Review Together With Video Of The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Exhibition 2014

This is a video pan approximately the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Exhibition at the Mall Galleries courtesy of the novel mini iPad which is non dandy lineament because I forgot to switch on the HDV! I don't intend the video likes to motility as good much - I take away to stick to my to a greater extent than sophisticated equipment for "walking approximately exhibition" videos!

However if viewed amongst the images which you lot tin run across on the contest website you lot tin larn a much amend feel of the function selected for the exhibition.

You tin larn an fifty-fifty amend feel if you lot larn downwards to the gallery - this is the lastly hateful solar daytime of the exhibition!



This is the wall devoted to the Prizewinners as per my before weblog post Catherine Davison wins £15,000 Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2014.  Her ikon concludes the video inwards a higher house in addition to is inwards the centre below.

The Prizewinners in addition to Runners Up
(click for a larger image)

The catalogue has some advice for prospective entrants. Steve Pill, the Editor of Artists in addition to Illustrators makes the next observation which is worth quoting (and I've bullet pointed the key points)

A few practical tips to finish. Each judging panel volition live unlike simply several mutual criticisms arose during the procedure that i intend mightiness exercise goodness hereafter potential entrants to (and other fine art prizes) inwards the future.

• Firstly, consider each department of a composition before you lot laid out in addition to know what you lot desire from every corner. Unresolved areas volition apace detract from an otherwise skilfully painted picture

• Secondly, brand certain your color choices are every bit purposeful in addition to considered. vivid hues volition e'er depict the oculus in addition to thence utilisation them sparingly for maximum impact.

• And finally, avoid paying as good unopen attending to the works that accept been shortlisted for a contest inwards the past. The temptation is to submit paintings on a similar subject or dependent area to those that accept been successful before, simply as this year's exhibition demonstrates, in that place is e'er space on the walls for fresh ideas in addition to novel perspectives.

Things that I thought as I walked round:

• I exercise want the online exhibition a amend sense of size as good as the dimensions - I was disappointed yesteryear the size of some works.  Others I thought amend of having seen their size inwards existent life.  Maybe an option sentiment which factored inwards you lot were standing iii feet inwards front end of it?
• There's fewer drawings this twelvemonth compared to previous years - or am I imagining this? Maybe people don't position drawings inwards if they intend it's a prize almost paintings?
• Instead what nosotros seemed to live seeing was to a greater extent than drawing inside paintings - including the prizewinner

The fundamental department of The Craggs at Dawn (from Carlton Hill) yesteryear Catherine Davison
- showing drawing inside ikon in addition to the many layered mark-making inside her painting
winner of the First Prize inwards the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Competition 2014
fossil oil on board, £3,500

(top) Amongst the plants at Kew Gardens yesteryear Kathryn Maple, watercolour £1,200
(bottom) Marylebone I yesteryear Debbie Ayles Watercolour in addition to acrylic on newspaper £850
(last fourth dimension I saw her function it was winning prizes at the Bankside Gallery)

• Plus drawings which are really painterly such as Jeanette Barnes charcoal drawing of Grand Central Station (which volition live appearing inwards my book) in addition to Graham Flack's portrait using charcoal on canvas. 

Interior of Grand Central Station, New York yesteryear Jeanette Barnes
Charcoal, 118cm x 154cm, £3,600

• There were some really impressive watercolour paintings - yesteryear Paul Banning, Gordon McDowell, Stuart Robertson in addition to Robbie Wraith

(top) Richard's workshop yesteryear Paul Banning, watercolour £3,000
(bottom) Varanasi I yesteryear Stuart Robertson RWS, watercolour £2,950

• As usual, I saw names I'm familiar amongst from fine art competitions simply non in addition to thence many artists I'm used to seeing inwards fine art guild exhibitions. Honourable exceptions to the latter are artists similar Paul Banning, Peter Brown, Patricia Cain, David Cobley, Patrick Cullen, Peter Kelley, Melissa Scott Miller, Robbie Wraith and Neale Worley. Is this a work of furnish - or demand?
• That said NEAC did seem to accept rather to a greater extent than represented than others!
• The paintings I'd dear to hang on my wall whatever hateful solar daytime of the calendar week are yesteryear an LPS regular - Eileen Hogan.  PS I had no thought until I came to write this postal service that I had all the same in 1 lawsuit to a greater extent than spotted the most expensive ikon inwards the room.

UL328, FH172, in addition to FR59 yesteryear Eileen Hogan, fossil oil on panel £20,000

I dear this quote on her website

Light in addition to shade accept e'er been of import features of my work, specially shadows in addition to the geometry of shadow patterns. Shadows shroud in addition to reveal; they intermission upward infinite in addition to simultaneously arrive understandable, all the same elusive. Drawing in addition to re-drawing patterns, leaving echoes of what was in that place before, creates an ambiguity. It’s clear that they are there, simply difficult to determine if they allow you lot run across to a greater extent than or less.— Eileen Hogan, The Water Colour Expert Cassell, 2004

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