We are pleased to announce that Elizabeth McCarten is the winner of the Jackson’s Young Artist Award in the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition.

Elizabeth McCarten’s 76x56cm watercolour painting ‘The Boboli Gardens’ was selected by the judges from over 1,000 entries. The 2017 judging panel comprised Sarah Long, Director of Long and Ryle Gallery; Kathryn Maple, artist and 2016 First Prize Winner; Louis Wise, critic and writer for The Sunday Times and Andrew Wilton, Visiting Research Fellow at Tate Britain.

Royal Drawing School graduate Elizabeth McCarten says that “living in a complex and urban environment, my work often stems from a desire to find freedom, space and simplicity. Finding and connecting to places by creating emotive responses are central to my painting process.” The artist recently completed a residency at Borgo Pignano in Italy where she was able to travel to Florence and make a series of works, including her prizewinning watercolour painting.

Elizabeth McCarten, The Boboli Gardens, watercolour, 76 x 56 cm

Now in its 30th year, The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition is the largest and most prestigious showcase of contemporary watercolour painting in the UK. The competition aims to celebrate and reward excellence and originality in the medium of watercolour. Whether the work is abstract or figurative, contemporary or traditional, the competition aims to celebrate and redefine the beauty and diversity of watercolour and water-based media. It offers a First Prize of £10,000, the Jackson’s Young Artist Award of £500 worth of vouchers towards artist materials, and the St Cuthberts Mill Prize for an outstanding work on paper (worth £250).

The First Prize of £10,000, has this year been awarded to Richard Fowler, for Portishead, a vibrant painting which is part of a wider series of work exploring the effects of natural forces on man-made structures. The artist has utilised cut paper ‘masks’ with stencil brushes of various sizes to achieve the sharp edges and textures of corroding steel and decaying wood. Speaking of the work, Fowler says “…the sunlight falling on the rusting steel, contrasting with the intense blue of the sky gives the image a somewhat surreal and sinister quality whilst the stark outlines and rugged shapes are reminiscent of an ancient castle or coastal fortification.”

Richard Fowler, Portishead, acrylic on canvas board, 68x53cm

The St Cuthberts Mill prize for an outstanding work on paper, worth £250, was awarded to Annie Williams for her watercolour, Still Life with a Small Spanish Bowl. Abstraction meets representation in this dynamic work which is occupied by beautiful prussian blue, cerulean and ultramarine tones. Speaking of the subject matter, the artist said “most of my chosen objects are pots – I have a sister and friends who are potters, so have acquired quite a number over the years. I love their shapes and colours.”

Annie Williams, Still Life with a Small Spanish Bowl, watercolour, 58x67cm

The Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition

Seventy-eight works have been selected from a total of 1057 submissions. The shortlisted works will be shown in The Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition which runs from 19 – 24 September 2017 at Mall Galleries, London before touring to Trowbridge Arts (11 November – 23 December 2017) and Guildford House Gallery (13 January – 10 March 2018).

The shortlisted artists are: Alex Maczkowski, Alison Boult, Anastasia Shimshilashvili, Anne McAulay Edmond, Annie Williams, Camilla Dowse, Caroline Kent, Catherine Ducker, Chris Baker, Christopher Green, Claire Sparkes, Daphne Gradidge, David A Parfitt RI, David Brayne, David Greenwood, David Shuttleton, Debbie Ayles, Delia Cardnell, Dennis Roxby Bott, Doug Patterson, Elizabeth McCarten, Emma Haworth, Esme Dollow, Fay Brown, Frank Kiely, Gary Groucutt, Geoff Butterworth, Gertie Young, Greg Becker, Hannah Turner-Duffin, Hilary Rosen, Howard Flanagan, Ian Sidaway, Ingrid Greenfield, Irene Lafferty, Janet Kenyon, Janis Fry, John Hunt, Josh Crowe, Judith Logan, Karen Bowers, Kate Evans, Leo Davey, Lillias August, Louise de la Hey, Mark Elsmore, Mark Fielding, Martin Leman, Martin Spanyol, Max Boyla, Michael Williams, Michelle Cioccoloni, Patrick Shart, Paul Gadenne, Peter Quinn, Rachael Grimm, Rachel Ross, Rebecca Harper, Richard Fowler, Rika Newcombe, Robbie Wraith, Robert McKenzie, Robert Offord, Robin Storey, Roger Allen, Sally Lawson, Sarah Wimperis, Sophie Charalambous, Stephanie Tuckwell, Stephen Earl Rogers, Suman Kaur, Sylvia Alice Robertson, Teresa Lawler, Tom Caley, Varsha Bhatia, Victoria Dale, Vincent Spain, Ziling Wang.

You can see the shortlisted images from the last few years on The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition website.

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People’s Choice Award – 1st Place

‘Roar’ – Yael Maimon

Description: One of my Cats painting series, in which I am after capturing my subject’s spirit, not just its appearance.

Medium: Amsterdam, Liquitex and Rembrant Acrylics on Fabriano paper, 17 x 13 inches

Yael will receive:

• Golden Heavy Body Acrylic Paint Principal Set 6 x 60ml £59.95 RRP

Yael’s website

People’s Choice Award – 2nd Place

‘Mevagissey Harbour’ – Jenny Aitken

Description: Dramatic summer lighting at Mevagissey, Cornwall. I loved the play of sun on the water and vibrant colour of the buoys.

Medium: Daler Rowney and Golden Acrylics on Board, 60 x 86 cm

Jenny will receive:

• Golden Heavy Body Acrylic Paint Principal Set 6 x 60ml £59.95 RRP

Jenny’s website

People’s Choice Award – 3rd Place

‘Pheonix’ – Daniel Fairbairn

Description: A local disused shipyard glows with the blossom of the rising Sun.

Medium: Golden Acrylic & charcoal on canvas, 100cm x 50cm

Daniel will receive:

• Golden Heavy Body Acrylic Paint Principal Set 6 x 60ml £59.95 RRP

Daniel’s website.

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Current Events #36. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 36 of 2017.
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Nature Morte

7 September 2017 – 2 April 2018

Michael Craig-Martin
‘…and a cello’
2002
screenprint
129 x 96.5 cm. (50.8 x 38 in.)

Explore the transience of time and the problem of mortality as the 16th-century tradition of still life meets modern art in Guildhall Art Gallery’s new exhibition Nature Morte. Go beyond the two-dimensional as 100 works of art on the themes of flora, fauna, the domestic object, food and vanitas, invite you to pause and look anew at the human condition.

Featuring work by major international contemporary artists including Michael Craig-Martin and Gabriel Orozco, as well as art from London-based artists and the City’s own historic collection. This exhibition charges a fee to enter.

Guildhall Art Gallery
Guildhall Yard (off Gresham Street)
London
EC2V 5AE

A River Runs Through It

6-10 September 2016

Sarah Fosse, St Paul’s, acylic on aluminium, wwwsarahfosse.com

An exhibition of original art inspired by London and its ever-changing landscape. A River Runs Through It is part of the Totally Thames festival. The five artists are the duo LoveJordan, Sarah Fosse, Michael Wallner, Tom Cox, and Munleen Sibia. The exhibition will include: light installations, paper sculptures, cityscapes drawn with a biro, aluminium prints; reclaimed 1930’s windows, HDR photographs; colourful acrylic cityscapes, impressionist oil paintings, and interactive art.

Oxo Tower Wharf
Bargehouse Street
South Bank, London
SE1 9PH

LOOP 2017

12-17 September 2017

The Sun is Silent
Linocut
Anna Alcock

New work from 26 artist members of LOOP, an informal co-operative of artists with a background in print.

Bankside Gallery
48 Hopton St
London
SE1 9JH

Other Worlds // Cass MA Show 2017

8-16 September 2017

Other Worlds Cass MA Show

An exhibition featuring work by graduating students from postgraduate courses at The Cass, London Metropolitan University. Facebook event page.

The Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design
25 Old Castle Street
London
E1 7NT

Unfinished Street Magic

7 September – 1 October 2017

Anna Jung Seo’s paintings are developed from a fascination with the glimpsed, intimate moments between people which unveil the different layers of human relationships and short or repetitive memories of daily life in the streets. Anna is a Korean born artist based in London. This is her first solo show since completing Turps Painters Studio Programme 2015/17. Private view: Thursday 7 September, 18:30 – 20:00. Artist talk: Saturday 9 September, 14:00 – 15:00.

The Stone Space
6 Church Lane
Leytonstone, London
E11 1HG

The September Art Exhibition

8 – 17 September 2017

The September Art Exhibition has each selected artist showing in their own stand. Private View: 7 September.

Wadhurst Commemoration Hall
High Street
Wadhurst, East Sussex
TN5 6LE

NACHT UND TRÄUME

9 September – 14 October 2017

Nelson Diplexcito

Jake Clark, Nelson Diplexcito and Howard Rogers came together as a result of visiting each other’s studios to discuss the work. “They wanted to put on an exhibition that celebrates the sheer physical presence of painting. No irony, no detachment. They believe in the singular image and that painting lives in the emotional power to portray the sense of being alive.” Preview Friday 8 September 6-8pm. Artist Talk 7th October 3-4pm.

Turps Gallery
Unit 11a, First floor walkway, Taplow House, Thurlow Street
London
SE17 2UQ

The Republic of Brexitopia

6-16 September 2017

The Republic of Brexitopia is an imaginary country of the near future. An exhibition at the Espacio Gallery has invited an international group of artists to explore the forms that such a country might take and the forces that might shape it. Using a mix of participative, performative and provocative strategies the 27 participating artists address not just Brexitopia’s political and economic trajectory, but also the relationship between its citizens, the lure of exceptionalism, and the narrow line between optimism and delusion, utopia and dystopia.

The tone of the artworks varies from the passionate to cool observation, from the committed to wry humour. Some responses are based on personal experience of the artists – a shaken sense of belonging and the feeling of being turned into “the other”. Other responses test the boundaries of patriotism, truth and historical remembrance. The participative nature of many of the works invites the visitor to reflect on the idea of human agency. They suggest that we don’t have to resign ourselves to the inevitability of this or that future, but that we can choose to be active agents in shaping the future we desire.

Roan Allen, Roelof Bakker, Jenni Bea, Ben Bird, Lizzie Brown, Andy Caruso, Emer Costello, James Din, David Dunnico, Ahmed Farooqui, Jake Francis, Livia Garcia, Esperanza Gomez Carrera, Jacqui Grant, Tom Hackett, Christina Lovey, Liana Bortolozzo, Andy Metcalf, Bong Crisby, Samira Oulaillah, Billie Penfold, Marta Pieregonczuk, Sophia Platts-Palmer, Laurence Leng Rassat, Marc Renshaw, Louise Scillitoe-Brown, Chia-An Yang. Curated by Ahmed Farooqui for Degrees of Freedom. Private View: Thursday 7 September 6-9pm. A Top 5 pick in Whitechapel Gallery’s First Thursdays programme.

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

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Orchids
oil on canvas 70x70cm
by Jane Molineux Boon who is showing in the September Art exhibition

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Current Events #37. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 37 of 2017.
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Brighton Print Fair

15 – 24 September 2017

A festival of printmaking with works for sale, workshops and talks.

Phoenix Brighton
10 – 14 Waterloo Place
Brighton
BN2 9NB

The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2017

19 – 24 September 2017

Winner
Richard Fowler, Portishead, acrylic on canvas board, 68x53cm

The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition is one of the largest and most prestigious prizes for contemporary watercolour painting in the UK.

Mall Galleries
The Mall
London
SW1

Association of Animal Artists Autumn Exhibition 2017

9 September – 5 October 2017

AAA exhibitions are not only about wildlife, but all animal life depicted in a variety of mediums, so there is bound to be something to suit all tastes from our professional and experienced amateur artists. This year the AAA is working with the Vincent Wildlife Trust.

The Station Gallery
Station Yard
Richmond, North Yorkshire
DL10 4LD

Mary Maclean and Jo McGonigal

8-17 September 2017

Jo McGonigal

Mary Maclean

Mary Maclean’s work in photography explores the intersections of spatial thought and the flux of things that are always on the move. Jo McGonigal makes spatial paintings out of physical things in real space.

Raumx London
185 Queens Crescent, 2nd Floor
Kentish Town, London
NW5 4DS

Pigmental

8 September – 3 December 2017

Paintings by Karl Bielik. Guest curator Matt Bray. Facebook event page.

Rochester Art Gallery
95 High Street
Rochester, Kent
ME1 1LX

The Landscape

25 August – 24 September 2017

Josephine Callaghan and Sarah Cameron look at contemporary landscape and traditional notions of the term within their exploration of The Romantic.

CUBITT
Gallery and Studios, 8 Angel Mews,
London
N1 9HH

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Sunday, 175x160cms, Oil on canvas, 2015
by Karl Bielik who is showing at Rochester Art Gallery.

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Current Events #38. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 38 of 2017.
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The Residency

26 – 30 September 2017

Suzi Morris
The Naked Virus, 2017
oil on canvas, 190x120cm

Da Vinci Artist Brushes continued their support of the visual arts practice by introducing a da Vinci Artist Residency Award in 2016. The award offered five artists from five leading art institutions in the United Kingdom the opportunity to experience and respond to Nürnberg’s thriving contemporary art scene, culminating in an exhibition held in the Atelier und Galeriehaus Defet. Supported by da Vinci Artists Brushes Defet GmbH, Schmincke and curated by Dr Suzi Morris, The Residency, one year on, brings the work of Jonathan Kelly, Suzi Morris, Melody Park, David Schroeter and Sam Stopford together again at Herrick Gallery. Private View: 26 September, 6:30 – 8:30pm.

Herrick Gallery
93 Piccadilly
London
W1J 7NQ

Gallery Heinzel Summer Exhibition 2017

10 June – 30 September 2017

Lindsey Lavender
Joppa Path
Acrylic on paper
30 x 40 cm

More than 200 paintings by over sixty artists from all over Scotland.

Gallery Heinzel
24 Thistle Street
Aberdeen
AB10 1XD

Lindsey Lavender at The Skylark

1 September – 16 October 2017

Lindsey Lavender‏
‘Footbridge’
40x30cm acrylic/paper

20 paintings by Lindsey Lavender as part of Art Walk Porty and extended beyond.

The Skylark Portobello
241-243 Portobello High Street
Edinburgh
EH15 2AW

Enya Lachman – Curl: Dive

13 – 20 September 2017

Enya Lachman
Dive No 4
30x20cm oil on board

An installation of oil paintings positioned in a variety of ways throughout the gallery, at multiple eye levels across the walls and floor space.

Stour Space
7 Roach Road
Fish Island, London
E3 2PA

John Midgley

19 – 30 September 2017

John Midgley

Oil paintings of streets in small towns, architectural with suggestions of figures thronging them; signs, lorries and cars; shopfronts and part of the ‘everyday’.Opening: 21 September.

The Anteros Arts Foundation
7-15 Fye Bridge Street
Norwich
NR3 1BT

from the edge of mind

26 September – 1 October 2017

A solo exhibition of paintings and installation sculpture by Lisa Kreuziger. There is an interactive installation in which the audience is invited to participate in arranging the objects. Artist reception: 28 September, 6-9pm.

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

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‘Concourse’, acrylic on paper 40x30cm
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The annual Jerwood Drawing Prize has established a reputation for its commitment to championing excellence, and for promoting and celebrating the breadth of contemporary drawing practice within the UK. On 12th September 2017 the prestigious First Prize of £8,000 was awarded to Gary Lawrence for his monumental drawing Yellow Kalymnos and Fridge Magnets.

Gary Lawrence in front of his winning drawing
Photo © Hydar Dewachi.

The largest and longest-running annual open exhibition for drawing in the UK, the Jerwood Drawing Prize is presented in collaboration with Bath Spa University. The first prize and other prizewinners were chosen from the 69 works by 65 artists which have been selected for the 2017 exhibition by Dr David Dibosa, writer, researcher and Reader in Museology at the University of the Arts London, Helen Legg, Director of Spike Island and Michael Simpson, artist.

First Prize – Gary Lawrence

Gary Lawrence, Yellow Kalymnos with Fridge Magnets, 2017
Felt pen and poster paint on canvas, 250x249cm. Photograph: Colin Mills.

This is first time an artist has won the Jerwood Drawing Prize twice in the history of the award. Gary Lawrence’s intricate depiction of Greek Island Kalymnos, which has been produced in felt pen and poster paint, is a celebration of draughtsmanship and observational skill. The complex composition provides a snapshot of popular tourist spot Kalymnos Square, honing in on the myriad of magnets for sale at the side of the road, each accompanied by an ironic comment from the artist – ‘Athens – never been here’, ‘Cyprus ‘08 ok-ish’, ‘Zante Town – Euro Spar’. Taking almost a year to complete, the drawing is a labyrinth of personal narratives, executed with technical precision using readily available craft materials. Gary Lawrence also won in 2011 with his drawing Homage to Anonymous

Professor Anita Taylor, founding Director of the Jerwood Drawing Prize recalled the moment the drawing was unfurled for the selection panel to view: “it was immediately striking, with its intense colour and construction – it was compelling.” Artist and selector Michael Simpson said Gary Lawrence’s drawing was “a brilliant evocation of a time capsule; of time squashed in on itself as a topographical romance in retrospect.” Dr David Dibosa, also on the 2017 panel, felt the piece “radiated power”.

Second Prize – Ana Mendes

Ana Mendes
On Drawing, 2016
Video, 9m 53s [still shown].

Ana Mendes is the recipient of the £5,000 second prize for her video work On Drawing – an emotive interview with Mina Pegourie, a housemaid the artist met during a residency in France. Moroccan born Pegourie discusses how she’s used drawing to navigate her way through life, given that she cannot read or write. She says “when someone gives me their phone number, I draw something to remind me.” The film encourages viewers to consider the relationship between thinking and drawing and the utilisation of drawing as a tool for everyday life.

Two Student Awards – Jade Montserrat and Dejan Mrdja

The two Student Awards, each worth £2,000, were awarded to Jade Montserrat, for documentary photograph No Clothes Needed, and Dejan Mrdja, for his dynamic video work Chasing Synchrony 2.0.

Jade Montserrat
No Need For Clothing, 2017.
Documentary photograph, Jacquetta Clark, 38×30.2cm.
Photograph: Colin Mills.

Dejan Mrdja
Chasing Synchrony 2.0, 2017.
Charcoal, chalk, brush, ice-pick on board,
video, 4m [still shown].

Evelyn Williams Drawing Award – Barbara Walker

Barbara Walker, Exotic Detail in the Margin #2, 2017
Graphite on embossed paper, 52x61cm. Photograph: Colin Mills

Barbara Walker is the recipient of the newly-introduced Evelyn Williams Drawing Award, worth £10,000. Barbara Walker’s figurative drawings explore race identity, belonging, class and power. The new award, which is worth £10,000, will support the artist to realise a body of new drawings, culminating in a solo exhibition at Jerwood Gallery, Hastings in 2018. Eligible artists selected for the 2017 exhibition were invited to apply for the Award. The final selection was made by Elizabeth Gilmore, Director, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings; Anita Taylor, founding Director, Jerwood Drawing Prize, and Nicholas Usherwood, Art Critic and Curator and trustee of the Evelyn Williams Trust.

Exhibiting Artists

The Jerwood Drawing Prize is the largest and longest running annual open exhibition for drawing in the UK. Supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation through its programme of awards, exhibitions and events, Jerwood Visual Arts, Jerwood Drawing Prize is a unique initiative led by founding Director, Professor Anita Taylor (Executive Dean of Bath School of Art & Design at Bath Spa University). The Prize is committed to championing excellence, and to promoting and celebrating the breadth of contemporary drawing practice, this year including hand drawn, digital and three-dimensional works. In offering emerging, mid-career and established artists a national platform to exhibit their work, the exhibition has established a reputation for developing new insights into the role and value of drawing in creative practice today.

The Jerwood Drawing Prize exhibition will be on display at Jerwood Space, London from 13 September – 22 October 2017, followed by a national tour to East Gallery, Norwich University of the Arts (14 November 2017 – 6 January 2018), The Edge, University of Bath (10 February – 31 March 2018), Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury (11 April – 6 May 2018), Vane Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne (26 May – 28 July 2018) and Drawing Projects UK (17 August – 6 October 2018).

Exhibiting artists: David Ainley, Elisa Alaluusua, Pam Aldridge, Becky Allen, Kate Aspinall, Adam Bainbridge, Andy Bannister, Helen Barff, Dail Behennah, Kelly Best, Kate Black, Alice Blackstock, Abigail Booth, Becky Brewis, Lucinda Burgess, Eric Butcher, Stephen Carter, Ian Chamberlain, Lewis Chamberlain, Dean Claydon, Susannah Douglas, Dickon Drury, Richard Ducker, Jim Dunkley, James Fowkes, Nigel Frost, Christopher Fry, Lesley Hicks, Jim Hobbs, Marianne Holm Hansen, Caroline Holt-Wilson, Susie Howarth, Ronnie Hughes, Jeremy Hutchison, Julia Hutton, Jonathan Huxley, Alexander Johnson, Ben Johnson, Will Kippax, Jason Lane, Gary Lawrence, Carali McCall, Grace McMurray, Tahira Mandarino, Ana Mendes, Jasone Miranda-Bilbao, Jade Montserrat, Dejan Mrdja, David Murphy, Susan Petticrew, Helen Rawlinson, Giulia Ricci, Fiona G Roberts, Caragh Savage, Carly Seller, Tom Sewell, Laurie Steen, Rebecca Swindell, David Symonds, Sally Taylor, Ben Wade, Barbara Walker, Eleanor Wood, Sally Wood, and Andrea V Wright.

The Selectors

Dr David Dibosa trained as a curator after receiving his first degree from Girton College, University of Cambridge. He was awarded his PhD in Art History from Goldsmiths College, University of London. During the 1990s, he curated public art projects. He is currently Course Leader for MA Curating and Collections at Chelsea College of Arts. He is also a Researcher in University of the Arts London’s Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN).

Helen Legg was previously Curator at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, where she worked for 5 years on exhibitions and offsite projects as well as the development of Ikon Eastside, a second gallery based in a former factory building in Digbeth. In 2010, she was appointed Director of Spike Island, an international centre for the development of contemporary art and design, based in Bristol. She sat on the selection panel for the Paul Hamlyn Artist’s Awards in 2013 and latterly for the Turner Prize and the CAS Annual Award in 2014. She is Chair of Visual Arts South West and an advisor for the Bristol Cultural Development Partnership.

Michael Simpson studied at Bournemouth College of Art (1958-60) and Royal College of Art, London (1960-63). He now lives and works in Wiltshire, UK, making large scale paintings in ongoing series that repeat and rework a number of key elements. Rooted in a fascination with fifteenth century Venetian and early Flemish painting, and inflected by the formal restraint and reduced palette of Minimalism, Simpson has developed a distinctive, darkly comedic artistic vocabulary with which to create works that move beyond their subject matter to question the nature of painting itself. His forthcoming solo exhibition will open at Blain Southern, Berlin in September 2017.

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Current Events #39. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 39 of 2017.
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Things

28 September 2017
6-11pm – one night only

A pop-up contemporary art exhibition featuring paintings and sculpture by artists Debbie Chessell and Faye Gal Harries, and jewellery by Twisted Vintage. One night only!

Stone Hair
41 Old London Road
London
KT2 6ND

National Original Print Exhibition

21 September – 1 October 2017

Heather Meyerratken
‘Paint the Town Red’
Acrylic Screen Print on Steel Mesh

The ‘National Original Print Exhibition’, established by the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE), is an international open submission exhibition celebrating the best of contemporary printmaking.

Bankside Gallery
48 Hopton St
London
SE1 9JH

PIY PaintLounge

30 September – 3 October 2017

A salon exhibition, fundraiser and series of conversations on contemporary painting. Private View 3-9pm Saturday 30th September with opening talk at 4pm. Part of the Sluice Biennial 2017. Preview: 30 September 3-9pm. Open: 1- 3 October 12-6pm

PIY PaintLounge
12 Bohemia Place, Mare St
London
E8 1DU

Sluice Biennial 2017

30 September – 3 October 2017

Sluice is a London-based biennial contemporary art fair open to alternative galleries and art organisations run by artists and curators.
The Sluice Biennial will create a hub of artistic activities over four days and multiple venues. With a diverse range of galleries & projects, there will be a large programme of exhibitions, live performances, screenings and moderated talks all presented by galleries from as far afield as Canada, Colombia, Germany, Ireland, the USA and from around the UK.

Various venues – see website
Bohemia Place & Morning Lane
Hackney Central, London
E8

Appearance Of

26-30 September 2017

An exhibition exploring Autumn & the Equinox, organised by ArtCan. The Artists: Aileen McGee, Amy Oliver, Anna-Louise Felstead, Caroline Banks, Catherine Fenton, Catherine Sweet, Dafni Bampanioti, Edmund Palao, Geraldine Molia, Hannah Pratt, Hedy Parry-Davies, Jennifer Hodgson, Jessica Ballantyne, Kate Enters, Laura Fishman, Laura Gompertz, Lauren Mele, Lawrence Mathias, Lucy Ash, Meriliis Rinne, Mirella Bandini, Nadya Yakustidi, Nara Walker, Nick Grindrod, Olga Mikhaseva, Sal Jones, Sussi Hodel, Tamara Torres, Tomasz Jurek.

A&D Gallery
51 Chiltern Street
London
W1U 6LY

On the Road

6 October – 18 November 2017

Derek Boshier, David Bowie and Teresa Cornelys, 2016

The inaugural solo exhibition of Derek Boshier’s work at Gazelli Art House in London, showing his latest acrylic on canvas works and premiering two short films.

Gazelli Art House
39 Dover Street
London
W1S 4NN

Im/material: Painting in the Digital Age

28 September – 17 November 2017

Martin Basher, Untitled Oil and Acrylic on Canvas with Digital Under-Print 180 x 140 cm, 2017 Courtesy of the artist and Sophia Contemporary

A group show of contemporary artists investigating the nature of painting in today’s digital age. Featuring eight international artists – Martin Basher, Michael Bell-Smith, Ry David Bradley, Chris Dorland, Matthew Hansel, Anna Ostoya, Josh Reames, and Konrad Wyrebek – the eighteen works in the exhibition use painting as a way to draw attention to and reimagine digitally produced images, slowing them down to examine their meaning and impact, both in relationship to art history and our daily consumption of them.

Sophia Contemporary
11 Grosvenor Street
Mayfair, London
W1K 4QB

Deptford X Festival 2017

22 September – 1 October 2017

The 18th annual Deptford X festival has at its heart two programmes which together give the festival its unique character: Platform 2017, a set of five commissions for emerging artists in public spaces, and Fringe 2017, an expansive open programme of independent projects. Deptford X will also present a commissioned Special Project and a range of tours, talks and learning activities. Festival programmes will take place over 10 days in a wide range of public sites and spaces; many projects will engage audiences in active and unexpected ways.

Vaious locations in Deptford, London SE8 – see website for venues.

Adrian Pritchard a Retrospective: 20 Years of Painting 1997-2017

25 September – 17 November 2017

Adrian Pritchard

For over 20 years Adrian Pritchard has been producing precipitated paintings, using the forces of gravity to channel the paint over canvases and objects. He has created numerous puddle paintings, which vary from the tactile and sumptuous to the smooth and fluid born out of the use of the tensions between different painting mediums.

The Gallery, Blackpool and The Fylde College
Bennett Avenue
Blackpool
FY1 4EE

Painting Pop

14 July – 7 October 2017

Pauline Boty, Colour Her Gone, oil on canvas, 1962.
Courtesy of Wolverhampton Arts and Museums © the artist’s estate.

British Pop Art from the early 1960s, including work by Sir Peter Blake, Pauline Boty, Patrick Caulfield, Richard Hamilton, David Hockney and Allen Jones borrowed from major collections such as Tate, National Portrait Gallery and Government Art Collection. The exhibition focuses on the period around 1962, a pivotal year for Pop Art in Britain, presenting works by leading artists in British Pop Art who have made a significant contribution to the development of twentieth century and contemporary art practice.

Abbot Hall Art Gallery
Kendal, United Kingdom
Kirkland, Kendal
LA9 5AL

How we got to now

23 September – 21 October 2017

Terry Greene
‘Untitled’

A solo exhibition by Terry Greene including recent paintings and a new series of collages.

dalla Rosa Gallery
3 Leighton Place
London
NW5 2QL

Plus One Autumn Show

20 September – 4 November 2017

Nourine Hammad
‘Chaos 3, Swirl’

A group show of recent hyper-realistic paintings.

Plus One Gallery
B & C Trafalgar House
Juniper Drive, Battersea Reach, York Road
London
SW18 1GY

Artists of the Jurassic Coast

8 September – 1 October 2017

Annual exhibition of artists and makers including John Boyd, Lynne Grace, Marion Taylor, Charlotte Miller and Brian Cocks and ceramicists Dave Emery and Maggie Cooke.

Eype Centre for the Arts
St. Peter’s Church, Mount Lane
Eype, Bridport, Dorset
DT6 6AR

Coastlands

28 September – 4 October 2017

This exhibition will show the results of a six month challenge undertaken by nine artists, to interpret ‘coast and land’ in paintings, drawings & sculptures. The CO3 Studio artists, who live and work in Suffolk and North Essex, include: Wendy Bailey, Sheena Clover, Elena Fleury-Rojo, Maggie Harling, Angella Horner FRSA, Karenza Jackson, Colin McAllister, Francesca Ucci, Michele Webber.

Aldeburgh Gallery
143 High St
Aldeburgh, Suffolk
IP15 5AN

Art on Conflict

28 September – 26 October 2017

An exhibition of artists’ work in response to personal and global conflict. Graham Dean, David Freud, Pete Sherrard, Milena Michalski, David Smith, Martin Miller, Rod Craig, Carlo Chinca, Peter Ross, Sara Shamma.

Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum
Park Street
Woodstock, Oxfordshire
OX20 1SN

from the edge of mind

26 September – 1 October 2017

A solo exhibition of paintings and installation sculpture by Lisa Kreuziger. There is an interactive installation in which the audience is invited to participate in arranging the objects. Artist reception: 28 September, 6-9pm.

Espacio Gallery Gallery 1
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

Daybreak

26 September – 1 October 2017

“An Eco-Goth Opera for the 21st Century” by Harvey.
An installation of thirteen paintings and thirteen soundscapes. Each narrated soundscape illustrates each painting which unfolds to tell the fable that is Daybreak.
“Nature – the evolutionary effect that has shaped all life. Religion – real or man-made – has carved a place of power and influence which has permeated the consciousness of mankind. Humanity – the custodian of planet Earth?” Private View: Thursday 28 September 6-9pm

Espacio Gallery Gallery 2
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

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In a Box
2014, oil on canvas 200x250cm
by Sara Shamma who is showing at the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum.

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Current Events #40. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 40 of 2017.
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Sleeping Portraits

31 August – 28 October 2017

‘Couple in Bed’ 2016, oil on basswood, 35x45cm
Kate Halsall

A series of twelve new oil paintings by Kate Halsall of sleeping people.

New Art Projects
6D Sheep Lane
London
E8 4QS

Frieze Art Fair London

5 – 8 October 2017

Kris Lemsalu, Old Friends, 2017. Ceramics, inflatable clown, metal, hair, straw. Courtesy: the artist, Koppe Astner, Glasgow; Tanya Leighton, Berlin and Temnikova Kasela, Tallinn

Frieze London features more than 160 of the world’s leading galleries. View and buy art from over 1,000 of today’s leading artists, and experience the fair’s critically acclaimed Frieze Projects and Talks programmes.

Frieze Art Fair
Regent’s Park
London
NW1 4NU

Figure it Out

29 September – 22 October 2017

A group exhibition that focuses on preparatory works by five contemporary artists, made as part of the development of their paintings. Featuring drawings, watercolours, sculptural maquettes and collages, these sometimes incidental works are a bridge between the artist’s imagination and realisation of final works. Participating artists: Nick Goss, Georgia Hayes, Jacob Kerray, Kate Lyddon and Jessie Makinson. Curated by Marcus Cope & Jacqui McIntosh.

Tannery Arts
Unit 8 Rich Estate, 46 Willow Walk
London
SE1 5SF

Drawn in Colour: Degas from the Burrell

20 September 2017 – 7 May 2018

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, ‘The Red Ballet Skirts’, about 1900, The Burrell Collection © CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection

20 pastel paintings by Edgar Degas never seen outside the Burrell Collection in Scotland.

The National Gallery
Trafalgar Square
London
WC2N 5DN

Julie Umerle: Artist-in-Residence at London Marriott

3 October 2017 – 3 October 2018

‘Rose’
Acrylic on linen
Julie Umerle

Julie Umerle will be resident artist at London Marriott for a year and during that time she will exhibit a series of abstract paintings.

London Marriott West India Quay
22 Hertsmere Road, Canary Wharf
London
E14 4ED

Aya Miyamoto, Asaco Tomizawa, Tetsu Ogawa, Mayumi Tsuneoka

26 September – 2 October 2017

Kokoro Japan Project presents Aya Miyamoto, Asaco Tomizawa, Tetsu Ogawa, Mayumi Tsuneoka at

Studio 1.1 Gallery
57a Redchurch Street
Shoreditich, London
E2 7DJ

Christopher Bucklow: Said Now, For All Time

15 September 2017 – 13 January 2018

Christopher Bucklow

Chris Bucklow‏ retrospective of paintings and photographs.

Southampton City Art Gallery
Commercial Road
Southampton
SO14 7LP

John Golding: Pure Colour Sensation

20 September – 20 October 2017

‘Untitled’, c. 1974-75. Acrylic on canvas, 142x187cm
John Golding

Piano Nobile
129 Portland Road
London
W11 4LW

Colour and Form

3-8 October 2017

The London Painters and Sculptors Group exhibition. Facebook event page.

The Strand Gallery
32 John Adam Street
London
WC2N 6BP

Within

20 September – 10 November 2017

‘Drowned’
Hermann Mejía

The first-ever UK solo exhibition for Hermann Mejía.

Gallery Elena Shchukina
10 Lees Place
Mayfair, London
W1K 6LL

Moniker Art Fair

5-8 October 2017

As I Fall
Oil on Panel by Audrey Kawasaki from Thinkspace Gallery

Henry by Kevin Peterson, 18 x 26 inches, oil on panel, Image from Kevin Peterson, Thinkspace Gallery

Moniker Art Fair’s eighth year as the leading global art fair dedicated to urban art and its related subcultures.
Tickets are available from https://www.monikerartfair.com/tickets

The Old Truman Brewery
91 Brick Lane
London
E1 6QL

Fishes, Wishes in Summertime Blue

8 September – 21 October 2017

‘Little Bird Overhead’
2016
acrylic and mixed media on collaged canvas, 153x183cm
Frank Bowling

A solo show of paintings by Frank Bowling OBE RA from the last three years.

Hales Gallery
7 Bethnal Green Road
London
E1 6LA

edge of ordinary 6

3-15 October 2017

EO6 asks serious questions about artists contemporary practice and their place within art history’s foundations by dealing in the tropes of Photography, Abstract and Urban Expressionism, Surrealism, Modernist regard for material, with a Postmodern ease in mixing references. The artists work to establish a distance between themselves and their work to create the void which allows them to reflect on and then push at the boundaries, the edges of their practices. Sculpture, installation, painting, printmaking and photography.

Richard Brayshaw, Andrea Coltman, Charlie Dillon, Naya Eleftheriou, Pamela Gerrie, Joanna Gilbert, Gail Olding, Maria Vesterinen. Curated by Charlie Dillon and Gail Olding. Apart of Whitechapel Gallery’s First Thursdays programme. Private View: Thursday 5 October 6-10pm.

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

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‘Iona Miriam’s Christmas Visit To & From Brighton’, 2017
acrylic and collage on canvas
by Frank Bowling who is showing at Hales Gallery.

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Current Events #41. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 41 of 2017.
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Tender Blues

30 September to 9 December 2017

Alexis Soul-Gray, Blue Pond, oil on linen, 60x80cm 2016

A group exhibition featuring work by: Gabriele Beveridge, Maj-Gret Guapas, Poppy Jones, Rose O’Gallivan, Alexis Soul-Gray, Louise Thomas, Hannah Turner-Duffin. The exhibition is open every Saturday until 9 December 2017 10am–4pm.

Gerald Moore Gallery
Eltham College, Mottingham Lane
London
SE19 4RW

Royal Society of Marine Artists Annual Exhibition 2017

5 -14 October 2017

Lisa Takahashi
The Surfers
Linocut, 60 x 80 cm

Over 400 works, by many of the most celebrated marine artists at work today, will evoke the spirit of the sea.

Mall Galleries, Main Gallery and North Galleries
The Mall
London
SW1

Keith Mountain: Retrospective

6 October – 8 November 2017

Keith Mountain

Keith Mountain’s work is primarily inspired by the love of the landscape and colour; this exhibition is a career overview.

Creative Arts Hub CIC
1st floor, 51-53 Huddersfield Road
Mirfield
WF14 8AB

From Mile End to Mayfair

2 September 2017 – 6 January 2018

Poole Harbour, Elwin Hawthorne (1934)

The East London Group and their contemporaries. East London Group artists: Elwin Hawthorne, Walter Steggles, Harold Steggles, Cecil Osborne, John Cooper, Phyllis Bray, Grace Oscroft, Henry Silk, Albert Turpin. Artists from Southampton City Art Gallery’s Collection: Walter Sickert, Malcolm Drummond, Spencer Gore, Duncan Grant, Paul Nash, Charles Ginner, Stanley Spencer, Robert Bevan, William Nicholson.

Southampton City Art Gallery
Commercial Road
Southampton
SO14 7LP

On Reflection – Borderlands Artists’ Consortium

4 – 15 October 2017

On Reflection – Borderlands

Borderlands Artists’ Consortium are a long-established group of professional contemporary artists from the borders of Surrey, Sussex, and Hampshire. They have exhibited regularly for many years with painting, collage, sculpting, printmaking and ceramics.

Robert Phillips Gallery
Riverhouse, Manor Road
Walton-on-Thames
KT12 2PF

Black Silence: Lu Chao

4 October – 18 November 2017

Lu Chao, Black Star No.4, 2017, oil on canvas, 150x120cm

The first ever UK solo exhibition by the Chinese artist Lu Chao.

rosenfeld porcini
37 Rathbone Street
London
W1T 1NZ

John Armstrong: Dream & Reality

16 September – 18 November 2017

Feathers Conclave
By John Armstrong, 1946

‘A Stately Dance’, 1945
tempera on board
19×33 cm
John Armstrong ARA

John Armstrong was a Sussex-born painter, muralist and designer, notably a member of Paul Nash’s Unit One group, a collection of artists that embraced the twin poles of abstraction and Surrealism. This exhibition on the Cornish coast is the first major survey of his work since a 1975 show at the Royal Academy, two years after his death. Armstrong had been made an Associate member of the Royal Academy in 1966, a form of pre-selection for full Academy membership once a vacancy arose. Although Armstrong sadly did not live to become an RA, he produced a stunning body of work that took inspiration from both the English landscape and the major conflicts that took place during his lifetime, such as the two World Wars and the Spanish Civil War.

Penlee House Gallery and Museum
Morrab Road
Penzance, Cornwall
TR18 4HE

Aleah Chapin: Within Wilds

4 October – 4 November 2017

Aleah Chapin
Under the Curve Of Time, 2017 – Oil on canvas

The latest paintings by American artist Aleah Chapin explore the passage of time as seen through the body; depicting friends and relations, all of whom she has known throughout her life growing up in a unique island community on the US Pacific Northwest Coast.

Flowers Cork Street
21 Cork Street
London
W1S 3LZ

Impermanent Durations: On Painting and Time

16 October – 10 November 2017

Impermanent Durations
installation view 2016

an experimental exhibition and collaborative project by four contemporary painters: Beth Harland, Laura Lisbon, David Thomas, Ian Woo. The artists will work together in the gallery, responding to the space and reacting to each other to create an immersive installation. This is the third staging of the project following presentations in Australia and Singapore.

Peter Scott Gallery – Lancaster Arts at Lancaster University
Great Hall Complex, Lancaster University
Lancaster
LA1 4YW

Earthbound Women and Friends

11-17 October 2017

A group of artists who are influenced by and respond to landscape: sea, earth and sky: Barbara Colla, Claire Curtis, Ann O’Driscoll, Paul Fowler, Harriet Gifford, Gillian Highland, E J Laven
Ruth McDonald, Jill Pantony, Charlie Russell, Jane Sandoe.

The Horsebridge Centre, Somerset Maugham Gallery
11 Horsebridge Road
Whitstable, Kent
CT5 1AF

Brice Marden

4 October 2017 – 16 December 2017

Brice Marden installation view at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, London
Artworks © Brice Marden/ARS, NY and DACS, London 2017.
Photo by Mike Bruce.

New paintings by Brice Mardens, his first exhibition in London since the Serpentine Gallery in 2000. He has extended and refined the traditions of lyrical abstraction, from the subtle, shimmering monochromes of his earlier career to the calligraphic compositions that characterize the last three decades. Recently, Marden has turned his attention to the qualities of monochrome again, turning his gaze to the expansive possibilities of terre verte (green earth), an iron silicate/clay pigment. Terre verte came into use during the Renaissance, its greenish hue and innate transparency serving as a base to balance flesh tones; Marden first used it in connection with the Grove Group paintings of the 1970s (exhibited at Gagosian New York in 1991).

Gagosian Gallery – Grosvenor Hill
20 Grosvenor Hill
London
W1K 3QD

Most Loved Most Far

16-28 October 2017

Kate Walters
Horse Island Woman Shetland, 2017
watercolour on paper

An exhibition of new watercolours by Penzance-based artist Kate Walters and an installation of delicate sculptures by London-based artist Julia Maddison. Private View: 17 October 6-8pm.

Herrick Gallery
93 Piccadilly
London
W1J 7NQ

The Critic as Artist

10 October 2017 – 27 January 2018

Oscar Wilde, with insert Miles Aldridge ‘Like a Painting#1’, 2005, Chromogenic Print

Following on from the success of Inside at Reading Prison, Reading International present a contemporary art exhibition about and for the Irish writer and dramatist Oscar Wilde, whose ideas and legend remain startlingly contemporary.

Reading Museum, Sir John Madejski Art Gallery
Blagrave Street
Reading
RG1 1QH

Dorothea Tanning: Night Shadows

4 October – 11 November 2017

Dorothea Tanning Costume For “Night Shadow”: A Guest, 1945 Watercolour And Wash On Paper 35x25cm (42x31cm framed)

A solo exhibition of rare ballet and theatre designs by Dorothea Tanning, dating from 1945 through to 1961. Last shown in a solo exhibition with accompanying catalogue at The Drawing Center in New York (2010), this body of work has previously not been exhibited in Europe. The series of ink, gouache and watercolour works on paper shown in London feature over twenty costumes and two set designs.

Alison Jacques Gallery
16 – 18 Berners Street
London
W1T 3LN

Jeremy Gardiner, Drawn To The Coast

4 – 20 October 2017

Jeremy Gardiner
Morning Walk, The Lizard, Cornwall

A new series of works by Jeremy Gardiner, featuring the coastal landscape of Devon, Dorset and Cornwall.
“With these watercolours, I return to many of the locations featured in my last series of paintings, Pillars of Light.”

Paisnel Gallery
9 Bury Street
St James’s, London
SW1Y 6AB

Lorraine Gill

4 – 15 October 2017

Lorraine Gill’s paintings are explorations into the nature of light and colour, using three primary colours plus white in many overlays.

5th Base Gallery
23 Heneage Street
London
E1 5LJ

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Black Star No.4, 2017, oil on canvas, 150x120cm
by Lu Chao who is showing at rosenfeld porcini.

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Current Events #42. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 42 of 2017.
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Woolwich Print Fair

20-23 October 2017

With over 150 specialist artists and exhibitors, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair is the only print fair in London to deal solely in contemporary printmaking, and the largest of its kind in the UK. Celebrating every aspect of printmaking – from etching and lithography, to woodblock and screen-printing, exciting emerging artists and established practitioners such as Chris Ofili, Paula Rego and Norman Ackroyd RA.

Woolwich Print Fair
Building 10, Major Draper Street, Royal Arsenal Riverside
London
SE18 6GD

Female Abstraction

26 October – 18 November 2017

An exhibition of the work of eight female contemporary abstract painters curated by Beth Davis-Hofbauer.

Sticks Gallery
Unit 59, Osbonre Mall, Fareham Shopping Centre
Hampshire
PO16 0PQ

Iconoclasts: Art out of the Mainstream

27 September 2017 – 7 January 2018

Dale Lewis
East Street
2015
Oil, acrylic, spray paint on canvas
200 x 400 cm

Maurizio Anzeri, Matthew Chambers, Daniel Crews-Chubb, Josh Faught, Aaron Fowler, Danny Fox, Makiko Kudo, Dale Lewis, Thomas Mailaender, Kate MccGwire, Renee So, Douglas White, Alexi Williams Wynn.

Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York’s HQ
King’s Road
London
SW3 4RY

VOICE – By Gavin Maughfling

23 – 28 October 2017

Gavin Maughfling – Word. Oil on Canvas

Stilled images and mute paint record fast-flowing narratives.

Westminster Reference Library
35 St Martin’s Street
London
WC2H 7HP

Beyond the Trace

28 September – 12 November 2017

Self-Portrait: Coy
2016
Acrylic on paper
25x18cm

A solo exhibition of “psycho figuration” drawings by Nicola Tyson.

Drawing Room
Unit 8 Rich Estate, 46 Willow Walk
London
SE1 5SF

A MANY SIDED THING: A Residency of Collaborations

16 – 27 October 2017

Terrence Brett and Helen Goodwin, 2017

the first of four exhibitions in the 2017/18 Wimbledon Space programme, along the theme of Against Static: Technologies and Processes of Drawing. Tony Blackmore, Terrence Brett, Camilla Brueton, Alison Carlier, Jill Evans, Fiona Grady, Helen Goodwin, Barry Haskins, Sharon McElroy, Esperanza Perkins, Lisa Solovieva​. Drinks Reception: Thursday 19 October 5-8pm.

Wimbledon Space
Wimbledon College of Arts, Merton Hall Road
London
SW19 3QA

Peter Waldron: Odyssey

11 October 2017 – 18 November 2017

Peter Waldron

Peter Waldron’s abstract paintings are inspired by the rhythm, colour and energy of natural forms. This exhibition explores the artist’s life and career to date and brings together a selection of his paintings and sketches.

Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Bath Road, Old Town
Swindon, Wiltshire
SN1 4BA

Jurassic Coast Art Exhibition

21-27 October 2017

Colin Bentley
Sidmouth Beach
Acrylic on paper 24x33cm

The first in a series of exhibitions of the work of East Devon-based artist Colin Bentley who is working on a three-year artistic collaboration with the Jurassic Coast Trust. This first exhibition will present paintings from the Triassic section of the World Heritage Site, ranging from Orcombe Point in Exmouth to Seaton.

Kennaway House
Sidmouth
Devon
EX10 8NG

Quotidian

4 October – 17 November 2017

Michael Craig-Martin
Quotidian

An exhibition of new editions, including screen, digital, and relief prints, laser etched panels, and tape drawings by Michael Craig-Martin.

Alan Cristea Gallery
43 Pall Mall
London
SW1Y 5JG

Origins: Alice Cescatti & Laura Fishman

17 – 27 October 2017

Blush
Acrylic on canvas
Laura Fishman

Two painters interested in nature. Opening: 19 October 2017, 6-9pm.

508 Kings Road Gallery
508 Kings Road
London
SW10 0LD

Chisenhale Art Place Open Weekend

20-22 October 2017

A weekend of open studios, tours, exhibitions and workshops. Events take place across the building, so it is an opportunity to explore Chisenhale Dance Space, Chisenhale Gallery and Chisenhale Studios at one time.

Open Studios – All of the 40 artist studios will be open throughout the weekend hours, to meet the artists, see their work and learn about their working processes:
Nicholas Cheveldave, Gail Pickering, Diane Martin, Virginia Phongsathorn, Fritha Jenkins, David Blackmore, Kate Hardy, Jo Stockham, Malcolm Jones, Matt Calderwood, Nigel O’Neill, Di Livey, John Fuller, Jon George, Kevin Harrison, Amikam Toren, Sheena Macrae, Marta Bakst, Sarah Kate Wilson, Ingrid Kerma, Vincent Milne, Charlotte Mew, Edward Chell, Dan Turner, Zoë Mendelson, Paulina Michnowska, Jeremy Hutchison, Richard Layzell, Karen Russo, John Askew, Joy Girvin, Sean Dawson, Lee Maezler, Shezad Dawood, Monika Oechsler, Sam Hodge, Alicia Paz, Diana Taylor, Andy Ridley, Mark Fairnington, Kevin Dunbar.

Chisenhale Art Place
64-84 Chisenhale Rd
London
E3 5QZ

Play Thing

11 October – 2 November 2017

Play Thing

The artists Denise de Cordova and James Fisher are at once theatrical director, set designer, toy-maker, mistress of ceremonies and costume designer. They exhibit paintings and sculpture with imagery in the form of toys as objects, objects as toys, children’s book motifs and strange landscapes, suggestive of folk-lore and myth. Curated by Katrina Blannin. Artist talk: Tuesday 31 October 5:00 – 6:30pm.

Blyth Gallery
Level 5, Sherfield Building, Imperial College, South Kensington Campus, Exhibition Rd
London
SW7 2AZ

From Land to Sea

12-28 October 2017

Martin Laurancelandscape painting

Paintings by Martin Laurance. Facebook event page.

DM21
21 St Nicholas St.
Diss
IP22 4LB

Drawings at the Triforium

11-26 October 2017

Drawing by Alexandra Blum

An exhibition of selected finalists of the Discerning Eye Drawing Bursary: Alex Blum, Meghana Bisineer, Jessie Brennan, Sophie Charalambous, Beatrice Haines, Emma Knowles, Anne Lynch, Fraser Scarfe, and Andre Wallace.
The show is open Monday – Friday, usually 10am – 4pm, but with some exceptions. Note: there is no entry fee if you are just visiting the exhibition.

The Temple Church
Inner Temple
London
EC4Y 7BB

Mali Morris: Pearled and Pasted and other new paintings

19 October – 25 November 2017

Paintings by Mali Morris, part of her exploration of abstract painting that stretches back over forty years. Private view: 19 October 2017. Facebook event page.

Fold Gallery
158 New Cavendish Street
London
W1W 6YW

The Biscuit Factory Autumn Exhibition

8 September – 13 November 2017

The Biscuit Factory

A range of contemporary fine art, craft and design work from more than 200 artists. Still life painter Raquel Alvarez Sardina headlines with her new collection of paintings.

The Biscuit Factory
Stoddart St
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE2 1AN

Exhibit A

17-22 October 2017

Eight artists present a range of works: Mavis Barber, Javier L Cazenave, Kanwal Dhaliwal, Susan Keshet, Marguerite Knight, Ekaterini Koliakou, Philip Leevers, and Claire Weinstock. Private View: Thursday 19 October 6-9pm.

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

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Self-Portrait: Coy
2016, Acrylic on paper, 25x18cm
by Nicola Tyson who is showing at The Drawing Room.

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Current Events #43. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 43 of 2017.
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Fragments by Michael Worobec

26 October – 5 November 2017

‘What Becomes of the Broken Hearted’ by Michael Worobec

Michael Worobec is a visual artist working from MotherX Studios in East London and winner of the Hackney WickED Art Prize 2017.

Unit G Gallery
at
Stour Space
7 Roach Rd
London
E3 2PA

Monochrome: Painting in Black and White

30 October 2017 – 18 February 2018

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and workshop, ‘Odalisque in Grisaille’ (detail), about 1824-34 © The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Art Resource / Scala, Florence

Explore the tradition of painting in black and white from its beginnings in the Middle Ages through the Renaissance and into the 21st century. Journey through a history without colour as works by masters such as Rembrandt and van Dyck are juxtaposed with those by modern and contemporary artists including Picasso, Riley, Richter and immersive light installation artist Olafur Eliasson.

The National Gallery
Trafalgar Square
London
WC2N 5DN

Group Show: Nicola Lebon, Karen Penn-Simkins, Hannah Hughes & Andrew Shrubb

28 October – 6 November 2017

‘Tropical 1’ by Nicola Lebon

Botanical paintings by Nicola Lebon, poems with imagery by Karen Penn-Simkins, ink drawings by Andrew Shrubb, and collage exploring surface and structure by Hannah Hughes.

Pie Factory Margate Gallery
5 Broad Street
Margate
CT9 1EW

Scott McCraken – Big Crunch

25 October – 22 December 2017 (by appointment)

Scott McCracken has been awarded the Darbyshire Prize for Emerging Art 2017. Viewings by appointment Monday to Friday. Private view: Wednesday 25th October 6-8:30pm. Facebook event page.

Darbyshire
19-23 White Lion Street
London
N1 9PD

Dual Purpose

4 November – 2 December 2017

Tim Allen Painting

An exhibition of large scale works by Tim Allen shown in London for the first time in over a decade. The two paintings are part of a major body of work that has been in development since 2004. The scale of the works shown in this exhibition space generates an intimate and immersive experience. Preview: Friday 3rd November 6-8pm. Tim Allen will be in conversation with Juan Bolivar on Saturday 18th November 3-4pm.

Turps Gallery
Unit 11a, First floor walkway, Taplow House, Thurlow Street
London
SE17 2UQ

The Crying Game

31 October – 2 November 2017

Marcelle Hanselaar
The Crying Game 2, 2017
etching/aquatint
25x30cm
edition of 30

An exhibition of Marcelle Hanselaar’s complete portfolio of etchings: The Crying Game and to celebrate the presentation of a fully illustrated book about this powerful set of prints.
The book will be launched at the gallery and signed copies will be available to purchase during the exhibition and afterwards from Julian Page. The Crying Game prints are in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Marcelle Hanselaar is a London-based Dutch painter and printmaker. Her latest set of etchings inspired by Otto Dix’s Der Krieg War prints series are a passionate response to present day violence. “When I see and hear the ongoing reports of wars, of the harsh things we do to each other, I feel I have to do something in order not to be complicit. Being an artist, all I can do is draw and in doing so to draw attention to what matters.” Private View and Book Launch: Monday 30 October 7-9pm.

Herrick Gallery
93 Piccadilly
London
W1J 7NQ

Amber and Ebony

16 October – 3 November 2017

Small study IV for Bacchus and Ariadne, oil on linen
Elise Ansel

Elise Ansel solo exhibition of paintings sowing her continued practice of examining and re-interpreting Old Master paintings.

Cadogan Contemporary
87 Old Brompton Rd
Kensington, London
SW7 3LD

Roy Lichtenstein in Focus

22 September 2017 – 10 June 2018

Roy Lichtenstein, In The Car 1963 © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein/DACS 2017. Photo: Antonia Reeve

Explore over 20 works charting Roy Lichtenstein’s (1923–1997) early interest in landscape to his iconic pop paintings influenced by comic strips and advertising imagery. The free display also presents Lichtenstein’s three-screen installation, his only work with film, which was made after spending two weeks at Universal Studios in 1969.

Tate Liverpool
Albert Dock, Liverpool Waterfront
Liverpool
L3 4BB

The Beauty of Japan and Soul of Creation

24-29 October 2017

Sixteen Japanese artists and artisans will exhibit various works including traditional arts and crafts, modern art works, as well as subculture works which characterise modern-day Japan. Private View: Thursday 26 October 6:30 – 8:30pm with Japanese traditional sweets and free drinks.

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

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Small study IV for Bacchus and Ariadne, oil on linen , 12.5″ x 14″
by Elise Ansel who is showing at Cadogan Contemporary.

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Current Events #44. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 44 of 2017.
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The London Group Open 2017

Part 1: 8 November – 1 December 2017

Jo Evans’ practice explores time, space, money and mindset. She will be exhibiting at Part 1: The London Group Open 2017

The 83rd London Group Open shows work from artists selected from open call alongside the work of members from the artists’ collective, The London Group. The exhibition will feature works in a wide range of mediums, including painting, sculpture, drawing, print, photography, digital, mixed media, installation, video and an audio artwork. The first part of the exhibition runs from 8th to 17th November with half of the selected artists showing. Monday – Friday 2pm – 6pm

Artists exhibiting in Part 1 include: Jonathan Alibone, Belinda Bailey, Rosalind Barker, Maria Bouquet, Day Bowman, Anita Bryan, Stephen Calcutt, Adrienne Cameron, Stephen Carley, Tom Cartmill, Michael Coombs, Richard Dickson, Jo Evans, Jane Eyton, Garry Flinders, Chloe Fremantle, Nicholas Gentilli, Lyndsey Gilmour, David Gould, Ashley Greaves, Gudrun Sigridur Haraldsdottir, Joshua Hilton, Beverley Isaacs, Aubrey Laret, Jockel Liess, Rebekah Miller, Blake O’Donnell, Sarah Pager, Sumi Perera, Angela Smith, Louise Whittles, Emma Witter, Eleanor Wood, LJ Wright; Shona Davies, Dave Monaghan and Jon Klein.

The London Group Open
at
The Cello Factory
33-34 Cornwall Road
London SE1 8TJ

Landing Gallery: Celebrating the Legacy of Barry Till

3 October – 4 November 2017

Barry Till by Maggi Hambling, 1986

This exhibition launches the renovation of the gallery space and its renaming as The Barry Till Gallery. The renaming celebrates Barry Till (1923-2013), who was Principal of Morley College London from 1965 to 1986 and established Morley as a centre for creative arts and adult education.

The exhibition is made up of artworks that were given to Till by members of staff in Morley’s visual arts departments, including work from Denzil Forrester, Adrian Bartlett and Jennifer Hollingdale.

Barry Till Gallery, Morley College London,
61 Westminster Bridge Road
London
SE1 7HT

NOW: Susan Philipsz, Michael Armitage, Yto Barrada, Kate Davis, Hiwa K, Sarah Rose

28 October 2017 – 18 February 2018

Nasema Nawe, 2016 by Michael Armitage
© Michael Armitage

NOW is a collection of contemporary exhibitions on the ground floor of the Scottish National Gallery, Modern one. Each exhibition celebrates the role of artists in society and introduces new paintings, photographs, sculptures never before shown in Scotland. The second exhibition of the series is themed around storytelling and features Turner Prize winning Susan Philipsz’s sound installations. The international artists exhibiting include: Michael Ermitage, Yto Barrada, Kate Davis, Hiwa K and Sarah Rose.

The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
The Mound
Edinburgh
EH2 2EL

Morley Gallery: Print City

31 October – 11 November 2017
Private view: Wednesday 1st November between 6pm-8pm

Rebuilding the Unbuilt by Steve Edwards

Print City features a range of works on the theme of the urban environment by members of the Printmakers Council.

The Printmakers Council was set up in 1965, to promote new developments within printmaking and promote printmaking place in education and the visual arts. Founding members include artists Julian Trevelyan, Michael Rothenstein, Anthony Gross, Agatha Sorel and Stanley Jones.

Morley College
61 Westminster Bridge Road
London
SE1 7HT

Art+Revolution

6 – 12 November 2017

This exhibition, which is in celebration of the centenary of 1917 Russian Revolution, displays filmmaker Barry Bliss’ collection of artefacts from the Russian Revolution, including artworks, pamphlets. Alongside these artefacts is shown 8 contemporary artists’ work exploring the theme of revolution in various mediums including textiles, printmaking, photography, graphic design and ceramics. Contemporary artists being shown include: Martin Adams, Debbie Bliss, Raewyn Harrison, Lorraine Huddle, Roger Huddle, Tim Sanders, Red Saunders and Paul Tucker.

Art+Revolution
at
Winns Gallery
Lloyd Park, Forest Road
London
E17 4PP

Infinity: Gemma Cossey & Jane Ponsford

8 November – 2 December 2017

Halves VII (Blackwhite). 2017 by Gemma Cossey, water-based pigment paint and varnish on panel. 30cm x 30cm x 2cm

A joint exhibition of Gemma Cossey’s geometric drawings and paintings and Jane Ponsford’s paper sculptures. Curated by Jane Boyer, this exhibition explores the theme of infinity as something internal and humble. Private view: Tuesday 7th November 6.30pm – 8.30pm

Arthouse1
45 Grange Road
London
SE1 3BH

Cambridge Art Fair

10 – 12 November 2017

Art of Learning by Jo Tunmer, A3 relief polymer gravure etching. 14/30 V/E.

Cambridge Art Fair is a selection of Modern and Contemporary Fine Art. Exhibitors include: The Art Agency, Art Exposure Gallery, The Art Hound Gallery, Byard Art, The Cambridge Art Book, Carina Haslam Art, Capital Culture, Cheffins Fine Art, Clifton Fine Art, Colourbox, Darryl Nantais Gallery, Eleven & A Half, Farmer Fine Art, Granta Fine Art, Hanoi Art House, Jim Woodman Fine Art, Julian Hartnoll, Lime Tree Gallery, London Row International, Mayne Gallery, N O P, New British Artists, Oriel Fine Art, Paonessa Gallery, Primavera Gallery, The Raverat Archive, Robert Fogell Gallery, Signet Contemporary Art, Stephen Walton Fine Art, Strange Tracey, Watermark Gallery, White Court Art and Works On Paper- Berlin. VIP Private view: Thursday 9th November from 5.30pm – 8.30pm (tickets only).

Cambridge Art Fair
Guildhall
Market Hill
Cambridge
CB2 3QJ

Planet on Fire, Tamsin Relly and Henry Hussey

27 September – 15 December 2017

Tamsin Relly, All the Rivers 2016, Water mixable oil on linen, 160 x 120cm

An exhibition of Tamsin Relly’s tonal and expressive paintings and Henry Hussey’s tapestry work alongside original prints by both. The duo-exhibition was curated by Jo Baring of the Ingram Collection and is hosted by TM Lighting as part of a programme of exhibitions to support new artists. Open weekdays by appointment, during office hours,

TM Lighting
Unit 10,
21 Wren Street
London
WC1X 0HF

David Micheaud: Terra Nullius

2 – 26 November 2017
Private view: Thursday 2 November 6pm – 9 pm

Venus, 2017 by David Micheaud

The second solo show at Studio 1.1 of David Micheaud‘s paintings exploring both real and imagined space. Thursday – Sunday 12pm to 6 pm – or by appointment.

Studio 1.1
57a Redchurch Street
Shoreditch, London
E2 7DJ

Espacio Original Print Fair 2017

31 October – 12 November 2017
Private view: Thursday 2 November 6pm – 9pm

An exhibition of framed and unframed original, hand pulled prints by 18 experienced printmakers who have exhibited widely in London and internationally. The exhibition, curated by Zelda Eady, runs across two floors and includes an education room where a printmaker will always be present to explain the tools of the trade collected there and answer any questions. An afternoon of print demonstrations will take place in the gallery from 1pm to 5pm on Sunday 5th November. This is a free event and everyone will be welcome.

Exhibiting printmakers include: Tracey Ashman, Tania Beaumont, Liz Bestic, Diane Comte Frost, Zelda Eady, Ann-Helen English, Robert Fitzmaurice, Ramona Galardi, Sally Grumbridge, Sue Jones, Ange Mukeza, Annette Rolston, Ann Simberg, Jane Stothert, Jo Tunmer, Tina Viljoen, Roy Willingham, Liz Whiteman Smith

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

Tuesday – Sunday 1pm – 7pm

Our Exhibition Calendar

Please let us know about your exhibition. We may be able to include it in future Current Events.

See more exhibitions on our Exhibitions Calendar.

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The image at the top is:

Art of Learning A3 relief polymer gravure etching. 14/30 V/E,
by Jo Tunmer, who is showing at both the Espacio Original Print Fair and the Cambridge Art Fair.

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Current Events #45. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 45 of 2017.
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Landscape: Paintings by Emma Turpin and Duncan Pickstock

2 – 26 November 2017

Autumn Light by Emma Turpin, 27×24 cm, mixed media on paper, 2016.

Turpin and Pickstock use the natural world as a starting point to inform their paintings, without solely producing illustrative or representational work. Both their work references the light, colour and forms that are present in landscapes.

Turpin uses familiar forms to attempt to find a harmonious resolution which balances colour and form. Pickstock’s paintings seem to be landscapes while remaining abstract; bands of colour remind the viewer of the time of day or the distinction between the horizon and the skyline.

Duncan Pickstock and Emma Turpin
at
The Stone Space
6 Church Lane
Leytonstone
London E11 1HG

Every Me

9 – 12 November
Private View: Thursday 9th November between 6pm-9pm

Highest Heights by Lena Heubusch. October 2017

Every Me/ BenTanıdık Bir Yabancı was an art residency in Adana, Turkey that ran between 21st September to 8th October. Curated by Mustafa Boga, it was a collaboration between local life and visiting artists and examined how experiences that come from culture, education, lifestyles and religion can be explored and interpreted through visual and expressive language.

The residency focused on ‘Self Portrait’ and how participants adapted to a new culture and whether this calls into question one’s sense of identity. It poses understanding new culture as a journey based in the personal and explores assumptions and perceptions that are thrown into question by observing others.

This exhibition is a response to the artists’ experience in Turkey.

Featuring artists:

Alice Kemp
Eva Wilkinson
Lena Heubusch
Manji Kikuma
Matt Siwerski
Mustafa Boga
Subash Thebe
Stephanie Wong

Every Me
at
Lower ground floor
27b Belfast road
N166UN (right next to Stoke Newington station)

Craig Jefferson: A Step Back

2 November – 25 November 2017

Masts 1 by Craig Jefferson

A month long, solo show of Craig Jefferson’s paintings at the Georgian Gallery in the Ards Art Centre.

This exhibition explores how Jefferson’s work, which focuses on the profound qualities of his surroundings, has developed since his move to Northern Ireland from Edinburgh. It compares his new and old works: drawings and paintings that explore still life, figure and landscape subjects as well as ambiguous forms which straddle both realism and abstraction.

Craig Jefferson
at
Ards Arts Centre
Town Hall
Conway Square
Newtownards
Northern Ireland, BT23 4NP

Andrew Bracey: ReconFigure Paintings

10 – 25 November 2017

Andrew Bracey’s exhibition consists of reproductions of oil paintings, each varying in style, period and type of figuration that have then been worked over with geometric/ crystalline paintwork. The aim is to disrupt the viewer’s eye and change their view of the original piece that has been reproduced while still creating a work that is unique in itself. There will be a combination of small scale paintings by Bracey and large digital prints from the series at the size of the original painting Bracey has based his works on.

Andrew Bracey
at
The Old Courts Gallery
Gerrard Winstanley House,
Crawford Street,
Wigan,
WN1 1NA

Mali Morris: Pearled and Pasted and Other New Paintings

19 October – 25 November

Third Ghost by Mali Morris

An exhibition of Mali Morris’s abstract paintings over the last 40 years. Works range from sparse to complex with the paintings consisting of a patchwork of overlaid opacities and translucencies. These play with space and colour to create luminous work that deconstructs formal relationships and exposes subtle contradictions and complexities.

Mali Morris
at
Fold Gallery
158 New Cavendish St
London W1W 6YW

The EY Exhibition Impressionists in London

2 November – 7 May

Camille Pissarro, Hampton Court Green 1891, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection.

This exhibition presents works by Monet, Tissot, Pissarro, Dalou, Sisley, Derain and Legros.

In the 1870s, the Franco-Prussian war and insurrection in Paris drove artists to flee France and seek safety in England. Their experience of London, friendships formed there and their involvement with the British art scene, not only developed the scene itself but dramatically changed their own work.

It is also an opportunity to see the largest selection of Monet’s Houses of Parliament paintings to have been shown in Europe for the last 40 years.

Tate Britain
Millbank
London SW1P 4RG

Mychael Barratt: Maps, Myths And Muses

4 – 18 November

Mychael Barratt, ‘New York Map of Days’, Etching, 84 cm x 116 cm

Mychael Barratt, current President of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers, in this exhibition shows prints and paintings that form a narrative and in fact an adventure through time. His work incorporates themes that show his wide range of interest, including history, art history, theatre, maps and literature, and seeks to create a humorous dialogue between the works. This expands and juxtaposes each piece’s subject matter.

Mychael Barratt
at
Sarah Wiseman Gallery
40/41 South Parade
Summertown
Oxford OX2 7JL

Uncommon Ground

9 – 12 November

A group exhibition of 7 graduates from Plymouth College of Art, showing work from their final year degree show.

The graduates studied a BA Hons programme in Painting, Drawing and Printmaking at Plymouth College of Art, which is one of only two independent art colleges in the UK. The programme encourages students to develop a professional practice and includes specialist technical and critical study across a wide range of painting, drawing and printmaking.

The London exhibition aims at forming new collaborations and future project exchanges between artists in London and the South West.

Exhibiting artists:

Marie Taylor
Amelia Webster
Jane Pine
Alex Lee
Michelle Burns
Natalie Rawling
Terry Channell

Uncommon Ground
at
No Format Gallery
Arch 29,
Rolt Street,
Deptford,
London SE8 5JB

Our Exhibition Calendar

Please let us know about your exhibition. We may be able to include it in future Current Events.

See more exhibitions on our Exhibitions Calendar.

all images are copyright of the artist

The image at the top is:

Masts 1 by Craig Jefferson, who is showing at the Ards Arts Centre.

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How can you find the artist easel that will work best for you? When looking for an easel that best suits the needs of your individual practice, consider how and where you will be using it – you may need a sturdy easel because you push hard against the canvas as you paint, or an easel that will tilt to horizontal for watercolour painting, or a small easel for your cosy shed painting space.

Because it can be difficult to tell what features will work and not work for you just by looking at it, we asked artists to tell us which easel they use, why they chose it and what about their easel makes it the right one for them. This collection of feedback gives an insight into a range of easels – from why you might want a Tavy easel, whose bottom picture rest can be raised independently to prevent damage to low ceilings, to why a drafting table might solve the issue of wanting to have an easel which you can use at 45 degrees, 90 degrees or even flat. It clarifies some of the particular benefits of different easels as well as helping you decide which one would really suit you.

“I own three Frank Herring easels. The best being The Herring Versatile easel. Light, extremely versatile for both oil or watercolour, very stable and strong. A joy to work on and one that I recommend when demonstrating or running workshops. It’s simply the best.” – Rob Dudley

If Frank Herring easels are what you want, keep checking the Easel Department on the Jackson’s website as we will be stocking them shortly.

“Sturdy, wheels, adjustable height and angle for working, enough room for larger canvases.” –Carole Russell

Carole Russell’s easel with a half completed commission of Flash

“I have a Winsor & Newton Thames Radial Easel. I chose it because it holds large canvases and it is easy to move around and store as until now didn’t have a permanent studio space . I’m just setting up in my new studio, I think it still looks the part.” – Sarah Pooley

If this looks and sounds like the easel you need, we have the Winsor & Newton Thames Radial Easel on our website.

Sarah Pooley’s Winsor & Newton Thames Radial Easel

“I have the Daler Rowney Cotswold Studio Easel. Tall and sturdy, I love it.” – Helen Boyd

The Daler-Rowney Cotswold Studio Easel is available on our website.

Helen Boyd’s Daler-Rowney Cotswold Studio Easel

“I have a huge studio easel I have had for decades but I now live in a tiny cottage with ceilings too low to raise it to working height. My last studio was too cold to warm up to working temperature. I can’t win.” – Peter Helton

“I have a Tavy easel. You can move the bottom picture-rest up without raising the central pole and punching a hole in your ceiling!” – Emily Morgan

You can view the Winsor & Newton Tavy T-bar Studio easel on our website.

Joanne Kane Pays’s Rustic Oak Vintage Drafting Table from Studio Designs

“I have the Rustic Oak Vintage Drafting Table from Studio Designs and I absolutely adore it! The size is good at 42 x 30 inches with Adjustable Angle Table Top from Flat to 90 Degrees and Built-in Pencil Groove with 24″ Pencil Ledge. At 90 degrees, I can paint large canvas’s with acrylics or oils resting on the ledge like you would with an easel, but after I finish those and use pastels, I angle it to 45 degrees which suits me, or flat for watercolours or pencils. I opted for this table as it’s super sturdy, after what is referred to in our house as ‘Easelgate’, where I battled with my old easel for 2 hours as it kept slipping, the canvas eventually hit me on the head, I almost threw the whole lot off the terrace and down the hill. Sense prevailed and instead did some research into what would suit me best, and this drafting table ticked all the boxes for me.

The things that almost put me off, is that a) it’s not height adjustable – but, as I sit in a height adjustable office chair, the problem cancelled itself out. b) it doesn’t have a side table – but my husband is building me a side table with a pullout underneath (like a keyboard slide out on a desk) to put my stuff on while painting. As I work from home, it was more important to me to have something stable that I can use at 90 Degrees to flat, rather than something that could be transported like for plein air (which I never have time for anyway). This drafting table was perfect for me and as a bonus, I can even use it for my sewing machine, it is that sturdy!” – Joanne Kane Pays

If you’d like a Studio Designs drafting table we stock a selection at Jackson’s and we will be adding the Oak Vintage drafting table soon.

“I used to own a draughtboard too. It was so good and may just be the answer!” – Mona George

If you want more information to help you find your perfect easel you can read The Ultimate Easel Guide on our blog.

At Jackson’s, we have a vast range of easels so that you can easily find the right one for you, whether you want to use it in the field, the studio or need one that can be packed down to save room at home. Go to our Easel Department to see the options available.

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Current Events #46. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 46 of 2017.
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21Group 50th Anniversary Exhibition: Drawn Hung and Quartered

20 – 25 November 2017

Wendy McBride, Gorse 3

The 21 Group of Artists is celebrating it’s 50th anniversary with an exhibition at Birdwood House. This exhibition explores the theme drawing, with small works in pencil, charcoal, pastel, pen and wash and watercolour being hung in a large collection. The drawings shown present a range of mark-making and insights into the way each artist works.

The 21 Group of Artists was formed in 1967, by the late Jane Prout who persuaded 20 other local painters in and around Totnes to exhibit together.
Its members are drawn from a wide area stretching from Exeter to Cornwall and upwards to Okehampton.

21 Group of Artists
at
Birdwood House Gallery
44 High Street
Totnes
TQ9 5SG

Leicester Society of Artists Annual Exhibition 2017

17 November – 16 December 2017

In Memoriam – acrylic & oil on wooden panel and lights, 55 x 120cm

The annual exhibition by members of the Leicester Society of artists who live, work or study in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (or who have very strong connections to these areas). The members and their work represent many perspectives on visual art and are committed to sharing and developing individual, original art.

New Walk Museum & Art Gallery
53 New Walk
Leicester
LE1 7EA

Gallery Heinzel: Winter Exhibition 2017

11 November 2017 – 3 March 2018

Morning Frost by Amanda Phillips on view at Winter Exhibition 2017 in Gallery Heinzel

Gallery Heinzel, which is owned and run by Maura Tighe, collects together a wide range of Scottish art. The Winter Exhibition is a show if over 70 artists’ work, covering a vast range of styles, mediums and subject matter.

Gallery Heinzel
24 Thistle Street
Aberdeen
AB10 1XD

The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts 154th Open Annual Exhibition 2017

11 – 26 November 2017

Lindsey Lavender, Station Way, 30x40cm acrylic on paper. This painting is being exhibited at the RGI Open Annual Exhibition 2017

The RGI 154th Annual Open Exhibition is comprised of contemporary works carefully selected through open call and works by living members of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. Exhibited works include paintings, sculptures, fine art photography, original prints, drawings, mixed media, stained glass and architectural drawings and models.

The RGI Open Annual Exhibition 2017
at
Granville Street Entrance
Mitchell Library
Glasgow
G3 7DN

Derek Mainella: It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine

4 October – 18 November 2017

Installation View: Derek Mainella, Untitled (shopping envy),Untitled (smoking), Oil and acrylic on canvas, 150 x 165 cm, 2017

Derek Mainella’s second exhibition at Castor Projects focuses on the apocalypse and the changing world as a theme. He queries how the technological age has changed the way we relate to time and space forever, both through his practice and his subject matter. Derek Mainella’s paintings are composed in digital space and are then turned into a physical reality on a canvas which invoke classic cartoons, digital advertising, product placement, b movie kitsch.

Castor
Enclave 8
50 Resolution Way
London
SE8 4AL

Gallery 98: An exhibition of paintings and ceramics.

25 Novembere 2017 – 6 January 2018
Private view: 25th November 2017, 6pm-9pm

Alison Boult, From the Balfron, 85 cm x 106 cm, Oil on Canvas

An exhibition of paintings and ceramics including work by: Alison Boult, Richard Burton, Maj-Gret Guapas, Clark Keatley, Kathrym Maple, Jenny Smith, Johnathan Stubbs.

For more information visit their Facebook page

Gallery 98
98 High St
Ramsgate
CT11 9RX

National Open Art: Bargehouse

17 November – 26 November 2017

Groom Richard, Masking the Truth.

Across nine main gallery spaces, the National Open Art, will be exhibiting a diverse cross-section of British and Irish contemporary art, photography and film. There will new artwork from the winners and shortlisted entrants of NOA’s 21st National Open Art Competition which include amateur and professional artists. The works have been carefully selected by a panel of judges including experienced and influential figures in the art world, from Royal Academicians to critics, curators and professionals, this ensures the work is all of a high quality.

Bargehouse
Oxo Tower Wharf
South Bank
London
SE1 9PH

People Watching

17 November – 15 December 2017
Private view: 16th November 2017

Michael Ashcroft, Stay Strong, Oyster Bar, Manchester

The Gateway Gallery collects paintings by Modern British Artists mainly of ‘The Northern School’. This exhibition focuses on the ability of the artist to tell a story with a single image; to invoke the first page of a book with a painting that goes beyond it. The figurative work shown has a strong sense of narrative and nuance throughout.

Exhibiting artists include: Peter Howson, Moira Beaty, John Hamilton, Olya Geoghegan, Harry Rutherford, Alan Lowndes, Ghislaine Howard, Geoffrey Key, Ian Mood, Steve Bewsher, Michael Ashcroft.

Gateway Gallery
116 Ashley Road
Hale, Altrincham
Cheshire
WA14 2UN

Small Talk

4 November – 26 November 2017

Gemma Lowe, Good Citizen, 2017, Oil on Canvas.

Gemma Lowe is showing a series of new paintings and a sound installation. Her work on canvas focuses on the difference between abstraction and figuration and what it feels like to be managed and overwhelmed by digital data platforms as well as the juxtaposition of images.

Coleman Projects
94 Webster Road
Bermondsey
London
SE16 4DF

A Sense of Place: Sophie Penstone and Alice Hole

20 November – 25 November 2017

Alice Hole, Pause for Thoughts of Gold.

Sophie Penstone and Alice Hole, who both live in Cornwall, are exhibiting together to show work inspired by their surroundings and by their love of the Cornish countryside. They seek to demonstrate a visual narrative of West Cornwall from the beaches to the towns and the surrounding countryside.

Sophie works in watercolour and enjoys pushing its abilities as a medium. Alice uses the Cornish landscape for her inspiration and is a member of The National Acrylic Painters’ Association and has won awards with her work.

The Poly
24 Church Street
Falmouth
Cornwall
TR11 3EG

The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition 2017

16 – 26 November 2017

‘Low sun (River Stour)’ by Louise Balaam
(2017 – oil on panel)

This exhibition acts as six small exhibitions within a large one with each room having been curated by a different expert from the art world: two are artists, two are collectors and two are critics. This show of small works is selected from work found through open submission and from artists that have been invited by the curators. This means it hangs lesser-known artists next to internationally recognised names providing an interesting and enlightening contrast.

The Discerning Eye
Mall Galleries
The Mall
London
SW1

Penwith Gallery: Members & Associates Mixed Winter Exhibition

18 November – 6 January 2017
Private view: Friday November 17 at 6.30 PM – 8.30

A combination of work from Penwith Gallery’s Full Members and Associate Members, including paintings, sculptures, prints and ceramics.

Penwith Gallery
Back Road West
St.Ives
Cornwall
TR26 1NL

The Society of Wood Engravers 80th Annual Exhibition

11 November – 23 December 2017

Louise Hayward, On Addicombe Road, 21 x 13.5 cm.

The 80th Annual Exhibition of work by members of the Society of Wood Engravers and invited artists. The Society of Wood Engravers aims to promote wood engraving and in it’s annual exhibition it shows over 100 carefully selected limited edition original prints, engraved and hand printed by the artists.

Kevis House Gallery
Lombard Street
Petworth
West Sussex
GU28 0AG

Jerwood Drawing Prize 2017 : East Gallery, Norwich University of Arts

14 November – 20 January 2017

Gary Lawrence, Yellow Kalymnos and Fridge Magnets.

The Jerwood Drawing Prize is an annual open exhibition for original drawing which promotes excellence in contemporary drawing practice. It includes work by 65 artists including both established professionals and students. The drawing varies from hand-drawn to digital pieces; performance art to sculptural work. Work on show includes Gary Lawrence’s Yellow Kalymnos and Fridge Magnets, NUA student prize-winner Jade Montserrat’s performance and drawing No Need for Clothing and Barbara Walker’s figurative drawings.

The East GalleryNUA is the first venue on the national tour of the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2017.

The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2018
at
East GalleryNUA
Cavendish House
St Andrews Street
Norwich
NR2 4AE

Ed Kluz: Sheer Folly – Fanciful Buildings of Britain

11 November – 25 February 2017

Ed Kluz, Sheer Folly -Fanciful Buildings

This large solo exhibition of Ed Kluz, a illustrator and artist, celebrates the eccentric, uncanny and overlooked follies, temples and towers that dot the British landscape.

It features original paper collages, scraper boards and prints. Kluz takes inspiration from fantastical and fanciful buildings across the UK, including the artist’s native North Yorkshire and YSP’s 500-acre, 18th-century parkland.

Ed Kluz
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
West Bretton
Wakefield
WF4 4LG

Focus Brasil UK

13 November – 18 November 2017
Private View: Monday 13 November 2017, 6-9pm

Focus Brasil UK is about topics of interest from and for Brazilians in the United Kingdom.

This art exhibition is running in conjunction with a series of events taking place at the Brazilian Embassy in London (14-16 Cockspur Street, St James’s SW1Y SBL), at the historic Amba Hotel (Bryanston St, Marylebone, London W1H 7EH), and the Gallery Space (14-16 Cockspur Street, St James’s SW1Y SBL).

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

Our Exhibition Calendar

Please let us know about your exhibition. We may be able to include it in future Current Events.

See more exhibitions on our Exhibitions Calendar.

all images are copyright of the artist

The image at the top is:
In Memoriam, acrylic & oil on wooden panel and lights, 55 x 120cm, by George Sfougaras who is showing at the Leicester Society of Artists Annual Exhibition 2017.

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Current Events #47. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 47 of 2017.
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The London Group Open 2017

Private view: Tuesday 21st November 2017, 6-9pm
Part 2: 22 November – 1 December 2017

Gethin Evans is exhibiting at Part 2 of the London Group Open. ‘Towards Skomer’, Acrylic on linen, 135cm x 210cm, 2015

The 83rd London Group Open shows work from artists selected from open call alongside the work of members from the artists’ collective, The London Group. The exhibition will feature works in a wide range of mediums, including painting, sculpture, drawing, print, photography, digital, mixed media, installation, video and an audio artwork. The second part of the exhibition runs from 22nd November to 1st December with half of the selected artists showing.

Non-member artists exhibiting in Part 2:
Susan Absolon, Art Venti, Jackie Berridge, Jo Brown, Stephen Buckeridge, Sara Choudhrey, Liz Collini, Richard Colson, Tim Cousins, Peggy Cozzi, Brian Deighton, Belinda Ellis, Zac Endter, Kira Enriquez, Gethin Evans, Paul Finn, Steph Goodger, Alexandra Harley, Lesley Hilling, Marigold Hodgkinson, Kaori Homma, Jane Hoodless, Marion Jones, Hywel Livingstone, Michael Major, Kieran Naish, Natalia Nosova, Paul Regan, Petra Regent, Amelia Kate Sampson, Lisa Traxler, Patricia Volk, Marta Wapiennik, Mandy Williams.

Video works will be shown in both parts:
Sandra Crisp, Annie Cunningham, Samantha Heydt, Emma Liebeskind, Christopher Madden, Gloria King Merritt, Dominic Negus, Micheál O’Connell aka MOCKSIM, Nikita Russi, Katy Shepherd.

The following London Group members will also be showing:
Moich Abrahams, Wendy Anderson, Victoria Bartlett, Bryan Benge, Slawomir Blatton, Frank Bowling OBE RA, Clive Burton, Robert Clarke, Peter Clossick, Tim Craven, John Crossley, Philip Crozier, Jeff Dellow, Mark Dickens, Mark Dunford, Anthony Eyton RA, James Faure Walker, Eric Fong, Cadi Froehlich, Marenka Gabeler, Genetic Moo, Tricia Gillman, Vaughan Grylls, Susan Haire, Julie Held, Bill Henderson, Aude Hérail Jäger, Martin Heron, John Holden, Gillian Ingham, Samantha Jarman, Annie Johns, Judith Jones, Richard Kemp, Matthew Kolakowski, Amanda Loomes, Jeff Lowe, Graham Mileson, Eric Moody, C. Morey de Morand, Peter Morrell, Charlotte C Mortensson, Kathleen Mullaniff, Janet Nathan, Darren Nisbett, Eugene Palmer, Ian Parker, Claire Parrish, Janet Patterson, Michael Phillipson, Christopher Poulton, Daniel Preece, Alex Ramsay, Victoria Rance, David Redfern, Tom Scase, Tommy Seaward, David Shutt, Philippa Stjernsward, Suzan Swale, Paul Tecklenberg, Almuth Tebbenhoff, David Tebbs, David Theobald, Mike Thorpe, Philippa Tunstill, Bill Watson, Tisna Westerhof, Neil Weerdmeester, Anthony Whishaw RA, Arthur Wilson, Susan Wilson, Erika Winstone, David Wiseman.

The London Group Open
at
The Cello Factory
33-34 Cornwall Road
London SE1 8TJ

Imagine Falmouth

11 November 2017 – 20 Jan 2018

Rope 3 by Sally Cole is being exhibited at Imagine Falmouth

‘Imagine Falmouth’ is a biennial open exhibition and art prize.

The Winner of the artist’s prize was Angie Munro and Winners of the under 18s prize were Lucinda and Rosie Van Vestraut.

Categories:
Artist’s Prize: £750
Public Choice Prize: £100
Under 18s Prize: Art materials

Falmouth Art Gallery
Municipal Buildings
The Moor
Falmouth
Cornwall
TR11 2RT

Winter Open Studios at the Chocolate Factory

Private View: Friday 24th November 6.30 – 9pm
24 November – 26 November 2017

Chocolate Factory’s Winter Open Studios is an opportunity to meet the wonderful collection of crafts people, artists and designers who work there, as well as seeing their emerging work in situ as it is being created and having the opportunity to buy straight from the studio.

The Chocolate Factory N16 is part renovated, part purpose built: it is a collection of 27 studios, filled by a thriving community of artists and designer makers. Each individual studio has a life and character of its own.

The Chocolate Factory N16
Farleigh Place
Stoke Newington
London
N16 7SX

The Viral Sublime: Suzi Morris

Private View: 28 November 6.30 – 8.30 pm
28 November – 17 December 2017

Suzi Morris, Mama Virus 2016, Oil on aluminium, 61cm x 46cm

Da Vinci Artists Brushes is delighted to present the inaugural London solo show of Scottish artist Suzi Morris at Herrick Gallery.

Morris explores the synergy that exists between the substance of oil paint and viral behaviour. She works in multiple layers of glaze using high resin oil colour to demonstrate its ability to modify and spread unpredictably.

During her project the Viral Sublime Morris went into laboratories and instigated collaborations with scientists.

‘These partnerships have a profound effect on her imagination and the decisions she makes in painting. The development of her painting and use of paint draws deeply on the imaginative processing resulting from a lifetime of medical treatment in suppressing Keratitis. The scientific and medical language that have become familiar to her in subduing this virus, notably words such as staining, scarring, opacity, blurring, spreading and trace, seep into her practice. The paintings of The Viral Sublime are in part, projections of her imaginary perception of the interior landscape of the body: cerebral images of abstract thoughts on parts of the body that remain unseen to the naked eye. Vertical lines function as ‘biomarkers,’ which reference the measurable indicators in the body and pay homage to the strengths and vulnerabilities of the human spirit.

Morris, co-founder of the da Vinci Artists Residency and former Art Director in Film, recently completed a practice based professional doctorate in Fine Art at UEL, supported by da Vinci Artists Brushes and Schmincke Paint. In 2012 Morris was offered a scholarship to Kingston and later received an MA in Painting from the City & Guilds of London Art School. Her work has been exhibited widely in the UK and Germany, and features as part of collections globally.’

Suzi Morris
at
Herrick Gallery
93 Piccadilly
London
W1J 7NQ

Mark Milnes

24 November 2017 – 20 January 2018

Mark Milnes, Dalek Drawing 14, Charcoal and pencil on paper.

A new series of abstract, geometric constructions and paintings from the Artistic Director of Creative Arts Hub.

Mark Milnes’s work is abstract and geometric, and is formed by repetitions of similar or identical shapes, arranged in rhythmical sequences.

Mark Milnes
at
Batley Art Gallery
Batley Library building,
Market Place,
Batley,
WF175DA

Control to Collapse

Private View: Tuesday 21st November 2017, 6pm – 8.30pm
22 November 2017 – 3 January 2018

Laura Smith, It has been falling for a long time, 2017, oil on linen, 115cm x 146cm

A group show of paintings from the following visiting artists:
Rebecca Byrne,
Liz Elton,
Tim A. Shaw,
Susan Sluglett,
Laura Smith,
Tamsin Relly,
Alex Roberts,
Clare Price,
Ann-Marie James.

Blyth Gallery
Imperial College London
Sherfield Building
London
SW7 2AZ

Flora Yukhnovich

24 November 2017 – 20 January 2018

Flora Yukhnovich, Jouissance (2017), Oil on linen, 215 x 180 cm

Yukhnovich in her paintings uses the expression of art historical aesthetic to review contemporary visual culture. In her recent work, she analyses the idea of the feminine through looking at rococo: the rococo as representative of the superficial and frivolous, and femininity as supposedly passive, submissive and decorative.

Flora Yukhnovich
at
Brocket Gallery
16 Windmill Row
London
SE11 5DW

Hannah Brown: Nocturnes

16 November – 6 December 2017

Hannah Brown, Washford Pyne 11, Oil on linen, 150 cm x 200 cm, 2016

A Solo exhibition of Hannah Brown’s intriguing, oil-painted landscapes at the Cross Gallery, Dublin.

Hannah Brown
at
Cross Gallery
59 Francis Street
Dublin 8

Outside In: Judith Symons, Wuon-Gean Ho and Constance Johnson

19 November 2017 – 4 February 2018

Collagraph by Constance Johnson.

A new exhibition of prints and works by East London Printmakers supporters: Judith Symons, Wuon-Gean Ho and Constance Johnson, at AGIP.

AGIP
1 Fairbridge Road
London
N19 3EW

Tim Patrick: Drawings and Prints

21 November – 26 November 2017

Tim Patrick, Notte, Oil on Linen, 50x50cm

A selection of drawings and works on paper by Tim Patrick.

Gallery 40
Gloucester Road
Brighton
BN1 4AQ

ARTIST ROOMS: Music from the Balconies – Ed Ruscha and Los Angeles

13 November 2017 – 29 April 2018

Edward Ruscha, Pay Nothing Until April, 2003, acrylic on canvas
60 x 60 inches, ARTIST ROOMS Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d’Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund 2008.© Ed Ruscha

A two-room display of Ed Ruscha’s work exploring his fascination with West American Culuture, held in the Artist Rooms of the Scottish National Gallery.

Included works will range from photographic series, paintings and drawings dating from the early 1960s to the 2000s. Thematically this demonstrates Ruscha’s interest in urban landscape and architecture, cinema, brands, automobile-culture and language that refers and relates to the aspirations and seduction of the American Dream.

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
75 Belford Road
Edinburgh
EH4 3DR

Liz Douglas: Mire: Pools & Pockets

4 November – 29 November 2017

Liz Douglas, Broomy Gutter, Mixed media on canvas 150cm x 150cm

The work of Liz Douglas is about landscape with an emphasis on particular places. She uses drawing to collect information from a wide variety of sources when researching sites which interest her. She is trying to find a way of incorporating drawing into painting. What is drawing and what is painting – are they the same? This is a constant theme in her work.

Contemporary practices in both drawing and painting, in relation to traditional methods, are a constant challenge in order to find innovative ways of making work that challenges her perception of landscape. She paints often on a large scale, layering paint to create surface texture, colour and structure.

Liz Douglas
at
&Gallery
17 Dundas Street
Edinburgh
EH3 6QG

A Sense of Place: Heather Duncan

12 November – 17 December 2018

Heather Duncan: A Sense of Place

‘Dynamic landscapes constructed out of blocks of colour, textures of paint and numerous gestures, accents and modulations; these are the means by which Heather Duncan expresses a highly personal view of her environment. Places take on a remarkable importance, in particular the rugged northern landscape of vast Pennine moorland, striking fells and crags, monumental castles, and expansive coastlines.’ -Martin Goold

Heather Duncan
at
The Old Lock Up Gallery
19, The Hill
Swifts Hollow
Cromford
DE4 3RF

Homeland: Andrew Farmer

18 November 2017 – 11 March 2018

Andrew Farmer, Last Light, oil on canvas

A selection of original oil paintings, drawings and sculptures, made from observation, on the theme of home by Andrew Farmer. The works range from plein air scenes of the local surroundings to indoor scenes of intimate, family life.

Andrew based in Sprotbrough and spent his childhood in the Doncaster before moving to study in Canterbury Kent. Andrew studied a degree in Fine Art, specialising in painting. Since then, Andrew has also attended the Royal Drawing School in London where he received the Richard Ford Award for drawing.

Andrew has also exhibited with the Royal Society of Marine Artists, the New English Art Club and the Royal Institute Of Oil Painters all hosted at the Mall Galleries close to Trafalgar Square. Andrew received the Windsor and Newton award at the ROI in 2015.

Andrew Farmer
at
Cusworth Hall Museum & Park
Cusworth Lane
Doncaster
DN5 7TU

Drawn Towards Light: Hazel Soan

29 November – 7 December 2017

Hazel Soan, Alfresco, 11 x 15 inches, watercolour

Hazel Soan, a British artist who works out of studios in London and Cape Town, paints in watercolour and oil and is known for direct wet-into-wet watercolour approach. Her work focuses on strong contrasts of light and shade as well as shape, interval and tone.

Her work is in collections at the National Portrait Gallery, the Lister Institute, the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, the Ritz, other London and International Hotels, the British Embassy in Ankara and the EU Delegation in Windhoek. She has participated in mixed exhibitions including ones with the Royal Academy, the Barbican Centre, the Midland Open, Mall Galleries and the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation.

Hazel Soan
at
The Gallery, Soan Studio
Crookham Road
London
SW6 4EG

Meffan Gallery: Winter Exhibition

18 November – 30 December 2017

Nicky Sanderson, Calanais III Loch Roag collage and watercolour 80 x 60cm

The Meffan Winter Exhibition, features a variety of artwork from amateur and professional artists based in Scotland.
Works range from impasto landscapes where the textures of the Scottish countryside are captured in undulations of paint, to poetic delicate pieces carefully constructed in thread and fine paper, as well as brightly coloured and enthralling oils on canvas and screen prints.

Meffan Museum Art Gallery
20 West High Street
Forfar
DD8 1BB

Recent Paintings: Elizabeth Meadows and Helen Douglas-Cooper

Private view: Thursday 23 November 6–9pm
21 November – 26 November 2017

Helen Douglas-Cooper, Blue, 152x152cm, Oil on canvas

A joint show of non-figurative work by Elizabeth Meadows and Helen Douglas-Cooper, both of whom explore the possibilities of pictorial space, colour and mark-making as well as the process of layering works, either in practice or by the simultaneity of their making.

Elizabeth Meadows interprets the relationship between one space and the next: the layered acrylic paintings focus on repetition and concentrated forms such as the bar, the curve, the stripe to invoke or resonate a sound which is either muffled or sharp depending on the colour.

Helen Douglas-Cooper explores in her work the space or tension between the actual, physical paint surface of materials and marks and the virtual space of the image. She develops paintings by adding and removing elements in alternating layers of saturated and muted colours until thee image reaches a point when everything holds together in a dynamic balance. An underlying geometry, experimentation with process, and the materiality of the paint surface are recurring themes; colour is an animating force.

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

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Current Events #49. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 49 of 2017.
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The Working Artist: The East London Group
29 September – 17 December 2017

Albert Turpin, Salmon & Ball, c. 1955

Michael Rosen, a writer and broadcaster, and Emma-Louise Williams, a radio producer and film maker, have curated a new collection of over 50 paintings for this exhibition. It has a focus on Albert Turpin, who was a window cleaner, fireman, Mayor of Bethnal Green and a leading member of the anti-facist movement — a true ‘working artist’. Three new commissioned works by Lindsey Mendick, Marcus Orlandi and Maxima Smith are on display at the show.

The East London Group of artists in the inter-war period consisted of ordinary working men and women who attended art classes and exhibited additionally to their day jobs. There were 35 members and this exhibition will include work by William Coldstream, Walter Sickert, Elwin Hawthorne, Brynhild Parker, Harold Steggles, Walter Steggles and Albert Turpin.

The Nunnery
181 Bow Road,
London
E3 2SJ

Nicolas Party: Speakers
25 November 2017 — 18 February 2018

Nicolas Party: Speakers (2017). Courtesy of the artist and The Modern Institute/ Tony Webster Ltd, Glasgow. Photo by Ben Westoby.

Swiss artist Nicolas Party has taken over the Piper Gallery with a new commission of a theatrical cast of female heads that represent and acknowledge the achievements of pioneering women who have inhabited the city of Oxford. This work is meant to refute the heavily masculine energy of Oxford’s architecture and academic history.

It includes a soundscape and invites participation through its use of space.

Nicola Party
at
Modern Art Oxford
30 Pembroke Street
Oxford, UK
OX1 1BP

Winter Exhibition 2017: Mandall’s Gallery
2 December 2017 – 6 January 2018

Andrew King, Harvest Fields, North Norfolk Oil on Board 27x33cm

Mandall’s Gallery Winter Exhibition shows a wide range of work, featuring an eclectic mix of traditional and contemporary fine art.

The image above is by Andrew King who has had work selected many times for exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London, commencing with the Britain in Water-colours exhibition in 1978, the National society (elected a member in 1984) the Royal Institute of Painters in Water-colours, the New English Art Club the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the Royal Society of Marine Artists.

Mandall’s Gallery
Elm Hill,
Norwich,
Norfolk,
NR3 1HN

Second Floor Studio Arts Painting Open 2017
Private view: Thursday 7th December
7 December – 17 December 2017

Steve Burden, Small Shelves 2

Second Floor Studio Arts seeks to create opportunities for their studio members and the wider artistic community. Their first painting open brought together local painters and buyers, this one which shows the work of 60 artists hopes to do the same. All submitted works are accepted and they pride themselves on being a true open.

Artists exhibiting:
Richard Baker / Helen Bermingham / Susana Blanco / Sasha Bowles / Camilla Brendon / Broughton & Birnie / Steve Burden / Louisa Chambers / Joss Cole / Andrea Coltman / Helena Denholm / Nicholas Dietrich / Robin Dixon / Fritz Duffy / Robert Fitzmaurice / Sarah Gilman / Matthew Gould / Callum Green / Simon Haddock / Stephen Harwood / Iain Herdman / Richard Heys / Nicky Hodge / Daniel Huckfield / Mandy Hudson / Jack Irish / Marion Jones / Neil Kelly / Gareth Kemp / Rod Kitson / Ivilina Kouneva / Christopher Lessware / Ascension Lorente-Huguet / Ashley Loxton / Paula MacArthur / Jane Molineaux Boon / Sarah Needham / Diana Palmer / playpaint / Nicole Price / Richard Proctor / James Reynolds / Alison Riordan / Andrej Repack / Wendy Saunders / Anna Marie Savage / Laura Jane Scott / Maria Silva / Andrew Smith / Lucy Smith / Mary Thrasivoulou Spence / Mimei Thompson / Giuseppe Troccoli / tubecomix / Toby Ursell / April Virgoe / Daniela White / Tabitha Wilson and Xenia.

No Format Gallery
Arch 29
Rolt St
London
SE8 5JB

Blackwood and Dynes: Limbic Sprawl
2 December – 16 December 2017

Stan’s Lift, Grasshopper Plaza, 2016, Acrylic paint on linen, 80cm x 100cm x 1.5cm

This collaborative exhibition between Blackwood and Dynes, who are both experimental abstract painters living in Deptford, focuses on abstract interruptions that harness conditions of uncertainty in negotiation for space. It uses the possibilities of movement to make it appear contained and writhing within constructed constraints. They create work that appears as suspenseful portals and landscapes that have precarious structures and shifting amorphic forms. They seek to combine and form a two visual languages that interact in the organised chaos of their work. They formly worked under the name Stan’s Lift.

Stan’s Lift
28 Deptford High Street,
SE8 4AF

Mixed Group Exhibition, Connection

2 December – 23 December 2017

Elfyn Lewis, Trisant, 9x9in acrylic on paper/mdf

This exhibition features a selection of work by artists who have exhibited in the gallery since March and gives a taste of the what will be on offer.

Exhibitors include:

Andrew Mackenzie, Anke Roder, Anna Somerville, Deirdre Macleod, Elfyn Lewis, Ele Pack, Gillian A McFarland, Hanna ten Doornkaat, Jai Llewellyn, James Lumsden, Jan Axelsson, Jana Emburey, Jane Cairns, Jeffrey Cortland Jones, Joy Arden, Lisa Denyer, Liz Douglas, Mary Morrison, Megan Chapman, Michael Craik, Michelle Benoit, Patricia Cain, Phil Lavery, Rhona Fleming & Sam Lock.

The work above is by Elfyn Lewis whose surfaces are layered until the point they explode, creating vivid landscapes and eruptions that are intended to transfix the viewer.

&Gallery
17 Dundas Street
Edinburgh
EH3 6QG

The Drawing Year 2016-2017: Open Studios
29 November – 9 December 2017

Drawing by Christabel Macgreevy

The Drawing Year’s Open studios coincides with the End of Year Postgraduate Exhibition at Royal Drawing School Shoreditch.

Exhibiting artists include:
Joshua Bristow, Rosie Chamberlain, Jessica Jane Charleston, Ben Westley Clarke, Becca Collins, Mark Connolly, Laurie Crean, Somaya Critchlow, Lee Cutter, Joana Galego, Alexander Gilmour, Judith Hagan, Nancy Haslam-Chance, Emily Hill, Richard Ayodeji Ikhide, Charlotte Johnston, Alice Macdonald, Christabel MacGreevy, Isaac Nugent, Jackson Rees, Tom Scotcher, Dorry Spikes, Jamie Stenhouse, Gideon Summerfield, Jack Fawdry Tatham, Stefan Tiburcio, Catherine Watson, Peter Wenman.

The Royal Drawing School Shoreditch
SPACE
129-131 Mare Street
Hackney
London
E8 3RH

Across Penwith from Coast to Coast by Nigel Haward

5 December – 30 December 2017

Nigel Haward, Brisons’ wave, Cape Cornwall. Watercolour.

Nigel Haward paints in watercolour and acrylic, his subjects include harbours, boats, landscapes and marine studies. For more information visit Nigel Haward’s website.

St Mary’s Church,
Chapel Street,
Penzance,
Cornwall
TR18 4AQ

Beyond Boundaries
Private View: Thursday 7 December 6-9pm
5 December – 10 December 2017

Meem Mehreen Hasan, Qatar Painting Size- 29 H x 48 W x 1 in Ships in a tube

Beyond Boundaries, curated by Carlos de Lins, is a collection contemporary art that has an innovative and creative scope and includes paintings, drawings, sculptures, photography, mixed media works and installations. The artists present situations in which their subject matter may be confined within boundaries as well as taking a step forward in a journey of discovery and beyond.

Exhibiting artists include:
Maya Armon, Richard Brayshaw, Anna Biesuz, Kanwal Dhaliwal,
Esperanza Gómez, Mehreen Hasan, Kirsty Kerr, Charles McLaren,
Aga Robak, Size92

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

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Current Events #50. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 50 of 2017.
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Massaging The Message

8 December – 17 December 2017

Annie Zamero ShambHala Warrior. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 150 x 100 cm

‘The Magma Group seek to examine to what extent Marshall McLuhan’s well known phrase ‘The Medium is The Message’ applies to fine art. This is explored in their exhibition of paintings and sculpture atArthouse1. McLuhan said ‘Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of…media…than by the content of the communication’. However The Magma Group ‘…whilst not denigrating the role of medium in the ultimate work, credit other aspects with having equal input…in the transmission of its message…’ says art writer/critic Anna McNay. She further points out that the group believes ‘…expressive use of feeling,…’ a well developed idea and ‘…sensitive ..handling of the artist’s medium’ are all necessary to get the artist’s message across.’

Exhibiting Artists includep: Kimbal Quist Bumstead, Siro Carraro, Dagmar Dost-Nolden, Michael Hutchison, Carolina Khouri, Andrew McDonald, Gary William Myatt, Marie-Therese Ross and Annie Zamero.

Arthouse1
45 Grange Road
London
SE1 3BH

Flotsam and Jetsam

11 December – 16 December 2017

A piece by SGS staff for the Flotsam and Jetsam exhibition

This exhibition is made up of paintings, prints, greetings cards and stained glass mirrors made by members of the Preparation for Work and Life Department at SGS College.

Amanda Cooke, Judith Birkett, Val Saunders, Fay Crawford, Charlotte Darleston and Katie McCue.

Stroud Subscription Rooms
George Street,
Stroud,
Gloucestershire
GL5 1AE

Art for Living – @Sybil Colfax & John Fowler

6 December – 21 December 2017

Art Student, 2015 by Hedley Roberts

Recent works by seven contemporary artists:
Fergus Hare, Mat Humphrey, Hedley Roberts, Kadie Salmon, James E Crowther, Jack Milroy, Zachari Logan

Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler
89 – 91 Pimlico Road,
London
Sw1W 8PH

Anthony Donaldson – Patrick O’Reilly – Colin Self: Three Wise Men

6 December – 20 December 2017

Antony Donaldson, Saskia, 1974-1976 Acrylic lacquer on Beauty board 44.5 x 48.5 cm (17 1.2 x 19 inches)

This gallery brings together the work of Antony Donaldson, Patrick O’Reilly and Colin Self who are all renowned artists and long standing friends of the gallery. All three have collected and taken inspiration from popular culture in their careers creating their own visual imagery which is highly regarded. This show includes work in the mediums of painting, collage and sculpture.

The Mayor Gallery
21 Cork Street
First Floor
London
W1S 3LZ

12 Days

8 December – 19 December 2017

Myrtle Pizzey, Footbridge over Sheppey, Linocut

A pop-up exhibition of applied and fine art with a winter theme, curated by Paul Newman.

12 Days is a collection of Fine and Applied Arts, gathered to celebrate Yuletime, in the beautiful setting of the Round Tower at Black Swan Arts in Frome. It is a collection of Printmaking, Ceramics, Woodwork, Painting and Drawing, on a Winter theme.

Exhibiting artists include:
Amanda Bee | Alice Blogg | David Daniels | Jon England | Bjork Haraldsdottir | Susanna Lisle | Clare Mahoney | Paul Newman | Myrtle Pizzey | Howard Phipps RWA | David Smith | Liz Somerville | Sarah Targett | Sarah Truscott | Matt Waite | Guy Watts | Suzanne Woodward

Black Swan Arts
2 Bridge Street,
Frome,
Somerset
BA11 1BB

Landmarks

12 December – 23 December

Fiona Moate, Acrylic on Canvas

This is AIR Gallery’s first external exhibition. Land Marks includes the work of Kate Davies, Sarah Feinmann, Magie Hargreaves and Fiona Moate. It focuses on nature and the traces, erosions and edifices, from wheel tracks to monuments, fences to hill figures, that are the results of time, history and people’s interactions with their surroundings.

There is an evening event on the 14th December.

Art Open House Garden
at
AIR Gallery, A4 Studios
30 Grosvenor Rd
Altrincham
WA14 1LD

Paper Cuts

14 December – 16 December 2017

Francisco Mendes Moreira Untitled 1 oil pastel on paper 25 x 32 cm

Paper Cuts is an exhibition of new artists from around the world. They’ll be holding an event on December 14th and all the works will be available online, with new works on paper added every day

Tripp Gallery
59 Amwell Street,
London,
EC1R 1UR

Entre Amis

7 December – 17 December 2017

Donna Huddleston, Transitional Drawing, Part 3, 2016, Courtesy of the artist

A fundraising exhibition of newly commissioned artist’s editions and unique works by a range of internationally acclaimed artists.

Exhibiting artists include:
Lisa Brice, Thomas Dozol, Tom Ellis, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard,
Fabienne Hess, Donna Huddleston, Samuel Levack and Jennifer Lewandowski,
Cary Loren, David Noonan, Nicholas Pankhurst, Lyle Perkins, Thomas J Price,
Caragh Thuring, Jessica Warboys, Sue Webster, Lucy Woodhouse

French Riviera
309 Bethnal Green Road
London
E2 6AH

Kingsley Nebechi Solo Exhibition

12 December – 17 December 2017

Illustration of a woman by Kingsley Nebechi

Kingsley Nebechi is an Italian born, British raised illustrator. His work is inspired by his love for patterns, comics and fashion.

Kingsley’s artwork has been featured on book covers, ad campaigns, product packaging
and animation.

Kingsley Nebechi

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

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Current Events #51. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 51 of 2017.
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Eloquent Silence: Stefanie Trow

30 November 2017 – 23 January 2018

Stefanie Trow, Fraction

An exhibition of Stefanie Trow’s paintings.

“Eloquent Silence is a series of work inspired by nature, the human condition and the art of looking. This really came to the forefront of Stefanie’s mind since giving birth to her daughter in 2015 and the subsequent many hours spent walking around parks and being immersed in nature.
During this time Stefanie was able to rethink what was important to her and appreciate her surroundings. It also dawned on her that we rarely look up – but conversely a baby in a pram does little more than stare at the tree canopy, branches and leaves. It is only when she considered this different viewpoint that she realised the potential for new works in the natural shapes, colours and patterns that lay above.

Using these ideas as a vehicle to abstract the figure, Stefanie’s canvases have grown into a bold and colourful amalgamation of outdoor life experiences and time spent in the studio. Both figures and foliage merge and melt into one another, leaving us struggling to separate one from the other.
Stefanie wants the viewer to be intrigued, to draw them closer to the details of the work, discovering the layers of brushstrokes that have been built up to create each piece. At first the paintings appear semi abstract but if we keep looking a new world starts to take shape.”

Stefanie Trow
at
The Lowry Hotel
50 Dearmans Place,
Chapel Wharf,
Manchester
M3 5LH

Thomas Bock

6 December 2017 – 11 March 2018

Thomas Bock, Mithina (Mathinna), 1842, watercolour, presented by J H Clarke 1951, courtesy Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, AG290

This is the First UK exhibition of the work of convict artist Thomas Bock. It includes a wide range of drawings, paintings and photographs on various subject matter.

A serious focus of Bock’s work is his series of portraits of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people.

‘His drawing throughout is fine and the likenesses probably very true. The sitters have a demeanour that conveys both pride and despair, suggesting that Bock, being marginalised himself, closely identified with them and sought to convey the tragedies suffered by these indigenous people through the British settlement in Australia.’

This exhibition was organised by the Ikon Gallery and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.

Ikon Gallery
1 Oozells Square,
Brindleyplace,
Birmingham
B1 2HS

Local Art Show 2017: Dartmoor

13 December to 17 January 2018

132 Laura Boyd- Abstract Devon part of the Topsham Art Group, who are showing at Local Art Show 2017: Dartmoor.

The Local Art Show 2017: Dartmoor shows range of work from art groups and societies from Exeter and the surrounding area.

The theme this year is Dartmoor and complements the RAMM’s main winter exhibition, Dartmoor: A Wild and Wondrous Region which examines the artists’ portrayal of Dartmoor and the development of tourism in the 19th century.

Rosie Denham, Exeter’s former Lead Councillor for Economy and Culture, explains “With the annual Local Art Show we aim to recognise, reward and foster creativity in the city. We hope that the Dartmoor theme of the 2017 competition will also foster the close relationship between the city and the moor for the benefit of Devonians and visitors alike. We are grateful to the Express and Echo for their continued support”.

Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery
Queen Street
Exeter,
Devon EX4 3RX

Escaping Wars and Waves

6 December 2017 – 7 January 2018

Olivier Kugler, Syrian Refugees on Kos Island, commissioned by Médecins Sans Frontières

This is an exhibition of sketches, original drawings and prints of finished illustrations depicting Syrian refugees by Olivier Kugler. Who met them in Iraqi Kurdistan, Greece, Calais, England and Germany. The work was partly commissioned by Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières with half of the profits from sales going to them.

In June 2018, the book will be published in the UK under the title ‘Escaping Wars and Waves’ by Myriad Editions / New Internationalist.

Mezzanine Gallery, Rich Mix
35 – 47 Bethnal Green Road
London
E1 6LA

The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition

11 November 2017 – 23 December 2018

Roger Allen, ‘Sedbergh and the Howgills’

This exhibition is made up of submissions to the 30th year of The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition. It is the largest and most prestigious prize for contemporary watercolour painting in the UK, including abstract, figurative, contemporary and traditional work.

Trowbridge Town Hall
Market Street,
Trowbridge,
BA14 8EQ

Naughty and Nice

19 December – 23 December 2017
Private View: 6-9pm Tuesday 19 December 2017

This exhibition is a selection of work organised and curated by Sweet ‘Art. It includes a Krampus’ lair which involves naughty and nice treats which are not for the faint hearted.

Visitors arriving early may be lucky enough to bag one of our limited numbers of crackers to discover if Krampus believes you have been naughty or nice.

Sweet Art

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

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Over the last year Jackson’s monthly competitions have featured a whole host of amazing themes and entries, including vivid loose acrylics, meticulous botanical illustration and emotive realist portraiture. Because it’s nearing the end of the year we’ve collected together all our incredible Winners and People’s Choice Winners, that have been selected from thousands of entries, so that you can view and enjoy the talent of these artists. These competitions run from May till December and are separate from our annual prestigious competition Jackson’s Open Painting Prize which opens for submissions on 3rd January 2018  (click here to find out more about JOPP).  You can click through to each individual competition to find out more about them and view the shortlists, which include a vast and fascinating range of styles and subjects. Congratulations to all our winners, thank you to everyone who took part in judging and of course thank you to all of the entrants!

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Jackson’s Pastel Landscapes Competition – June 2017

Winner: ‘Clapham Common Autumn’ by Louise Gillard.

Pastels are often used for landscapes because of the ability to build up many layers and blend colours together, from creating a stormy sky to a field full of flowers. For this reason our June 2017 competition invited artists to submit their landscapes in pastel. Prizes included a year’s Silver membership of the Pastel Academy run by artist and tutor Heather Harman and a Set of 60 Art Spectrum Soft Pastels in a Wooden Box worth £194! There were also two People’s Choice Awards voted for by the public where each winner received a Half-Stick set of 40 Art Spectrum Soft Pastels worth £60.

‘Clapham Common Autumn’ by Louise Gillard, Created using Sennelier Soft Pastels on Hahnemuhle Velour Paper, 38 cm x 28 cm

The overall winner was ‘Clapham Common Autumn’ by Louise Gillard, who received a year’s Silver membership of the Pastel Academy run by artist and tutor Heather Harman and a Set of 60 Art Spectrum Soft Pastels in a Wooden Box worth £194. This work was created using Sennelier Soft Pastels on Hahnemuhle Velour Paper, 38 cm x 28 cm.

People’s Choice Winners:

Jackson’s Urban Sketching Competition – July 2017

Be it a quick gestural sketch in a coffee shop or a complete study of a building, Urban Sketching is loosely defined as drawings which capture a specific atmosphere or moment in time. For this competition we asked for submissions of urban sketches within a city environment. The prizes included Pigma Micron Pens & Strathmore Art Journals.

 

‘Little Venice, London’ by Katie Clare

Winner: ‘Little Venice, London’ by Katie Clare.

Description: Canal boats and Regency style town houses in Little Venice, London.

Medium: Pen and watercolour on A4 watercolour paper, sketched on location.

To find out more about Katie Clare you can read our interview ‘Always Ready to Draw: Katie Clare’s Love of Urban Sketching’ with her here.

You can look at more of her work on her Instagram.

People’s Choice Award Winners:

Jackson’s Atmospheric Acrylics Painting Competition – August 2017

The versatility of acrylics has made them a pioneer of modern artistic expression. Having only emerged in the last century, their bright colours, immediacy and durability have encouraged works in all forms, from realism to expressionism and everything in between.

For this competition we were looking for all things acrylic! We wanted your paintings that embrace acrylics as a medium and show its incredible versatility.

‘July’ by Zosia Olenska

Overall winner, chosen by Jackson’s Judging Panel:  ‘July’ by Zosia Olenska

Description: Letting it all hang out! The feeling of a hot, carefree Summers day.

Medium: Golden, Liquitex and Turner Acrylic Gouache on ply, 11 x 14 inches

Zosia received the following prizes:

Golden Fluid Acrylic Paint Set of 10 x 30ml £59.95 RRP
Golden High Flow Assorted Set 10 x 30ml £59.95 RRP
Golden Heavy Body Acrylic Paint Principal Set 6 x 60ml £53.95 RRP
The judges appreciated this work’s painterly qualities and its ability to capture both a specific narrative and raw emotion.

To find out more about Zosia Olenska you can read our interview with her here.

You can also visit her website to see more of her work.

People’s Choice Winners:

Jackson’s Summer Seascapes and Landscapes Watercolour Competition – August 2017

Because World Watercolour Month was happening throughout the whole of July and because of the beautifully sunny days, we thought it would be a great idea to celebrate the two! From shimmering seas to rolling green fields, for this competition we were looking for artworks that celebrate the season of summer through landscapes or seascapes in watercolour. The prizes included impressive sets of Schmincke Horadam Watercolours.

 

‘Hidden Path’ by Sophie Rodionov

‘Hidden Path’ by Sophie Rodinov was chosen as the overall winner of the Summer Seascapes and Landscapes Watercolour Competition by the Jackson’s judging panel . We chose this painting because of its painterly qualities and the sense of atmosphere – you almost feel like you are on a walk in the damp woods! We also had two People’s Choice Awards that were decided by public vote.

‘Hidden Path’ by Sophie Rodionov

Description: Watercolour painting which was started on location and finished in a studio.

Medium: Watercolour (Daniel Smith, Holbein, Schmincke Horadam) on paper. 38 x 56cm

Sophie received a Schmincke Horadam Watercolour Paint Set of 24 Full Pans worth £175 RRP.

To find out more about Sophie Rodionov you can read our interview ‘Talking Watercolour with Sophie Rodionov’ here.

People’s Choice Winners:

Jackson’s Mussini Oil Painting Competition – September 2017

Oil paints have been used in Europe since the 12th century. They have a fantastically broad history spanning a myriad of painting genres. In our international September competition, kindly sponsored by Mussini Oils, we were looking for all kinds of oil painting!

 

‘Dutch 1’ by Lindsey Carr

Our overall winner was  ‘Dutch 1’ by Lindsey Carr, selected by Jackson’s Judging panel.

Description: A contemporary rendition after the Dutch ‘Tulip-mania’ paintings of the 17th century.

Medium: Jackson’s and Winosr & Newton Oil on panel, 50cm x 50cm

Lindsey received £150-worth of the gorgeous Schmincke Mussini Oil Paints of her choice.

You can find out more about Lindsey on her website.

People’s Choice Winners:

Jackson’s Plant Life: Botanical Illustration Competition – October 2017

Botanical Illustration is the process of rendering a plant species in both a scientifically accurate and aesthetically appealing manner. Originating from a need to assist the identification of a species, it has been practised for hundreds of years. It has now become a contemporary art form with work often completed in watercolour or coloured pencil. We are celebrated the tradition of Botanical Illustration by running our ‘Plant Life: Botanical Illustration Competition’!

‘Fading Beauty’ by Vivienne Rew

The overall winner, chosen by The President of the Society of Botanical Artists, Sandra Wall Armitage was ‘Fading Beauty’ by Vivienne Rew.

Description: Number 5 in a series of 6 paintings titled ‘Metamorphosis – Life cycle of Papaver orientale’

Medium: Winsor & Newton Watercolours and Schmincke Watercolour on paper, 45x45cm

Vivienne received the prize of  Winsor & Newton Deluxe Wooden Chelsea Box Set £152.99 RRP.

Sandra’s comment on the piece was: “A well observed and vibrant piece with exquisite detail showing how a plant has a natural beauty to the end and possessing great wall appeal.”

You can read more about Vivienne in our interview with her here.

You can see more of Vivienne’s work on her website.

Highly Commended by our Judge, Sandra Wall Armitage:

Jackson’s Marker and Pen Drawing Competition – November 2017

Uni Ball sponsored our mid-month competition in November! We were looking for any genre of 2D work made with majority markers and pens.

‘Tojimashita (closed)’ by Simon Parish, Letraset Promarkers and Sharpie Permanent Markers, 71x72cms

The Overall Winner, chosen by Jackson’s Judging Panel was ‘Tojimashita (closed)’ by Simon Parish.

Description: Tokyo’s informal flowerpot gardens are an un-regarded yet ubiquitous site in Japanese cities. What I found interesting in such a contemporary ‘global city’, were how these overlooked sometimes discarded areas were being modified and reclaimed by the local individual. In a city apparently lacking in green space these small unauthorized gardens appear in all sorts of overlooked areas and set up a type of barrier or border between the private and public space, much needed when interior and exterior space are often only separated by a pane of glass. The plants themselves have been influenced by the popular TV programs shown in Japan about English gardens and gardening. The drawings, adapt a dry technical drawing style for the buildings which echo the grid structures of much of Tokyo’s urban planning and try to contrast this with a more careful and tender approach to the plants themselves, I allow the plants to ‘grow’ in size and heighten certain plant colours to contrast them against the rather beautiful white/grey monochrome tone of the city.

Medium: Letraset Promarkers and Sharpie Permanant Markers, 71x72cms

Simon received a huge box set containing 54 Posca Pens in various thicknesses worth £229 RRP as a prize.

People’s Choice Winners:

Jackson’s Pastel Portrait Competition – November 2017

Pastels are an ideal medium for painting portraits, whether it’s people or animals in a realistic or expressive style. In November’s competition, we were looking for portraits of people and animals in any genre of painting. Works were completed in a majority pastels of any kind, including soft pastels, hard pastels, panpastels and pastel pencils. The artwork needed to feature a portrait.

’90 Today’ by Emma Colbert, Soft Pastel, 16 x 22″

The Overall Winner, chosen by Jackson’s Judging Panel was ’90 Today’ by Emma Colbert.

Description: I went to meet and photograph this lady on her 90th birthday. She was so lady like in her mannerisms but felt very uncomfortable sitting in a chair. Her natural place seemed to be perched on the edge of the chair ready to be busy at any moment. I used my photographs from that meeting to produce this image.

Drawing up a rough sketch first I fine tune this until I can transfer it to my velour pastel paper. Then I use the soft pastels to block in and later some pastel pencil for fine detail.

Although her face told many stories I still wanted it to be flattering to her so I worked hard to keep the palette light and not too heavily contrasted.

Medium: Soft Pastel, 16 x 22″

Emma received DaVinci Pastel Brush Set £24.60 RRP, DaVinci Pastel Applicator Set £14.30 RRP, Faber Castell Set of 60 Pitt Pastel Pencils £115.25 RRP.

You can find out more about Emma on her website.

People’s Choice Winners:

Jackson’s Festive Image Call Out – December 2017

Every December we look for an original art work to front our festive email card! We accepted paintings, drawings or prints that depict just about anything from a beautiful winter landscape to a merry Christmas scene.

Christmas At The Red Hut Cards by Anna Wilson-Patterson

Christmas At The Red Hut by Anna Wilson-Patterson won, who will receive her choice of £300 RRP of Daler Rowney products from Jackson’s online shop and her artwork will be sent to over 70,000 people in our newsletter!

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