Review - Ukcps 11Th Annual Opened Upwardly International Exhibition 2012

David Sandall has won the transcend honour for pure coloured pencil artwork at the UK Coloured Pencil Society's 11th Open International Exhibition 2012.  This opened last Saturday at the Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery.  The exhibition continues until 25th Nov 2012.

UKCPS 11th Annual Open International Exhibition 2012 - Award Winners

You tin mail away unwrap the Award Winners on the UKCPS website.  I've also got them listed below along amongst links to their websites as well as artwork.

What's noticeable this twelvemonth is that many of the transcend honour winners bring non won a prize amongst the Society before.  Indeed I don't know a publish of the names which suggests they've non exhibited amongst UKCPS before.

I institute it interesting - as well as really exciting - that the transcend prize went to a coloured pencil drawing of people.  All David Sandall's operate on coloured newspaper are self-evidently drawings.  He chooses to refrain from filling all the background.  His operate inward no agency attempts to masquerade equally a painting.

I authorities annotation that the Awards bring also moved on ane time again as well as that at that topographic point is forthwith an honour for soundless life which memorialises Peter Woof who died on September 27 2011, aged 55, only earlier the last annual exhibition.  Still life was an aspect of coloured pencil fine art which Peter made his own!



NameWorkPrizes
David Sandell
Derwent Award: Best inward Show - Pure Coloured Pencil
David PritchardFox as well as CubDerwent Award: Best inward Show - Mixed Media
Deborah Holman Black Vase (Self- Portrait)
UKCPS Runner up, Best inward Show - Coloured Pencil
Chris Francis
Rondavel KrugerUKCPS Runner Up Best inward Show -
Mixed Media
Cathy Holtom
(Down a Dusty Lane)
Endymion as well as Aglaia
Third Best inward Show
Morryce J MaddamsRed LionUKCPS President’s Award
David SandellRevisingAnn James Massey Award for
Excellence inward Drawing
Janie Pirie SBA GM UKCPSLife is just......Peter Woof Award for
Best Still Life
Jean Canter UKCPSSurrey Autumn - Ranmore Common from Polesden Lacey
Peter Weatherill Award for Best Landscape/Building
Beverley Courtney UKCPS
Indoor CatFaber Castell Award for
Best Animal / Bird
Portrait of my Grandfather
in Words as well as Colour
Caran d'Ache Award
Best Abstract/Fantasy
Suzy Herbert UKCPS ASGFAFreedom
SAA Award for Best Botanical
Janie Pirie SBA GM UKCPSClare
Kate Clarke Award for
Best Human Portrait
Jackie CoxThe Pool Jackson's Award for
Creative Use of Colour
Irina Garmashova-Cawton UKCPS StrawberryHighly Commended
Chris Francis
Profile Karin
Highly Commended
Denise Howard
Better Days Behind
Highly Commended
Deborah Holman
Ink Pots
Highly Commended


Artwork I liked

Here's the artwork I liked - based on the Picasa slideshow which gives y'all an fantabulous stance of all the artwork inward the show.  I've included links to artists who bring non been mentioned above.
  • Nicolson Brooks Portrait of My Grandfather 30x25cm (mixed media) Good to meet somebody telling a story; using text inside a drawing as well as drawing a dependent area amongst emotional content
  • Chris Francis's ii plant - Profile Karin as well as Rondavel Kruger - At final to a greater extent than or less scribble makes its agency into the UKCPS exhibition. Pencils are made for scribbling as well as to a greater extent than or less of the really best artists bring used looser mark-making to create peachy drawings
  • Suzy Herbert Freedom 22x20cm I'm ever intrigued to meet what visual joke Suzy volition come upwards up amongst this year. Humour most emphatically has a house inward art.
  • Suzy Herbert Mellow Fruitfulness 19x23cm I personally would bring placed this operate past times Suzy higher inward the running for the Best Botanical Art inward the Show
  • Denise Howard Better Days Behind 40x30cm I idea this slice was stunning. 
  • Karen Musgrave Hill Dancing Chillies 34x25cm I actually similar the simplicity of dissimilar views of the same uncomplicated dependent area on a completely acre background. This creative somebody has actually looked at that chilli.
  • Kris Owen Best Mates 37x29cmIt took a piece a trivial piece to operate this ane out. I similar artists who don't spell it all out to those viewing - a conundrum draws y'all inward as well as gets y'all involved amongst the work.  I also similar the fact the foreground as well as background complemented rather than competed amongst the existent dependent area of this drawing.  Plus there's graphic symbol inward at that topographic point even though they both bring their eyes closed!
  • Janie Pirie Lilac Blossom 50x45cm Janie does stunning botanical plant - uncomplicated as!  That lilac color is the most hard color to larn right.  Janie has captured all the nuances which be inward existent life.
  • Pamela Preller For Once There Was 37x46cm Different!
  • David Pritchard all his animals are excellent!  I don't ever yell upwards seeing his operate earlier as well as wonder where he's been hiding!
  • David Sandell - ane time again all his drawings are fantabulous - simplified and unified they must pack to a greater extent than or less punch
  • Ranjini Venkatachari Epiphany 45x61cm (mixed media) - I liked the visual pun inward this one.  It's sure enough non a dependent area I've seen before.
Observations virtually the exhibition - an option perspective

I've non been to Nuneaton as well as so these observations are done from the perspective of the online exhibition of all the operate selected for the Exhibition.

I bring to state I institute the plant selected for the exhibition both pleased as well as disappointed me.  It's skillful to meet to a greater extent than or less novel as well as to a greater extent than professional person artists getting involved amongst the society.  It's skillful to meet to a greater extent than or less novel styles as well as to a greater extent than or less fantabulous quality.

At the same fourth dimension it's disappointing to unwrap that the Society soundless has to a greater extent than or less agency to larn earlier there's a greater congruence betwixt the artwork selected for this exhibition as well as the type of artwork I meet at the exhibitions of other national fine art societies.  For example, as ever at that topographic point is a huge emphasis inward the UKCPS exhibition on highly realistic artwork as well as really trivial painterly or impressionistic work.  Elsewhere I meet a much greater make of styles - fifty-fifty past times those relying on photos for references. Maybe to a greater extent than or less coloured pencils artists don't submit such operate on the reason of what they meet inward the exhibition online?

It's skillful to meet to a greater extent than or less show this twelvemonth of the beginnings of novel styles as well as approaches to making fine art amongst coloured pencils.  However I meet really trivial modify inward the dependent area matter.  At no other national club exercise I meet to a greater extent than than 30% of the artwork inward the exhibition portraying animals.  (Can I emphasise at this juncture that I similar skillful wild fauna fine art - nevertheless I also relish landscapes, botanical as well as soundless life). Elsewhere it's typical to really commons to meet landscapes accounting for a meaning proportion of an exhibition - nevertheless at UKCPS for to a greater extent than or less argue this twelvemonth landscapes brand upwards less than 10% of the plant selected.

Also piece the touchstone at the transcend terminate is going upwards I personally experience that to a greater extent than or less of the operate selected falls far brusque of the character I've seen inward previous exhibitions.

My stance for to a greater extent than or less fourth dimension has been that UKCPS volition exclusively 'come of age' when it embraces to a greater extent than styles, to a greater extent than subjects as well as to a greater extent than dissimilar approaches to making fine art amongst coloured pencils.  Recent changes are encouraging but to my hear there's soundless quite a considerable agency to go.  (Please deport inward hear I meet the annual exhibitions of virtually all the major fine art societies inward the province - as well as bring done for to a greater extent than or less years)

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot of people won't grip amongst what I've said.  Others may unwrap that it needed saying.  Now I've got my caput higher upwards the parapet, I'd only unwrap at that topographic point are lots of dissimilar ways of making fine art - equally artists from other fine art societies bring already shown us.  I'd only actually similar to meet coloured pencil artists exploring their medium more.


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