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The Bath Prize

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I have just returned from the artist’s Private View of the The Bath Prize.  It was a fun evening and a chance to catch up with painter friends from across the country.

Live music for the evening was provided by guitarist Ben Powell whose fingerstyle guitar playing has recently been admired by Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones.  Ben was also the subject of my painting Busking by the Abbey, below, which was painted in the square next to the Pump Rooms and Bath Abbey last month and is on show at the exhibition.

When you are out painting and it starts to rain it pays to carry on.  I got soaked painting the picture shown above, Queen Square Downpour, and was pleased to see it Highly Commended by the judges.

Fellow plein air painter and someone else who is not afraid to paint in the rain is my friend David Pilgrim. David won the Plein Air prize and was also awarded a Golden Umbrella for his painting Rainy Day, Broad Street. Well done David!

The main Bath Prize went to Adrian Sykes for his impressive pencil drawing Buildings of Bath.

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Bath Trip

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Bath paintings

Here are some of the paintings from my trip to Bath last week.  I was there for 2 and a half days and painted 19 small panels.  The smallest was 6×8 and the largest 12x16inches.  There are several I am quite happy with and a couple that were not finished due to changing light and heavy rain, but overall it was a good trip.

The heavy downpour on Friday afternoon resulted in one of my favourite pictures from the whole trip.

Downpour in Queen SquareAbove: Downpour in Queen Square, 6×8 inches, oil on board.
Below: Busker outside the Pump Rooms, 6×8 inches, oil on board.

Bath Busker

While I was painting I met up with the winner of last year’s Bath Prize Plein Air award, Adebanji Alade. He has posted photos of several  painters he found at work on the streets of Bath on his blog.  You can see me, Karl Terry and Michael Richardson as well as plenty of Adebanji at work on his own marathon painting project.

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Painting in London

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Last week was a busy one, painting in London with Paul Rafferty and Karl Terry along with David Bachmann and Julian Barrow.

We painted at all of the following locations: Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square, St James’s Park, Strand on the Green, Royal Academy, Royal Opera Arcade, Pall Mall, House Boats at Chelsea, Sargent’s Studio in Tite Street, Aldwich, Trafalgar Square (again) Strand on the Green (again), the Old Vic Theatre and Hammersmith Bridge.

The pictures above show us painting in Julian Barrow’s Tite Street studio previously occupied by John Singer Sargent.

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Cover Prize Shortlist

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WitteringLight

My painting Wittering Light has been short-listed in a competition to choose a cover image for the next Ken Bromley Art Supplies catalogue.

To see all the shortlisted images  click here and don’t forget to vote for your favourite!

Another of my paintings, Watching the Thames,  has also been long listed for the London Lives painting competition.

Update: This picture has now made the shortlist and will feature in the exhibition at Bankside gallery in September.

Watching the Thames

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Peter Brown and the NEAC at Messums

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I spent this afternoon at Messum’s in Cork Street where Peter Brown NEAC gave a very entertaining talk on his life as a painter on the streets of London and Bath.

Having recently spent a day painting with Peter in London and watching his painting emerge from the blank canvas it was good to hear his thoughts on everything from coping with changing light to why he wont use a camera.

The talk coincided with the exhibition The Magic and Poetry of Everyday Life. A collection of paintings by New English Art Club artists from its beginnings in the nineteenth century to the present day.  This fine exhibition is well worth seeing and runs until the 3rd of July 2010.

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Sunshine at last!

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Embankment Sunny Lunchtime

London has warmed up and the sun has been shining for a week now so it has been good to be able to paint without a jacket on.

On Friday I spent a very enjoyable day painting in London with Peter Brown NEAC. Along with Susan Wolff and Ann Hopkins the four of us set up our easels by Cleopatra’s Needle next to the River Thames.  You can see one of my pictures above.

St James ParkIn the last week I have painted at Marble Arch,  Hyde Park,  The Mall and St James Park (above).

Duke of York Square in Chelsea

Above is a view Duke of York Square, by the King’s Road in Chelsea.  All the paintings shown here are 8×10 inches (25x30cm) and are in oil on board.

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