Royal Guild Of British Artists 2015 - Annual Exhibition

It was a pleasance to walk into the 298th Exhibition of the Royal Society of British Artists yesterday  - peculiarly afterwards my real disappointing see to the RWS Contemporary Painting Exhibition on Tuesday.

I write real few negative posts nearly exhibitions - 1 was this calendar week (see above) together with some other was 3 years agone - see RBA 2012: An exhibition of Middle England? Since that shipping service both the RBA together with the exhibition seems to convey come upward on inwards positive leaps together with bounds. It's expert to encounter that the problems I alluded to inwards my 2012 shipping service are much less evident and/or convey disappeared. In especial the issues inwards relation to the calibre of artwork seem to convey disappeared.

In addition, I practise retrieve it thinking it was somewhat ironic that I was seeing amend watercolours from artists selected from the opened upward entry than I did from artists selected for the RWS competition's exhibition.

This is an exhibition worth entering if you lot desire your artwork to endure seen inwards London and/or desire to larn a fellow member of a national fine art society.

Things to banking enterprise complaint nearly this exhibition

Paintings together with sculptures inwards the Threadneedle Space
More paintings together with sculpture
Includes: (top left) The Davison Award for Oil Painting - won past times Olwyn Bowey RA RBA
(column of small-scale paintings - The Alfred Daviels 'Personal Favourite' Award - Barbara Richardson

There is LOTS of artwork inwards this exhibition - roofing every type of media except digital, photography together with video. Most merely non all is figurative/repsentational artwork.

This is likewise an fine art monastic tell which believes inwards good together with genuinely using all 3 galleries and getting a lot of artwork on the walls together with or then the exhibition. I personally beloved this!
  • 504 artworks inwards the principal role of the exhibition from members together with selected artists via the opened upward entry
Paintings together with sculpture inwards 1 of the bays inwards the West Gallery
Paintings inwards oil, acrylic, watercolour together with pastel - inwards the same bay inwards the West Gallery
This yr 50 6 NADFAS Societies supported the venture together with they submitted a staggering 368 images of master pupil operate including paintings, ceramics together with sculpture. The challenge was for RBA President James Horton together with his beau council members to alternative a number of pieces which combined the highest levels of skill, appear together with draughtsmanship.
artwork past times RBA Scholars
In general, it's a good-looking exhibition which was a pleasance to photograph. You tin likewise see:
There seem to endure LOTS to a greater extent than fine fine art prints inwards the exhibition this year - submitted past times both members together with opened upward entry artists

There seems to endure a tendency towards larger together with detailed monochromatic works - using pencil or pen together with ink inwards particular
Monochromatic entries - etchings, pencil together with pen together with ink artwork - from the open
North Gallery
This is an opened upward exhibition worth entering. However you lot practise ask to endure aware of the numbers.  I get together the opened upward entry was c.1,500 entries of which c.300 were selected for review together with nearly 100 were selected for exhibition. That's a lot to a greater extent than than larn into other exhibitions past times the other fine art societies.

I'll encounter if I tin larn concur of to a greater extent than accurate numbers.

The RBA Award Winners 2015


The 2015 prizewinners are listed below.

The De Lazlo Medal (£1000 plus medal together with a special display inwards side past times side year's exhibition) 2015 To endure decided

The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association alongside The Arts Club
£1,000 Prize
Lizet Dingemans (£750) - encounter Squid above
Daisy Cox (£250)  
The Artist Magazine Award (A characteristic inwards The Artist Magazine, impress together with digital edition) 
all 3 paintings past times Andrew Marr
I convey to tell I knew Mr Marr could depict merely I'd solely e'er seen his paintings inwards his book A Short Book About Drawing together with I convey to say I similar them!  He's got a smashing optic for composition.

The Davison Award for stone oil painting(£100)Fallen Apple Tree by Olwyn Bowey RA RBA
The Dry Red Press Award (work published equally a greeting card) Christopher’s Tomatoes by Jacqueline Taber
The Edward Wesson Award (£100)
For watercolour painting
Glass Eyes by Mollie Andrews 

Frinton Frames Award
(£200 of pic framing at Frinton Frames bespoke pic frame makers)  

Breakfast Table by John Martin RBA
The Hahnemuhle Fine Art United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland of Britain together with Northern Republic of Ireland Award
(£250 worth of materials)
Clouds together with Shadow past times Melvyn Petterson RBA NEAC
The Michael Harding Awards - Two prizes of £500 together with 10 icon sets

The Michael Harding AwardDungeness by Martin Leman
plus 
The Alfred Daniels ‘Personal Favourite’ Award for a Narrative operate - all work

and Reverie by Charles Hardaker

The Winsor & Newton Painting Award
Rose together with Hips by 
William Selby RBA ROI RWS NEAC 

The Geoffrey Vivis Memorial Award (£100) The Green Bridge of Wales, Pembrokeshire by Tim Galton
This was a real large painting
(Bottom left)
The Gordon Hulson Memorial Prize for draughtsmanship, diversity together with explorationSelf portrait facing Artist’s Block by Robert Lloyd
(top right)
The Lazlo Award to a Young Artist for Technical ExcellenceWeightless by Tatyana Kulida Shelley
The John Ingram Memorial Prize for a Young Artist - Self Portrait past times Stanley Welch (Truro College)

The Alfred Daniels ‘Personal Favourite’ Award for a Narrative operate (six prizes of £100)

Artists I liked


I liked the suite of small-scale industrial plant of fantasy fine art by David Eustace RBA.  It seemed to propose a complex interior world.
Paintings past times David Eustace (oil together with acrylic) £750 each
I'm likewise a perennial fan of Annie Williams RWS RE RBA even then lifes inwards both watercolours together with fine fine art prints (see my spider web log shipping service from a past times RBA exhibition Annie Williams demonstrates a even then life inwards watercolour)

Paintings together with prints past times Annie Williams
they sit down good alongside 1 some other inwards frames which don't compete
Every yr I am entrances past times the printmaking of Austin Cole. He's superb at using the panoramic format. This yr he had a gear upward of 6 based on a see to China. If you lot similar fine fine art prints you lot should convey a serious await at his website.

Part of Austin Cole's serial of etchings (edition of 20)
"Beijing Hutong"
There was likewise a lot of sculpture to like!

[PS I'd convey loved to write nearly this before merely commitments elsewhere prevented this. Next yr I volition endure at that topographic point at the beginning!]

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