently living inwards Cumbria. Trained at the Carlisle College of Art together with Design together with graduated alongside BA (Hons) grade inwards fine fine art (painting) from the University of Ulster, Belfast. Her locomote has been seen inwards solo exhibitions at Tullie House Museum together with Gallery, Carlisle; Queen’s University, Belfast together with the Clifden Arts Festival, Co. Galway, Ireland. Her paintings are inwards individual together with world collections inwards the UK, Republic of Ireland together with French Republic together with are listed on the Art Great Britain website.
Her portrait titled ‘Chinese Cloth’ is of the artist's friend. Hilary Linton of Brampton. She has sat for the creative someone on a issue of occasions. This has allowed Cox to shift her emphasis from the depiction of the external to the internal life. The complex tones were augmented past times Cox who says:
‘I chose the wearing of the chapeau to emphasise the shape of Hillary’s caput together with for the interplay of color together with texture within the image.
- Website: https://www.bridgetcoxart.com/
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| Marcus © Vanessa Garwood |
Vanessa Garwood - Born inwards State of Israel 1982, Vanessa studied ikon together with sculpture for 3 years at Charles Cecil Studios inwards Florence. Now she lives together with plant inwards westward London. Her locomote has been seen inwards grouping together with solo exhibitions inwards London together with was previously selected for the BP Portrait Award inwards 2006 together with 2018. She also plant equally a trustee for the charity, Dramatic Need, which builds fine art centres in sub-Saharan Africa.
The portrait is of Marcus, a professional person model, together with is i of a serial of life-sized manlike someone nude portraits on which Garwood is working. She says that her serial is close the woman someone gaze, but also:
‘a celebration of manlike someone beauty inwards a fourth dimension where nosotros are inundated alongside oftentimes quite negative together with over sexualised imagery of the nude.’
- Website: http://www.vanessagarwood.com/
- Social Media: Facebook Page
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| Dr Ronx © Sarah Jane Moon |
Sarah Jane Moon - b. 1982 inwards New Zealand. She is a painter who specialises inwards portraiture together with figurative ikon together with explores identity, sexuality together with gender presentation.
In New Zealand she graduated inwards 2003 alongside BA - Art History, English linguistic communication Literature, Japanese Victoria University of Wellington together with inwards 2007 BA (Hons) Visual Arts Theory University of Western Australia, Perth. After coming to the Great Britain she studied for Diploma inwards Portrait Painting at The Heatherley School of Fine Art, London, Great Britain (where she at nowadays teaches regularly). She has exhibited extensively together with her locomote has been seen internationally inwards the exhibitions Queer Art(ists) Now (2017, 2018), the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2011, 2014–16) together with the Adam Portraiture Award at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery.
The portrait is of the artist’s friend Ronx, who is known for dressing inwards suits together with carefully-selected trainers. Ronx plant equally an Emergency Medicine Doctor together with is known to audiences from CBBC’s Operation Ouch! Ronx is respected for her active commitment to presenting a positive role model for BAME youth, together with particularly those from the LGBTQI community.
Sarah Jane is also a instructor together with is teaching for a calendar week on Skyros Island inwards Hellenic Republic (20th - 27th July), a Figure Painting Masterclass at the Art Academy inwards London (5th - ninth August), a Weekend Workshop at the National Portrait Gallery (10th & 11th August) together with an Introduction to Oil Painting Course at Heatherleys (12th - 16th August). (More details)
- Website: https://sarahjanemoon.com/home.html
- Social Media: Facebook | Instagram (private)
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| Passion Fruit © Luis Ruocco |
Luis Ruocco - an Italian creative someone born inwards Naples inwards 1974 who is living inwards a rattling repose suburb of London together with working equally an fine art teacher. Her portraits together with curt films stimulate got been seen inwards solo exhibitions inwards Naples together with London together with inwards grouping exhibitions including the Chelsea Art Society Annual Open Art Exhibition (2015–7).
The portrait is of Samila, the woman parent of a friend of the artist’s daughter. She agreed to sit down for her portrait together with the session lasted close xc minutes. Ruocco had e'er had the impression that despite her calm together with orderly exterior that communicates forcefulness to the exterior world, Samilia’s interior life is complex together with vibrant, equally she says: ‘like a passion fruit’.
I am rattling passionate close people that’s why I am deeply interested inwards portraits. I come across the human figure inwards dissimilar ways. I tin pigment the rattling emotional side of the persona focusing on her soul using deep reddish together with blueish colors.
- Website: http://www.luisruocco.com/
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| Aunty Therese © Gandee Vasan- alongside Aunty Therese! |
The portrait is of the Irish Gaelic aunt of the artist’s wife, who lives inwards Canada. It was completed inwards i sitting of close 6–8 hours together with the artist’s aim was to capture her ‘indomitable spirit’ together with liberate energy equally a gift for her family.
- Website: https://www.gandeevasan.com/ (mainly photographic)
- Social Media: Twitter | Instagram
UK - Northern Ireland
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| Untitled (November) © Daniel Nelis - alongside Andrea |
The portrait is of the artist’s partner, Andrea, together with was made at dwelling inwards Donegal inwards a serial of sittings over the wintertime of 2017-8. Nelis says:
‘These even so moments of repose contemplation that are of greatest involvement inwards my work, those moments of intense reflection inwards the bright reality of the present.’
- Website: none
- Social Media: none
Europe - France
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| Openings © Thomas Ehretsmann Acrylic on forest panel 48 x 48cm (2014-2018) |
Thomas Ehretsmann - Won sec Prize inwards 2017 together with also selected inwards 2016. He has also twice won the Society of Illustrators of New York Gold Medal.
Born inwards 1974 together with grew upward inwards Thann, inwards Alsace inwards France. Studied at the School of Decorative Arts inwards Strasbourg. He started his career equally a comic majority creative someone inwards 1998 together with later he moved into illustration. Worked equally an illustrator for magazines together with publishers, notably Elle Magazine for 7 years equally good equally The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, together with diverse European together with American books together with journal.
For portrait ikon Thomas plant inwards acrylic but paints rattling slow using a rattling pocket-sized hatching grade - equally if using egg tempera. See my Interview alongside Thomas Ehretsmann (BP Portrait Award 2017 2rd Prize).
- Website: http://www.thomas-ehretsmann.com/en/
- Social Media: Facebook | Behance | Instagram
Europe - Germany
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| My Skin is Black My Collar is White © Fakhri Bohang |
Fakhri Bohang - born inwards Republic of Indonesia inwards 1988. Now lives together with plant inwards Köln, Germany. His locomote has been seen inwards numerous grouping exhibitions inwards Germany, Espana together with Republic of Bulgaria together with inwards the Great Britain at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters exhibition, 2016.
The portrait is of the artist’s friend, Papise. The portrait is role of an ongoing projection to portray sitters alongside a multifariousness of cultural backgrounds inwards a trend similar to the photographic formats preferred for identity documents. Bohang is interested inwards the amount of information close a sitter’s identity than tin live drawn from such a restricted composition.
- Website: http://forwereallbornnaked.blogspot.com/
- Social Media: Instagram
Europe - Netherlands
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| Father alongside Partner © Marco Krauwinkel Oil on linen eighty x 110 cm | 2018 |
It's a rattling formal together with good painted portrait painting. It's also i which is most odd inwards the sense that it captures ii partners who come about to live both men. The arm across the shoulder together with the manus on the knee articulation are at that spot but aren't what you lot firstly notice equally the faces capture your attention.
The purpose of the ikon was to capture his manlike someone parent Peter (on the right) alongside his electrical flow partner (on the left). Marco took a risk when ikon the portrait due to the theatre unit of measurement tensions betwixt his woman parent together with the ii men. However the ikon of the portrait together with capturing the nature of the human relationship betwixt the ii men proved to live a revelation for his woman parent who began to admit the depth of feeling betwixt the ii men. Family members also started to stimulate got each other for who they genuinely are.
- Website: https://www.marcokrauwinkel.com/?lang=en
- Social Media: Facebook | Instagram
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| Girl without Pearl Earring (top) © Bas Nijenhuis |
Bas Nijenhuis - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Dutch figurative painter who studied Painting at Klassieke Academie voor Schilderkunst. He also has an MA grade inwards psychology at the Klassieke Academie voor Schilderkunst, Groningen
His portrait is titled "'Girl without pearl earring'". It's of Fareda, a immature adult woman who has albinism who Nijenhuis firstly saw on the street together with approached to enquire if she would sit down for her portrait. Like much of his work, this portrait references together with reinterprets traditional Dutch art, such equally inwards the job hither of an antique frame.
His locomote has been published inwards numerous magazines together with periodicals inwards the Netherlands together with exhibitions including Pictura Groningen (2017) together with Kunst und Cultuur, Assen (2018). This is his firstly fourth dimension inwards the BP.
I'm rattling critical of the agency a issue of smaller portraits stimulate got been hung. It is neither possible to persuasion the ikon properly nor for the creative someone to live photographed side past times side to their ikon - equally happened inwards this instance. Bas is a tall human together with his portrait is hung some feet higher upward the top of his head!!
- Website: http://www.basnijenhuis.com/
- Social Media: Vimeo | Facebook | Blog (all inwards Dutch) | Instagram
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| Girl without pearl earring by Bas Nijenhuisoil on panel lx x forty cm |
Europe - Spain
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| Aurelio © Iván Chacón |
Iván Chacón (b.1989) undertook a BA grade inwards fine arts, followed past times an MA inwards ikon at the University of the Basque Country. His locomote was selected for the Hotel Carlton, Bilbao ikon prize inwards 2014, going on to win firstly prize inwards 2015. He has had a solo exhibition inwards Bilbao.
The portrait is of the artist’s relative, Aurelio, who Chacón was inspired to pigment after watching him taking role inwards a theatre unit of measurement conversation over Christmas. Chacón realised that rather than searching for a subject, he should exactly pigment what was inwards forepart of him together with was keen to capture the confidence inwards Aurelio’s seem together with gestures.
- Website: ?
- Social Media: ?
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| Ninety Years © Miguel Angel Oyarbide |
Miguel Angel Oyarbide - b.1954 together with based inwards Madrid Spain. His fine art preparation comprised working equally an assistant to the sculptor Francisco Espinós, followed past times formal preparation inwards ikon at the Superior School of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid for which he was awarded a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. He has paintings inwards the permanent collections of Museo Nacional de Dibujo (Huesca), Ubeda City Hall (Jaén), Royal Heritage Site of San Fernando de Henares (Madrid), Museo de Toral de los Guzmanes (León), Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Azuaga (Badajoz), together with Cultural Heritage of Caja de Ávila.
He mainly paints rather overnice landscapes. His paintings stimulate got exhibited inwards numerous grouping together with solo exhibitions inwards his native Espana together with are held inwards individual together with world collections.
His ikon of the artist’s mother, Margot, together with commemorates her 90th birthday.
‘Her facial seem together with hands serve equally a metaphor for her life, marked past times the Castilian Civil War, exile together with severe scarcity of resources, but bringing upward vi children alongside dearest together with compassion.’I mean value he ought to pigment to a greater extent than portraits equally it is an first-class portrait ikon of an older lady.
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| Just the caput of his woman parent aged xc - past times Miguel Angel Oyarbide |
- Website: http://miguelangeloyarbide.blogspot.com
- Social Media: Behance | Instagram | Twitter
Europe - Sweden
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| Smoke Break © Ola Sarri - alongside Hanna |
Ola Sarri - b. 1980. A Swedish figurative together with portrait creative someone who is largely self-trained together with who prefers to pigment inwards oil. His studio is exactly exterior Båstad, side past times side to a nature reserve on Bjärehalvön inwards Skåne. He mostly plant to committee for individual collections together with organisations. His locomote has also been seen inwards group, juried together with solo exhibitions Sweden.
The portrait is of the artist’s partner, Hanna, whom he has painted several times inwards the course of report of their relationship. He says:
‘I wanted to convey self-confidence together with mindfulness. I aimed for a unproblematic together with clear statement, so alongside minimal instructions, I allow Hanna autumn into a comfortable yet theatre pose... a minute of peace together with quiet, nada more, nada less.’
- Website: https://olasarri.com/
- Social Media: Facebook | Behance
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| Theodore © Kyle Hooper |
The portrait is of the artist’s 92-year-old grandfather, Theodore. The sittings took identify piece the ii men shared breakfast on Dominicus mornings together with enjoyed each other’s company. Theodore died earlier the ikon was completed, together with although returning to dependent plain was painful for Hooper, he was able to destination it from the crude oil studies together with reference fabric he had made piece they sat together.
- Website: http://www.kyledavidhooper.com/
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| Milo © Denis Dalesio |
Denis Dalesio - b.1991 Stamford, Connecticut. Graduated 2016 alongside B.F.A from Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts. First fourth dimension inwards the BP.
Currently is working together with living inwards Norwalk, Connecticut together with project a Master of Fine Arts course of report at New York Academy of Art. His locomote has been seen inwards grouping exhibitions inwards the USA.
Denis Dalesio (b.1991) gained a Bachelor of Fine Arts grade from Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, CT, together with is currently
The portrait is of the artist’s friend Milo, whom he met though Instagram. Dalesio says: ‘We speedily bonded over ikon together with became unopen friends despite living inwards ii dissimilar countries. When nosotros met inwards person, I decided to pigment this portrait. I felt it would live interesting to scale it to the size together with crop that I had locomote familiar to seeing him inwards online.’
- Website: http://www.denisdalesio.com
- Social Media: Facebook | Instagram
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| The Poet © Tina Oršolic Dalessio |
Tina Oršolić Dalessio - Facebook - a figurative painter born together with raised inwards Zagreb, Croatia. (Wife of Mark Dalessio) First fourth dimension inwards the BP.
She holds a bachelor’s grade from University of Zagreb Law School, an LL.M. grade from the University of Michigan Law School together with a PhD grade from the University of Maastricht, Faculty of Law. She gave upward beingness a lawyer to locomote a painter together with graduated from Florence Academy of Art inwards June 2018. Her portrait is her Final Project at the Florence Academy of Art.
Her portrait is on i of the banners on the exterior of the NPG.
- Website: https://www.tinaorsolic.com
- Social Media: Blog | Instagram
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| Arcus © Brendan H Johnston |
The portrait is of Jamaal, a fellow-artist together with friend of Johnston. Jamaal agreed to sit down for this portrait which was painted alone from life. It was non until Johnston had difficulties completing the locomote that he position the reddish together with cream striped jumper onto a mannequin together with added it to destination the work.
He says of the subject:
‘his intellect, personality, together with distinct features straightaway captivated me’.On his Instagram he says
I started alongside a graphite together with white chalk drawing on toned paper.You tin come across WIP images on his Facebook Page below
Once transferred to linen, I used a burnt umber crude oil wipe-out heightened alongside Pb white.
The portrait was together with then completed earlier I thought of how to destination the painting. I composed a sweater on a mannequin together with and then finally added inwards an imagined landscape.
The ikon was completed alone from life. It was a genuinely fun ikon to compose. I thought for a long fourth dimension close the musical note of the ikon earlier completing it.
Such a compassion that this portrait has been hung so high for no proficient reason. It's completely impossible to genuinely learn unopen to it to come across the character of the painting
- Website: http://brendanhjohnston.com/
- Social Media: Facebook | Instagram
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| Dieja © Scott Lancashire |
He graduated alongside a BS grade from University of Wyoming (1974) together with alongside grade inwards Architecture course of report at Arizona State University (1979). He is a licensed architect inwards the province of Colorado. His paintings stimulate got been seen inwards grouping exhibitions inwards Colorado together with New Mexico.
His paintings are rattling focused on structure, shape together with musical note together with he has a sensitive approach to colour.
The portrait is of Dieja, a model together with friend of the creative someone who has sat regularly for Lancashire over the past times ii years. Dieja is proud of her natural hairstyle, but on this occasion, unusually, she had wrapped it inwards a tight scarf. Lancashire was surprised at how this changed her seem together with worked speedily to capture the transformation inwards a two-hour sitting.
[NOTE: I was exactly within the forepart doors of the National Portrait Gallery, waiting inwards job to stimulate got my handbag checked when I turned around. Scott was exactly behind together with straightaway said "You're Katherine". Scott wins the prize for the fastest fourth dimension EVER for me beingness identified past times an creative someone at an exhibition!]
- Website: https://www.scottlancashire.com
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| Jenne © Manu Kaur Saluja |
The portrait is of Jenne, an artist’s model who through sitting for the creative someone on several occasions, has locomote a unopen friend of Saluja. The creative someone chose to pigment her larger than life-size to convey her inner forcefulness equally she waits inwards the rut of Canal Street station on a hot summertime day.
Manu Saluja won the BP Travel Award - of which to a greater extent than later
Website: http://www.manusaluja.com/
Website: http://www.manusaluja.com/
Social media: Facebook
The BP Portrait Award 2019 exhibition volition run at
Prior to this photos of artists alongside their paintings was combined alongside a review of the exhibition.
The BP Portrait Award 2019 Exhibition together with Tour
The BP Portrait Award 2019 exhibition volition run at
- the National Portrait Gallery, London, from Th thirteen June to Dominicus twenty Oct 2019 (Admission is free)
- Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh (7 Dec 2019 to 22 March 2020) together with
- Ulster Museum, Belfast (April to June 2020).
Artists alongside their Paintings inwards Previous Years
Prior to this photos of artists alongside their paintings was combined alongside a review of the exhibition.
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