Lynn Painter Stainer Exhibition 2013: Review


Lynn Painter-Stainer Prize 2013
The Isabella Plantation yesteryear Ruth Stage NEAC
100x120, Egg Tempera £7,000
You'd mean value the BBC would bring grown upward yesteryear now, move educated inwards epitome media in addition to 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 in addition to the Royal Academy Schools in addition to has been a professional person creative soul for nearly xx years. You tin run across 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 operate for years in addition to am peculiarly fond of her treatment of low-cal in addition to water.

Exhibition
The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2013 is a contest designed to encourage creative representational epitome in addition to promote the science of draughtsmanship. The exhibition features the really best inwards British figurative painting, showcasing the operate of both established in addition to immature contemporary artists from across the UK.
83 plant yesteryear 71 artists were chosen from over K entries.  The catalogue has a consummate listing in addition to thumbnails of all the selected works.

Lynn Painter Stainer Prize - 2013 Exhibition
The West Wall of the West Gallery, Mall Galleries
I'm exclusively deplorable that due to my dreadful influenza bug/coughing fits etc I missed the Preview in addition to Awards Ceremony and only finally got to run across the Annual Exhibition of artwork selected for display yesterday.    The exhibition for the Lynn Painter Stainer Prize 2013 continues at the Mall Galleries in key London until Sabbatum 2 March 2013, 10am to 5pm in addition to is good worth seeing.

You tin too see all the artwork online on the website.  Unfortunately these images create non bring whatsoever dimensions in addition to thus it's non possible to learn 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 source prize in addition to gilded medal
The Young Artist Award of £2,500 was awarded to John Hainsworth who has 3 (small) plant selected for exhibition; Memories of Malevich III, Ode to Doig II in addition to Skyfall. See how pocket-size they are inwards the to 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 pocket-size epitome (underneath George Rowlett's epitome inwards the to a higher house photo).  Studied at Grimsby in addition to the Slade in addition to instantly teaches inwards 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 inwards both watercolour in addition to oils.

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

Danny Markey RWA for Town at night.  Studied Falmouth in addition to Camberwell in addition to lives inwards Wales. I bring to survive honest in addition to tell I honestly don't 'get' Danny's work.  By which I hateful that although I appreciate it is uncomplicated in addition to honest, in that location are other artists who bring the same attributes in addition to who I notice pigment inwards a agency 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, crude on linen) £10,000
Bottom: Danny Marky - Town at Night (40x100, crude on board) £9,000
"For me, epitome in addition to the pick of dependent champaign is impulsive. However, I create endeavor to avoid the picturesque in addition to await at the unregarded nonetheless mutual aspects of the basis to a greater extent than or less me. In the terminate what matters is what you lot brand of it inwards pigment but I seem to require a place, a landscape to learn me going in addition to the picayune epiphanies that trigger ideas for my paintings tin occur inwards the nearly ordinary settings."Danny Markey
George Rowlett epitome the River Thames in addition to 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 soul Ken Howard
  • The Spectator fine art critic Andrew Lambirth
  • the 2012 Lynn Painter-Staines winner Antony Williams
  • Tate Great Britain immature human Andrew Wilton and 
  • British creative soul Nina Murdoch.
Now I empathize - 2 of the judges pigment inwards egg tempera!

My ain observations

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

I walked circular in i lawsuit in addition to and then sat downward in addition to had a loving cup of tea, looked at the catalogue in addition to looked in i lawsuit to a greater extent than at the paintings from a distance.  It of a abrupt struck me every bit beingness a really British exhibition inwards terms of the dependent champaign matter, color palette in addition to contemporary epitome styles evident inwards the gallery.  

Lynn Painter Stainer Prize - 2013 Exhibition
Coloured greys in addition to splashes of colour
  • Nobody was shouting inwards terms of their color palette.  There are lots of coloured greys in addition to fine gradations of tones which nosotros are so used to seeing for 6 months of the twelvemonth addition splashes of color but zip which jars or does something every bit uncouth every bit maxim "LOOK AT ME"!
  • There's a huge amount of subtlety  inwards bear witness inwards terms of brushwork, scumbling in addition to laying on of pigment - it's a corking exhibition for those who similar looking at the epitome procedure every bit good every bit at paintings! 
  • There are too a lot of slightly quirky figurative paintings. in addition to really picayune hyperrealism.  Those paintings which are really realistic are too strange (on a arrive at of 'slightly' to 'very') inwards 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 twelvemonth - I'm non certain if in that location are to a greater extent than or they're larger or ameliorate - but I came away thinking I'd seen a fair few!
  • The paintings which tend to bring nearly comport on are larger
  • It contains operate yesteryear a lot of artists who bring won major prizes inwards 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 rock for of import emerging artists every bit it has been inwards the past.
  • I was struck yesteryear how many really skilful woman soul artists bring operate inwards the exhibition.  You tin run across operate yesteryear Runner Up Jennifer McRae in addition to Patricia Cain below.
Lynn Painter Stainer Prize - 2013 Exhibition
Two Award-winning Female Artists - who both alive inwards Scotland
(left) RUNNER UP 'Hospitalfield House: Sonya Sleeping' yesteryear Jennifer McRae RSA 
(122 x 92 crude on linen) £18,500
(right) Riverside Interior III yesteryear Patricia Cain (122 x 91, Pastel) £4,700
Not a lot of paintings bring been sold.  However the prices are rather high for the human foot traffic this gallery commonly gets.  Looks similar peradventure the correct collectors didn't plough upward to the PV or they don't similar the pick this twelvemonth - which is a compassion every bit I mean value it's a skilful exhibition


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