Brand New!! Review: The Pastel Lodge - Annual Exhibition 2013

The 114th Annual Exhibition of The Pastel Society opened to the populace on Tuesday together with continues until 22 June at the Mall Galleries. There's lots of skillful pastel artwork on display,
however, if you're unable to attend, there's likewise a virtual exhibition of all the artwork online.

Catalogue Cover of The Pastel Society Annual Exhibition 2013
(artwork past times John Tookey PS)

This twelvemonth the exhibition is beingness sponsored by Caran d'Ache (Pastel Pencils together with Pastel Cubes) and Carole Hübscher, President of Caran d'Ache, attended the Private View on Mon night. The exhibition was opened past times Philip Mould who gave 1 of the best "opening an exhibition" speeches I've heard inwards a long time!

The Pastel Society - Private View at the Mall Galleries

First about impressions of the exhibition together with and hence the prizewinners. Click the links inwards artists' names to run into to a greater extent than come about their websites or at their galleries.

there's a lot of monochrome charcoal together with pencil live inwards this year's exhibition - together with for about argue an awful lot of the live is to do with trees!

View of the monochrome wall inwards the North Gallery

Enormously complex drawings of trees
alongside the pared downwards artwork of Pastel Society fellow member Angela A'Court

there are about exactly stunning groups of pastel artwork past times artists such as:

Keith Roper - his abstracted live unremarkably features landscapes of large skies together with apartment province together with townscapes of Lincolnshire, The Solent together with the Fens
Sheila Goodman - whose live gave me the urge to purchase it all!

Pastels past times Keith Roper (with about reflections!)

Pastels past times Sheila Goodman

I was a piddling surprised to run into a live inwards stone oil pastel inwards the exhibition - mainly because I don't remember seeing 1 earlier - or at to the lowest degree non 1 labelled equally such! There in 1 lawsuit again having checked the Call for Entries Page on the Mall Galleries website it is clear that acceptable media for the contest is "Pastels, stone oil pastels, charcoal, pencil, conté, sanguine, or whatsoever dry out media."

Prizewinners

H5N1 distich of things struck me almost the prizes this year.

First, I was real impressed with the agency inwards which the sponsorship of The Pastel Society has been increased. There are a release of novel awards which involve lots of pastels beingness awarded equally prizes!
Second 2 of the artists who won prizes were international entries. Astrid Volquardsen travelled from Hamburg to attend the exhibition together with Halla Shafey flew in from Egypt. It's real apparent that the international entry is non solely increasing but is successful inwards terms of choice together with winning prizes.

Winner of the Artist Magazine Award
Group of plant (in cream frames) past times Norma Stephenson

Artist Magazine Award: Group of plant past times Norma Stephenson PS

NEW Arts Club Charitable Trust Award : Self portrait by Lucas Reynes-Matter

Buzzacott Award: Brancaster, Towards Scolt Head by Rebecca Lloyd

NEW Caran d’Ache Award: Spring Classics by Roger Dellar PS

Winner of the Caran d'Ache Award
Spring Classics past times Roger Dellar PS

Conté à Paris Award: Red Monocle by Melodie Cook

Daler-Rowney Award: Autumn surf by Dave West This was a real striking live - together with I run into from his website that Dave West likes creating pastel paintings of the urban landscape at night.

NEW Pastel Society Young Artist Award (First Prize) - Indian crested porcupine past times Lara Scouller H5N1 real prissy fluid drawing - which you lot tin flame run into on the Home Page of her website.

Pastel Society - Non Member Catalogue Award Both plant (below) were featured inwards the catalogue which unremarkably solely features live past times members.

First Prize - Girl from the southward of Arab Republic of Egypt past times Halla Shafey This is a real striking work.

Second Prize - Fading of the light past times Simon Page

Winner of the Unison Award
Arrangement inwards Blue together with White
Liz Balkwill

Unison Award - Arrangement inwards bluish together with white by Liz Balkwill AFAS. This was an practise inwards realism with a nod inwards the direction of the Dutch School of soundless life. Unfortunately, due to non beingness able to run into the icon on my camera, my hand is doing a comprehensive project of spoiling the lovely black background. I guide hold to confess my jaw dropped when I saw Liz was coming away from her prize presentation with 2 huge boxes of Unison Pastels! Very much a prize worth winning!

Pastel Society Workshops 2013

The Pastel Society is, equally e'er running pastel workshops during the Exhibition - details on the website - run into below for the relevant link.

Finally - the bookshop expanse of the Mall Galleries has a Caran d'Ache display correspond the duration of the exhibition - with supplies available at reduced prizes. Those who similar pastel pencils would do good to bring a hold back given the real competitive pricing. I spotted the toll asked for coloured pencils I usage regularly together with left the edifice with an awful lot of pencils! See Luminance 6901 Coloured Pencils - comparative prices for opened upwardly stock

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