Review - Ukcps Twelfth Annual Opened Upwards International Exhibition 2013
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Lesley Sharman has won the elevation accolade for pure coloured pencil artwork at the UK Coloured Pencil Society's 12th Open International Exhibition 2013.
This opened on the 1st September inwards the Pavilion Gallery at Patchings inwards Nottinghamshire too continues until the sixth Oct 2013.
This post:
You tin notice the Award Winners on the UKCPS website. I've also got them listed below along with links to their websites too artwork.
I was distressing to reckon that the Prize for Still Life which memorialised Peter Woof is obviously no more. I also banking concern annotation that the accolade for to a greater extent than abstract fine art has morphed into "most modern interpretation" whatever that means!
You tin also reckon all the images of function selected for a demonstrate inwards a Picasa album. I urge y'all to thought these inwards the slideshow option equally the character seems to live slightly better.
I possess got to tell I'm somewhat surprised past times the choice made for around of the prizes. I'm also guessing I mightiness non live lonely inwards this view. To possess got an obvious example, I notice it really strange that concluding year's "best inwards show" winner didn't figure alongside the prizewinners or Highly Commended this twelvemonth despite submitting 2 splendid portraits.
The motion past times fine art societies to do a virtual exhibition of the artwork on display inwards the annual exhibition is a really positive evolution - too is to live applauded. It greatly enhances accessibility to artwork associated with an fine art medium or genre. This is the 2nd twelvemonth that UKCPS possess got held a simultaneous virtual exhibition using Picasa to host the images.
Last month, I commended the CPSA for a ready of photos of their exhibition which made it come upwardly live too enabled 1 to appreciate the diverse images inwards context. Unfortunately, 1 of the things nigh a virtual exhibition - via Picasa - is it doesn't compass y'all whatever feel at all of actual size, fifty-fifty though I banking concern annotation that each film is accompanied past times the dimensions of the artwork. It's sometimes tempting to describe a decision nigh a function which mightiness non concur truthful if y'all "saw" its existent size. It's a compassion hence that at that topographic point are no photographs available of the exhibition on the website to 'complete the picture' equally it were. Also as I commented concluding month
The images this twelvemonth seem to live smaller too less proficient character when compared to last year's Picasa slideshow. Whether this is to do with the character of digital prototype submitted past times the creative somebody or whatever processing done prior to uploading - or mayhap my improved eyesight postal service surgery(?) - is unclear. However, for me, this is a major line concern for an exhibition whose aim should live nigh demonstrating the best coloured pencil fine art inwards the UK.
People volition ever tend to justice a medium past times the evidence they reckon with their eyes. If all they tin reckon are images which seem to advise that at to the lowest degree some of the artwork is somewhat unsmooth too lacking inwards both artistic merit too technical science too so that is a pregnant line concern - or it should be.
There are 155 images inwards the exhibition - which is many to a greater extent than than it used to be. The lawsuit seems to live that the exhibition includes far besides many plant which are weak.
Compare this to 5 years agone when the amount full of entries received was 152 entries from 74 people inwards eleven dissimilar countries! Judgement was exercised past times the selectors too simply 1 tertiary of these were selected for exhibition.
For me, those selecting for an exhibition should justice function past times a standard - non choose the requisite lay out of plant for the infinite available. To me it appears that at to the lowest degree around of the artwork selected does non run into the standards of exhibitions inwards previous years - too - if that is inwards fact the instance - that is also a affair of concern.
Exhibitions of high character function attract entries from artists producing high character work. They desire to live associated with the best. In contrast, those exhibitions which include function which is non "exhibition standard" (and I'm using that term inwards a national fine art gild context) tend to deter artists producing high character function from submitting function to that fine art gild inwards subsequent years.
(You tin reckon the Award Winners from past times exhibitions on the website - too they are a proxy for overall quality:
I made a similar comments nigh a line concern nigh standards concluding year. I'm sorry these concerns possess got been reinforced this year.
I'm making this sentence based on a fair score of experience. I've seen a lay out of past times annual exhibitions past times UKCPS and, every twelvemonth for the concluding vii years I possess got seen most of the annual exhibitions of most national fine art societies too a pregnant lay out of exhibitions for prestigious fine art competitions. In fact it's only possible that I reckon to a greater extent than annual exhibitions of national fine art societies than anybody else inwards the country! Most such fine art societies are of course of teaching really much older than UKCPS. They tended to live started past times minor groups of professional person artists too had a much longer fourth dimension to educate the flat of membership too the character of artwork which tin at 1 time live seen inwards their annual exhibitions. UKCPS is withal really much an 'infant' inwards comparing to nearly all the other national societies too doesn't part the same characteristics inwards damage of origins too membership policy.
UKCPS continues to live a gild which is really much associated with leisure/amateur artists. In business office that comes from a policy of opened upwardly access to membership too a signature condition which is acquired through choice inwards successive exhibitions rather than past times a sentence past times peers which is the method adopted past times most other national fine art societies.
In addition, few members currently brand a living from their fine art and, it's really noticeable that around of those who do no longer exhibit inwards the UKCPS Annual Exhibition - which is a really non bad pity. All of this is a pregnant contrast to how members are selected for other societies too the flat of professionalism inwards damage of artwork demonstrated past times their members.
I've noticed inwards recent years that a lay out of artists producing high character function inwards coloured pencils are at 1 time choosing other fine art societies too fine art competitions equally providing the best surroundings for the overall character of fine art with which they wishing to live associated.
It was also really noticeable how petty coloured pencil artwork was chosen for the Derwent Art Prize exhibition this calendar month at the Mall Galleries. That of itself also says something nigh the standards of coloured pencil artwork inwards the U.K. when judged against other contemporary pencil artwork.
For me it's compaction fourth dimension for the UKCPS. I hollo back it at 1 time needs to rootage considering how it wants to educate the national condition of the Society inwards the medium term - with all the associated benefits this mightiness possess got for its signature members - too its annual exhibitions. For illustration does it desire to
None of this precludes its master copy aims of also having an opened upwardly access policy for hobby artists too actively encouraging the evolution of skills too noesis nigh coloured pencil fine art for amateur artists. For example, the Society of Botanical Artists - which is around 10 years older than UKCPS - has made a really pregnant contribution to the evolution of knowledgeable too skilled botanical artists through the evolution of its distance learning Diploma Course. This at 1 time attracts students from all over the world.
At the halt of the twenty-four hr catamenia the condition of coloured pencil fine art inwards the U.K. is nigh an awful lot to a greater extent than than which coloured pencils y'all tin purpose for the annual exhibition!
I'll conclude with a tilt which I'd live happy to brand nigh whatever annual exhibition past times whatever fine art society.
I'm ever happy to reckon annual exhibitions past times fine art societies which demonstrate:
Exhibition: UKCPS twelfth Open International Exhibition 2013
Where: Patchings Art Centre, Oxton Road, Calverton, Notts, NG14 6NU
When: 1st September - sixth Oct 2013
This year's judges who selected the artwork for the exhibition were:
This opened on the 1st September inwards the Pavilion Gallery at Patchings inwards Nottinghamshire too continues until the sixth Oct 2013.
This post:
- details the awardwinners too provides links to both the artwork too artist's websites
- comments on the exhibition too its implications for the hereafter of UKCPS.
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| Best inwards Show on the UKCPS website |
UKCPS twelfth Annual Open International Exhibition 2012 - Award Winners
You tin notice the Award Winners on the UKCPS website. I've also got them listed below along with links to their websites too artwork.
I was distressing to reckon that the Prize for Still Life which memorialised Peter Woof is obviously no more. I also banking concern annotation that the accolade for to a greater extent than abstract fine art has morphed into "most modern interpretation" whatever that means!
Name | Work | Prizes |
UKCPS Award: Best inwards Show (£300) | ||
Great Art Award, Runner Up to Best inwards Show | ||
UKCPS President’s Award | ||
Martin Vela | Bruynzeel-Sakura Best Pure Coloured Pencil Award | |
Pencil4Artists Award for Creative Use of Colour AND Caran d'Ache Award - Best Portrait | ||
Jean Canter UKCPS | Peter Weatherill Award for Best Landscape/Building | |
Creative Suppot Art Shop Award for Best Wildlife Animal | ||
RK Burt Award for Best Domestic Animal | ||
J Y Chang UKCPS | St Cuthberts Mill Award for Best Modern Interpretation | |
Derwent Award for Best Botanical | ||
Highly Commended | ||
| | White Rabbit (Miniature drawn onto a golden watch) | Highly Commended |
Highly Commended | ||
Hazel Tucker | Highly Commended |
You tin also reckon all the images of function selected for a demonstrate inwards a Picasa album. I urge y'all to thought these inwards the slideshow option equally the character seems to live slightly better.
I possess got to tell I'm somewhat surprised past times the choice made for around of the prizes. I'm also guessing I mightiness non live lonely inwards this view. To possess got an obvious example, I notice it really strange that concluding year's "best inwards show" winner didn't figure alongside the prizewinners or Highly Commended this twelvemonth despite submitting 2 splendid portraits.
Review of the exhibition
The motion past times fine art societies to do a virtual exhibition of the artwork on display inwards the annual exhibition is a really positive evolution - too is to live applauded. It greatly enhances accessibility to artwork associated with an fine art medium or genre. This is the 2nd twelvemonth that UKCPS possess got held a simultaneous virtual exhibition using Picasa to host the images.
Last month, I commended the CPSA for a ready of photos of their exhibition which made it come upwardly live too enabled 1 to appreciate the diverse images inwards context. Unfortunately, 1 of the things nigh a virtual exhibition - via Picasa - is it doesn't compass y'all whatever feel at all of actual size, fifty-fifty though I banking concern annotation that each film is accompanied past times the dimensions of the artwork. It's sometimes tempting to describe a decision nigh a function which mightiness non concur truthful if y'all "saw" its existent size. It's a compassion hence that at that topographic point are no photographs available of the exhibition on the website to 'complete the picture' equally it were. Also as I commented concluding month
I cannot emphasise besides much how much it agency to artists to live able to reckon their artwork on the wall of an exhibition.I'm really reluctant to brand whatever comments on private plant this twelvemonth too that's because I possess got around really pregnant concerns nigh the character of the images on Picasa.
The images this twelvemonth seem to live smaller too less proficient character when compared to last year's Picasa slideshow. Whether this is to do with the character of digital prototype submitted past times the creative somebody or whatever processing done prior to uploading - or mayhap my improved eyesight postal service surgery(?) - is unclear. However, for me, this is a major line concern for an exhibition whose aim should live nigh demonstrating the best coloured pencil fine art inwards the UK.
People volition ever tend to justice a medium past times the evidence they reckon with their eyes. If all they tin reckon are images which seem to advise that at to the lowest degree some of the artwork is somewhat unsmooth too lacking inwards both artistic merit too technical science too so that is a pregnant line concern - or it should be.
There are 155 images inwards the exhibition - which is many to a greater extent than than it used to be. The lawsuit seems to live that the exhibition includes far besides many plant which are weak.
Compare this to 5 years agone when the amount full of entries received was 152 entries from 74 people inwards eleven dissimilar countries! Judgement was exercised past times the selectors too simply 1 tertiary of these were selected for exhibition.
For me, those selecting for an exhibition should justice function past times a standard - non choose the requisite lay out of plant for the infinite available. To me it appears that at to the lowest degree around of the artwork selected does non run into the standards of exhibitions inwards previous years - too - if that is inwards fact the instance - that is also a affair of concern.
Exhibitions of high character function attract entries from artists producing high character work. They desire to live associated with the best. In contrast, those exhibitions which include function which is non "exhibition standard" (and I'm using that term inwards a national fine art gild context) tend to deter artists producing high character function from submitting function to that fine art gild inwards subsequent years.
(You tin reckon the Award Winners from past times exhibitions on the website - too they are a proxy for overall quality:
I made a similar comments nigh a line concern nigh standards concluding year. I'm sorry these concerns possess got been reinforced this year.
I'm making this sentence based on a fair score of experience. I've seen a lay out of past times annual exhibitions past times UKCPS and, every twelvemonth for the concluding vii years I possess got seen most of the annual exhibitions of most national fine art societies too a pregnant lay out of exhibitions for prestigious fine art competitions. In fact it's only possible that I reckon to a greater extent than annual exhibitions of national fine art societies than anybody else inwards the country! Most such fine art societies are of course of teaching really much older than UKCPS. They tended to live started past times minor groups of professional person artists too had a much longer fourth dimension to educate the flat of membership too the character of artwork which tin at 1 time live seen inwards their annual exhibitions. UKCPS is withal really much an 'infant' inwards comparing to nearly all the other national societies too doesn't part the same characteristics inwards damage of origins too membership policy.
UKCPS continues to live a gild which is really much associated with leisure/amateur artists. In business office that comes from a policy of opened upwardly access to membership too a signature condition which is acquired through choice inwards successive exhibitions rather than past times a sentence past times peers which is the method adopted past times most other national fine art societies.
In addition, few members currently brand a living from their fine art and, it's really noticeable that around of those who do no longer exhibit inwards the UKCPS Annual Exhibition - which is a really non bad pity. All of this is a pregnant contrast to how members are selected for other societies too the flat of professionalism inwards damage of artwork demonstrated past times their members.
I've noticed inwards recent years that a lay out of artists producing high character function inwards coloured pencils are at 1 time choosing other fine art societies too fine art competitions equally providing the best surroundings for the overall character of fine art with which they wishing to live associated.
It was also really noticeable how petty coloured pencil artwork was chosen for the Derwent Art Prize exhibition this calendar month at the Mall Galleries. That of itself also says something nigh the standards of coloured pencil artwork inwards the U.K. when judged against other contemporary pencil artwork.
For me it's compaction fourth dimension for the UKCPS. I hollo back it at 1 time needs to rootage considering how it wants to educate the national condition of the Society inwards the medium term - with all the associated benefits this mightiness possess got for its signature members - too its annual exhibitions. For illustration does it desire to
- Hold an annual exhibition which tin claim to exhibit the really best inwards coloured pencil fine art inwards the UK
- Review its criteria for the choice of jurors - with a thought to enhancing the flat of professional person input to the choice process
None of this precludes its master copy aims of also having an opened upwardly access policy for hobby artists too actively encouraging the evolution of skills too noesis nigh coloured pencil fine art for amateur artists. For example, the Society of Botanical Artists - which is around 10 years older than UKCPS - has made a really pregnant contribution to the evolution of knowledgeable too skilled botanical artists through the evolution of its distance learning Diploma Course. This at 1 time attracts students from all over the world.
At the halt of the twenty-four hr catamenia the condition of coloured pencil fine art inwards the U.K. is nigh an awful lot to a greater extent than than which coloured pencils y'all tin purpose for the annual exhibition!
I'll conclude with a tilt which I'd live happy to brand nigh whatever annual exhibition past times whatever fine art society.
I'm ever happy to reckon annual exhibitions past times fine art societies which demonstrate:
- a clear blueprint of consistently high standards of artwork selected for annual exhibitions submitted past times both fellow member artists too those submitting via the opened upwardly entry
- a rigour exercised past times the selectors which agency that all function which does non merit exhibition is excluded.
- positive momentum for the gild - too beingness opened upwardly to developments inwards fine art which stand upwardly for project design too advancement for both artwork too members alike.
Here are the details of this year's UKCPS Annual International Exhibition
Exhibition: UKCPS twelfth Open International Exhibition 2013
Where: Patchings Art Centre, Oxton Road, Calverton, Notts, NG14 6NU
When: 1st September - sixth Oct 2013
This year's judges who selected the artwork for the exhibition were:
- Liz Wood from Patchings
- John Hope-Hawkins - Chairman of the SAA
- Lesley Crawford UKCPS Silver - founder fellow member of the U.K. Coloured Pencil Society
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