Who Volition Win The Novel £15,000 'Conversations Prize'?

This twelvemonth the Annual Exhibition of the of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters has a brand new prize - the £15,000 "Conversations" Prize sponsored past times Seven Management.
A Conversation slice allows for a scene of 2 or to a greater extent than characters interacting, alongside each other and/or alongside the viewer.
This novel prize was announced on this spider web log terminal Autumn - catch A novel £15,000 prize for portrait painting (08 October 2014). I was lobbying difficult for this novel prize earlier it was announced together with I'm actually pleased to catch that at terminal nosotros convey some character portraits of to a greater extent than than ane someone inwards a painting!  I was outset to mean value the expertise was dying out!

Selected Artists

You tin hand the sack see the artwork selected for the exhibition on the competition's webpage (keep scrolling down) together with the present volition hold out hung inwards the Threadneedle Space at the Mall Galleries.

The artists selected together with shortlisted for the Conversations Prize are listed below

Shot past times Ned past times Peter Brown
137cm x 107cm £14,000
Do read the narrative which accompanies this scene of solid unit of measurement life.
Peter is ane of a few artists I know who is a prolific painter of scenes of groups of people.
Some may hold out surprised that Pete didn't submit some other of his Family Breakfast tabular array paintings
- of which I convey seen a few!
Then there's the solid unit of measurement at play inwards the artist's studio genre....... ;)

At Edmund's House past times Emma Faludy 
crude on canvas, 110 cm x 161 cm, £7,000
I mean value Emma has produced an impressive ikon from a rather dissimilar perspective than most
Ruth together with Scampy past times Joe Ongie
oil, 91cm x 91cm £1,500
I did wonder whether anybody would include an animal
- together with anybody who has always known a truthful cat know what goodness listeners they tin hand the sack be!
This simply struck me a wonderfully authentic portrait.
The annunciation every bit to who has won the prize volition hold out made at the Private View on Midweek together with I'll hold out at that topographic point together with trying to teach a photograph of the winner alongside their painting!

Exhibition

You tin hand the sack see the artwork selected for the principal exhibition on the exhibition microsite - scroll downward to catch all the images which are on half dozen pages.
The Annual Exhibition opens to Earth on Th 16th Apr together with continues until Fri 1st May. The exhibition volition occupy the Main Gallery, North Gallery & Threadneedle Space at the Mall Galleries. Admission is £3 (£2.50 concession together with gratuitous to Friends of Mall Galleries, National Art Pass holders together with nether 18s)

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