Selected Artists - Bp Portrait Accolade 2015

I call upwards most portrait painters desire to last able to listing "selected for the BP Portrait Award" on their CV every bit it is the most prestigious portrait exhibition inwards the world!

In this post I list the 55 artists who had their portrait paintings selected for the BP Portrait Award 2015 - Exhibition. Their paintings volition last seen yesteryear to a greater extent than than 250,000 people this summertime at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Plus images of some of the selected portraits!

Ordeal by Murat Tezcan Demirbas
Oil on Canvas - 150 x 150 cm
copyright Murat Tezcan Demirbas

Below you lot tin notice the names of the Selected Artists - delight note:

• They're listed alphabetically yesteryear country. The the world is the the world of residence rather than the the world of origin.
• There are links inwards the names to the artist's websites (where websites could last institute easily).
• Some also create got links to the portrait on their website. 

I RECOMMEND that whatever aspiring portrait artists should:

• check out the website portfolios of selected artists and
• note the measure of the websites - too authorities annotation how many artists similar a shot create got one!

Selected artists

So hither they are, some names I recognise, some I know good but there's lots of novel names! The BP Portrait Award website will, inwards due course of report create got a page for each of them every bit they've done inwards previous years. In the meantime taste finding out almost who got selected this year.

My thank you lot to all the artists who sent me images to role amongst this weblog post.

AUSTRALIA (1)

• Nick Stathopoulos (Nick Stathopoulos on Facebook) - an Archibald Prize finalist inwards 2012; showtime fourth dimension inwards the BP

BELGIUM (1)

• one of the 12 shortlisted artists for the Hennessy Portrait Prize inwards 2014. 

The Convalescent yesteryear Helen Tyrrell
petroleum on canvas, 40x50cm
copyright Helen Tyrrell

CANADA (1)

• Leslie Watts - b. 1961. Leslie spent nearly 2 decades every bit a a children’s mass illustrator too writer but similar a shot describes herself every bit a contemporary realist painter. Also selected for the exhibition inwards 2013 and 2014. Her portrait also has an interesting handling to the opposite too the NPG is inwards talks amongst Leslie almost how they tin present the opposite of the work.  Leslie is coming over from Canada for the previews.

Charlotte too Emily yesteryear Leslie Watts
egg tempera on 2 panels, each i measure 20" x 16"
copyright Leslie Watts

CZECH REPUBLIC (1)

• BP Portrait Award 2011: People's Favourite & Statistics); also won SELF (at RSPP exhibition in 2013) - encounter Jan Mikulka wins £20000 SELF Portrait Prize

Sebastian yesteryear January Mikulka
oil on canvas, 70 x 100cm
copyright Jan Mikulka

ENGLAND (21)

• Nathalie Beauvillain Scott - a BP exhibitor in 2004, 2010 too  2012. This year, the portrait selected is of Bob Geldof. See below for a closeup cropped stance of the portrait. You tin also read almost how the portrait came almost on her website. She specialises inwards highly detailed portrait paintings of everyday people inwards everyday life.  Also currently exhibiting a portrait of Yohan in the Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.

a crop of the portrait of Bob Geldof by Nathalie Beauvillain Scott

copyright Nathalie Beauvillain Scott

• Sara Berman - born inwards London inwards 1975. Gave upwards existence a fashion designer in 2012 too became a painter. She is currently completing an MFA inwards ikon at the Slade School of Art.
• Steve Caldwell - trained every bit a medical illustrator at The North East Wales Institute; produces meticulously realistic artwork inwards acrylics for portrait commissions too a arrive at of other clients. Selected for the BP Portrait inwards 2014.  This is the portrait selected for the BP Portrait Award 2015

Simon yesteryear Steve Caldwell

acrylic on panel, l x twoscore cm

copyright Steve Caldwell

• Robert Fawcett - born 1966 inwards Cambridge. Attended Cambridge College of Art, Byam Shaw School of Art too the Royal College of Art (1990 – 1992). Works every bit an Associate Professor too has taught figure drawing too ikon for 20+ years at the Royal College, St. Martins too the Prince’s Drawing School et al. Regularly exhibits amongst Jill George Gallery too at major fine art fairs inwards UK, U.S.A. too Canada. He paints inwards petroleum on copper but his portfolio of skills makes for fascinating reading 
• Nancy Fletcher -  b.1976 inwards Lincolnshire. Studied photography at Edinburgh Colge of fine art too was an independent freelance lensman for many years. Became a painter inwards 2002 afterwards studied internationally at diverse fine art schools too she prefers to operate alone from life. Exhibited inwards BP Portrait inwards 2012.  Nice website!
• Raoof Haghighi - an Iranian-British creative mortal currently living inwards Essex. He's alone self-taught. Previously exhibited inwards BP Portrait inwards 2011.  He's notched upwards an impressive rails tape inwards damage of alternative for competitions too opened upwards entry exhibitions. He also won the London oestrus of the Sky ArtsPortrait Artist of the Year 2014. 

The Reader yesteryear Raoof Haghighi

petroleum on board, l x 70cm

Copyright Raoof Haghighi

• Shortlist for £30,000 BP Portrait Award 2015 announced
• Milan Ivanic  - from quondam Czechoslovakia. He studied inwards Prague earlier coming to the UK of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland inwards 1970. Settled inwards Lancashire inwards 1986. His primary involvement is landscape painting.
• Peter Monkman wins showtime prize inwards BP Portrait Award 2009)! The next twelvemonth both of them were selected too Lindsey's ikon was a portrait of her younger brother! (see Video - BP Portrait Exhibition 2010 opens today). 2010 was also the twelvemonth that Lindsey's portrait - which I voted for - came minute inwards the Visitor's Choice abide by (see The BP Visitors Choice Winner is...).  The lovely matter almost the BP is that at that topographic point is a huge history to some of the competitors which I've recorded on this weblog - too it gives me slap-up pleasance to recount the stories!  This year's selected portrait looks similar some other stunner to me. She's also sent me the notes she provided to the NPG every bit data almost the portrait.

"Under the Clootie Tree"
oil on linen, 710mm x 560mm
Copyright Lindsey Jameson

'Sittings for the ikon took identify over a serial of sunny days over the summertime of 2014. Sketches inwards both pencil too watercolours were made to assistance inform the in conclusion piece.
The ikon was inspired yesteryear a quote from Arthur Schopenhauer, ‘in our early on youth nosotros sit down earlier the life that lies ahead of us similar children sitting earlier the drapery inwards a theatre, inwards happy too tense anticipation of whatever is going to appear. Luckily nosotros practise non know what volition actually appear. For to him who does know, children tin sometimes seem similar innocent delinquents, sentenced non to decease but to life, who create got non yet discovered what their penalty volition consist of.’
The subject, my niece, is seated inwards the shade of a clootie tree. Clootie wells too their associated wishing trees are places of pilgrimage pre-dating Christianity. People move to these sites to go out offerings inwards the hopes of overcoming ailments or granting wishes.
Each of the brightly coloured ribbons adorning the tree denotes a especial wish. However, amongst the passing of time, the clootie rags volition inevitably lose their lustre too ultimately disappear altogether. Her mourning clothes too her full general ask allude to the ultimate disappointments which await her'.

'The View inwards Winter' yesteryear David Lawton
petroleum on poplar panel, 10 x 8 inches (25 x twenty cm) 

• David Lawton  - David Lawton on Facebook. Based inwards Chester. Won 2nd prize inwards BP Portrait 2007 and exhibited inwards 2000. Specialises inwards miniature portraits.
• Shawn McGovern - Graduated from Wimbledon College of Art amongst First Class Honours inwards painting.  Completed The Drawing Year Postgraduate Programme , The Prince's Drawing School inwards 2014. 
• Nashunmenghe - b. 1972 inwards China. Based inwards the UK of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland too China. Graduated amongst an M.A. inwards petroleum ikon from the Fine Arts Department of the Normal University of Inner Mongolia inwards 2006Member of the Fine Arts Society of Inner Mongolia too a instructor at the College of Arts inwards Inner Mongolia. Nashunmenghe specialises inwards historical paintings amongst a Mongolian theme.
• Grace O'Connor - Studied at the Royal Academy Schools 1996-99. BP Portrait Exhibitor 2006. Record of alternative of other prizes.
• Tristan Pigott - Graduated amongst a score inwards ikon from Camberwell inwards 2012.  I similar his paintings.
• Ivan Rerat 
• Lee Simmonds 
• Paul Smith - Lives too plant inwards East Anglia.  Paul has i of the images existence featured on the exhibition website
• Benjamin Sullivan - born inwards Grimsby inwards 1977. Studied ikon too drawing at Edinburgh College of Art, graduating inwards 2000. Elected a fellow member of the New English linguistic communication Art Club (2001) too the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (2003), becoming the youngest mortal to last elected to those institutions. Lives too plant inwards Suffolk.
• Dani Trew 
• Antony Williams - Member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the Pastel Society too the New English linguistic communication Art Club. Won Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2012 (runner upwards inwards 2007). Won Ondaatje Prize, 1995, 2012.
• Sophie Williams 

FRANCE (2)

• Magali Cazot 
• Anne-Christine Roda - b.  in Paris inwards 1974. Lives too plant inwards the Haute Savoie. Teacher at the School of Fine Arts of Geneva since 2000. 

IRELAND (3)

"Self Portrait" yesteryear Comhghall Casey
Oil on Aluminium, 35x28 cms

• Hennessy Portrait Prize 2014 - shortlisted artists too winner) too RA Summer Exhibition 2011-2013
• Stephen Durnin - a Drogheda-born, London-based artist. Has previously shown inwards the RHA 184th Annual Exhibition (see What Lies Beneath: Untitled yesteryear Stephen Durnin)
• Gavan McCullough - an aeronautical engineer who became showtime a sculptor too thus a painter. Shortlisted for the Hennessy / National Gallery of Republic of Ireland Portrait Prize in 2014.

ISRAEL (2)

• Matan Ben Cnaan - SHORTLISTED for BP Portrait Award 2015 - see Shortlist for £30,000 BP Portrait Award 2015 announced
• Irina Karkabi  - born inwards 1960 inwards Ukraine. Graduated inwards 1982 from the Academy of Fine Arts inwards Saint Petersburg-Russia. Moved before long afterwards to Haifa inwards the northward of State of Israel amongst her hubby too newborn son. Exhibits internationally

ITALY (1)

• Marco Ventura - born inwards Milan, Italy inwards 1963. Studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Brera inwards Milan too the School of Visual Arts inwards New York. Has worked every bit freelance illustrator since 1988. Lives inwards Milan, Italy

NETHERLANDS (1)

• Raymond Huisman - b. 1967. Graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy inwards Amsterdam 

NORTHERN IRELAND (1)

• Review: BP Portrait Award Exhibition 2012 (Part 2). Ian was born inwards 1983 inwards Banbridge, Co. Down inwards Northern Ireland. He studied fine fine art at University of Ulster, won an abide by for existence the most outstanding educatee inwards their champaign too  graduated inwards 2006 amongst First Class Honours. I call upwards he's a potent contender for some other prize at this exhibition at some point.

ROMANIA (1)

• Dragos Badita - b. 1987 inwards Romania. BA inwards Painting too MA inwards Visual Art,  University of Art too Design Cluj. Participated inwards grouping exhibitions across Europe too solo exhibitions inwards Romania

SCOTLAND (1)

• Alan McGowan - his entry is  one of the 2 images chosen to promote the exhibition. Born inwards 1964 inwards Glasgow; studied at Edinburgh College of Art. Currently a practicing figurative painter too instructor based inwards Edinburgh. Has some meaning achievements inwards selections for major prizes.

TURKEY (1)

• Murat Tezcan Demirbaş (Murat Tezcan Demirbaş on Facebook) - see his ikon at the top of this weblog post - Murat is a a visual arts instructor inwards a primary schoolhouse too is apparently rattling committed to his ikon every bit his website reveals. He's previously merely exhibited inwards Turkey. I had a actually lovely electronic mail from Murat - too I create got to say you lot it's emails similar this which go along me doing the flat of coverage I practise for the BP Portrait Award! 

Dear Mrs Tyrrell,
I'm rattling happy to inform you lot almost alternative of my operate to the BP Portrait Award 2015 exhibition. I would similar to give thank you lot you for your weblog that it helped me a lot during the process. Please notice every bit attached the operate I applied with.

Best Regards

Murat Tezcan Demirbas

SPAIN (8)

• Jorge Abbad-Jaime de Aragón - BP Portrait Exhibitor 2014; studied fine arts at the Complutense University of Madrid; won the Antonio López García Award, 2013
• Salvador Antunez Del Cerro 
• Shortlist for £30,000 BP Portrait Award 2015 announced
• Maria Carbonell Foulquie - BP Portrait Exhibitor inwards 2011 and in 2014 (I was rattling impressed amongst this portrait). Studied fine arts at the San Carlos Faculty of Fine Arts, Polytechnic University of Valencia. Selected every bit a finalist inwards a serial of awards too competitions.
• Jorge Castillejo Striano - born inwards Madrid inwards 1960. Since 2004 he has taught drawing too ikon inwards his ain schoolhouse inwards Colmenar Viejo (Madrid), where he plant too lives.  His paintings are inwards collections around the world.
• Eleana Antonaki -   b. 1989 Volos, Greece, lives too plant inwards New York. MFA inwards Fine Art from Parsons. Her showtime exhibition inwards the UK. 
• Maud Bryt -  b. 1965 too grew upwards inwards New York too Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is painter too sculptor - in 2014, Maud graduated with an MFA Sculpture. This is her showtime exhibition inwards the UK.

Nana yesteryear Maud Bryt
petroleum pigment on canvas, lx inches x 46 inches (152 cm x 117 cm)

Father too Son yesteryear Kelly Carmody
Oil on Linen, 52" x 70"
Copyright Kelly Carmody

• Kelly Carmody - Studied at Massachusetts College of Art too Art Students League; paints too teaches inwards her Waltham, MA studio. In 2014 she won tertiary identify inwards the Portrait Society’s International Portrait Competition. Semi Finalist for the Outwin Boouchever 2016. First fourth dimension inwards the BP Portrait. I similar this portrait.
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• David Kassan - minute prizewinner inwards 2014; currently education workshops internationally. Everybody should acquire too accept a await at David's website - on a desktop, tablet too a smartphone.
• Jerome Lagarrigue - b. 1973 raised inwards Paris too thus moved to USA inwards 1992. Currently lives too plant inwards Brooklyn. Graduated from  Rhode Island School of Design. Taught a drawing too ikon course of report at the Parsons School of Design inwards New York from 1997 to 2005. Has had some rattling interesting commissions.
• Rebecca Orcutt - particularly interested inwards the figure too learning techniques to portray it
• Frank Oriti - b. 1983, raised inwards the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio. Graduated from Ohio University amongst an M.F.A. inwards Painting inwards 2011. Currently lives too plant inwards Cleveland, Ohio. 
• Jordan Sokol - b. Queens, NY 1979. Studied Florence Academy of Art. Currently Principal Instructor at  Florence Academy of Art.

More data almost the BP Portrait Award

BP Portrait Award 2015

• BP Portrait Award 2015 entry goes digital xviii Aug 2014 - BP Portrait Award 2015: An overview of the modify to digital entry too tips on how to acquire proficient lineament digital epitome of your painting.
• How to acquire inwards the £30000 BP Portrait Award 2015 24 November 2014
• Shortlist for £30,000 BP Portrait Award 2015 announced - this also includes an extensive listing of links to previous posts almost the BP Portra it Award from 2007-2014

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