Brand New!! Lynn Painter Stainer Exhibition 2013: Review

Antony Williams wins Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2012)

Lynn Painter-Stainer Prize 2013
The Isabella Plantation yesteryear Ruth Stage NEAC
100x120, Egg Tempera £7,000

You'd intend the BBC would accept grown upwardly yesteryear now, larn educated inward ikon media as well as no longer felt the require to position her yesteryear the descriptive term of "egg artist" - but alas it hasn't happened!

Ruth studied at Cleveland, Newcasle as well as the Royal Academy Schools as well as has been a professional person creative someone for nearly twenty years. You tin run into to a greater extent than of Ruth Stage's work on the website of her gallery and in the NEAC website store.  I've been salivating over her move for years as well as am specially fond of her treatment of calorie-free as well as water.

Exhibition

The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2013 is a contest designed to encourage creative representational ikon as well as promote the science of draughtsmanship. The exhibition features the really best inward British figurative painting, showcasing the move of both established as well as immature contemporary artists from across the UK.

83 industrial plant yesteryear 71 artists were chosen from over yard entries.  The catalogue has a consummate listing as well as thumbnails of all the selected works.

Lynn Painter Stainer Prize - 2013 Exhibition
The West Wall of the West Gallery, Mall Galleries

I'm solely distressing that due to my dreadful influenza bug/coughing fits etc I missed the Preview as well as Awards Ceremony and only finally got to run into the Annual Exhibition of artwork selected for display yesterday.    The exhibition for the Lynn Painter Stainer Prize 2013 continues at the Mall Galleries in fundamental London until Sabbatum 2 March 2013, 10am to 5pm as well as is good worth seeing.

You tin too see all the artwork online on the website.  Unfortunately these images do non accept whatever dimensions as well as thus it's non possible to larn a feel of relative size.

However this is a wall of some of the smaller artworks.

Lynn Painter Stainer Prize - 2013 Exhibition
Small Paintings, East Wall of the West Gallery, Mall Galleries

Other Prizewinners

This wall includes the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prizewinners
- including Ruth Stage who won the £15,000 starting fourth dimension prize as well as gilt medal

The Young Artist Award of £2,500 was awarded to John Hainsworth who has iii (small) industrial plant selected for exhibition; Memories of Malevich III, Ode to Doig II as well as Skyfall. See how small-scale they are inward the inward a higher house photograph.

The Runners-Up, who each received a cash prize of £1,500, were every bit follows:

Robert Dukes for Allsorts - a really small-scale ikon (underneath George Rowlett's ikon inward the inward a higher house photo).  Studied at Grimsby as well as the Slade as well as at i time teaches inward London.

Jennifer McRae for Hospitalfield House: Sonya Sleeping; (see epitome below).  Studied Gray's School of Art. Jennifer McRae has won many awards for her painting inward both watercolour as well as oils.

Cherry Pickles for My Sullen Art: Self portrait every bit Dylan Thomas - Studied at Chelsea as well as the Slade as well as lives inward Wales.  She is Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Cardiff School of Art as well as Design at UWIC ( University of Wales Institute Cardiff)

Danny Markey RWA for Town at night.  Studied Falmouth as well as Camberwell as well as lives inward Wales. I accept to last honest as well as tell I honestly don't 'get' Danny's work.  By which I hateful that although I appreciate it is uncomplicated as well as honest, at that spot are other artists who accept the same attributes as well as who I honour pigment inward a means which is to a greater extent than interesting to me.

Lynn Painter Stainer Prize - 2013 Exhibition
Two Runners-Up
Right: Cheryl Pickles - My Sullen Art: Self Portrait every bit Dylan Thomas (81x97, stone oil on linen) £10,000
Bottom: Danny Marky - Town at Night (40x100, stone oil on board) £9,000

"For me, ikon as well as the choice of patch of report is impulsive. However, I do endeavour to avoid the picturesque as well as await at the unregarded withal mutual aspects of the footing roughly me. In the destination what matters is what y'all brand of it inward pigment but I seem to require a place, a landscape to larn me going as well as the footling epiphanies that trigger ideas for my paintings tin occur inward the nearly ordinary settings."Danny Markey

George Rowlett ikon the River Thames as well as Uist on The Art of the Landscape

Runner Up, Lynn Painter Stainer Prize 2013
Advancing blue, xanthous barges, Thames Barrier, early on afternoon (61x122, oil) £8,160
yesteryear George Rowlett

The 5 judges were:

• British creative someone Ken Howard, 
• The Spectator fine art critic Andrew Lambirth, 
• the 2012 Lynn Painter-Staines winner Antony Williams, 
• Tate Britain boyfriend Andrew Wilton and 
• British creative someone Nina Murdoch.

Now I sympathize - 2 of the judges pigment inward egg tempera!

My ain observations

In no item order, hither are my observations on the exhibition:

I walked circular i time as well as and then sat downward as well as had a loving cup of tea, looked at the catalogue as well as looked i time again at the paintings from a distance.  It of a abrupt struck me every bit beingness a really British exhibition inward terms of the patch of report matter, color palette as well as contemporary ikon styles evident inward the gallery.  

Lynn Painter Stainer Prize - 2013 Exhibition
Coloured greys as well as splashes of colour

• Nobody was shouting inward terms of their color palette.  There are lots of coloured greys as well as fine gradations of tones which nosotros are so used to seeing for 6 months of the yr addition splashes of color but cypher which jars or does something every bit uncouth every bit proverb "LOOK AT ME"!
• There's a huge amount of subtlety  inward show inward terms of brushwork, scumbling as well as laying on of pigment - it's a keen exhibition for those who similar looking at the ikon procedure every bit good every bit at paintings! 
• There are too a lot of slightly quirky figurative paintings. as well as really footling hyperrealism.  Those paintings which are really realistic are too strange (on a arrive at of 'slightly' to 'very') inward a dissimilar way.  There are absolutely no straightforward realistic paintings of the 'copy a photo' variety.
• For some argue I noticed a lot of landscapes this yr - I'm non certain if at that spot are to a greater extent than or they're larger or meliorate - but I came away thinking I'd seen a fair few!
• The paintings which tend to accept nearly affect are larger
• It contains move yesteryear a lot of artists who accept won major prizes inward the yesteryear addition senior members of prestigious fine art societies.  I was less witting this year, when compared to previous years, of this exhibition beingness a stepping stone for of import emerging artists every bit it has been inward the past.
• I was struck yesteryear how many really practiced woman someone artists accept move inward the exhibition.  You tin run into move yesteryear Runner Up Jennifer McRae as well as Patricia Cain below.

Lynn Painter Stainer Prize - 2013 Exhibition
Two Award-winning Female Artists - who both alive inward Scotland
(left) RUNNER UP 'Hospitalfield House: Sonya Sleeping' yesteryear Jennifer McRae RSA (122 x 92 stone oil on linen) £18,500
(right) Riverside Interior III yesteryear Patricia Cain (122 x 91, Pastel) £4,700

Not a lot of paintings accept been sold.  However the prices are rather high for the pes traffic this gallery usually gets.  Looks similar perchance the correct collectors didn't plow upwardly to the PV or they don't similar the choice this yr - which is a compassion every bit I intend it's a practiced exhibition

Links:

• MAKING Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 MARK: Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2013: Call For Entries 13 October 2012 Overview of Call for Entries for the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2013 for representational painting.
• MAKING Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 MARK: Lynn Painter Stainers Prize 2013 - Selected Artists nineteen January 2013 List of selected artists for eighth Exhibition for Lynn Painter Stainers Prize for creative representational ikon addition links to their websites.
• MAKING Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 MARK: Antony Williams wins Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize ... 29 Mar 2012 Sponsors. The Lynn Painter-Stainers Competition is sponsored yesteryear The Painter-Stainer's Company, The Lynn Foundation, Minerva, Linklaters LLP as well as Champagne Bollinger.
• Art Competitions inward the Britain (2013) - Resources for Artists

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