Exhibitions – Page 6 – Roy Connelly

Chelsea Art Society Painting Award

St Michaels Mount_by Roy Connelly At Chelsea — Chelsea Art Society Award for a Painting - St Michaels Mount

This evening was the private view for Chelsea Art Society’s 62nd Annual Exhibition. I am very pleased to say that I won the Chelsea Art Society Award for a Painting for my picture of St Michael’s Mount in Cornwall. The society, which was formed in 1910, holds its annual exhibition in a beautifully panelled hall in Chelsea Old Town Hall on the Kings Road in London.

chelsea_old_town_hall — Chelsea Old Town Hall

The exhibition runs until Sunday 21st June and is open daily 10am-7pm. Closing at 1pm on the final day.

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London’s Salon Des Refusés

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The summer show at Llewellyn Alexander Fine Paintings opens on Monday 8th June. Titled Not the Royal Academy 2009, this fine exhibition is London’s answer to the Salon des Refusés.

Every painting is for sale and may be taken by the buyer straight away, creating space for another to be displayed. Paintings will be on show for three weeks, after which new work will be hung.

Last year I was very pleased to hear that my painting of Kensington Gardens was the first to sell when the exhibition opened.

LLEWELLYN ALEXANDER GALLERY
124-126 The Cut, Waterloo, London SE 1 8LN UK
(Opposite the Old Vic Theatre)
Tel: 020 7620 1322/1324 Fax: 020 7928 9469
e-mail enquiries@NotTheRoyalAcademy.com

The Gallery is open from 10am until 7.30pm. Monday to Saturday.

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Sunny Sunday Afternoon

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The hottest day of the year so far and I have just spent a very enjoyable afternoon at the studio of Bob Brown NEAC. Set in beautiful rolling English countryside beside a very paintable river, Bob has the perfect studio. It was completely filled with an exhibition of his richly coloured landscapes.

Ken Howard and Richard Pikesley, another two of my favourite painters, were also there, along with many other friends. Many thanks to Bob and Sue for their wonderful hospitality.

Afterwards I spent an hour painting painting the nearby river, one of Englands most beautiful chalk streams. While I was painting a mayfly settled on my hand among the brushes.

A quick sketch - 8 x 10 inches, oil on board

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John Dobbs Exhibition

A day in London

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Today I delivered 5 paintings to Llewellyn Alexander (Fine Paintings) Ltd in London. I travelled in on the tube with my trusty box easel and paint bag as well as the framed paintings. I had wondered how I would get everything there and in the end I put the pictures in a large portfolio for extra protection.

I met up with fellow artist Richard Price and we each painted a couple of small pictures in Trafalgar Square. The light was good despite the sun going in and out all day and the wind that did its best to blow debris on the wet paint.

Landscape painter Karl Terry spotted us on his way home from the Chelsea Flower Show and his wife found herself painted into our pictures. Thanks Jo for being so patient!

Thanks also to Lucy for the squeeze of cadmium red 😉

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Kent and Sussex Art Fair

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The second annual Kent and Sussex Art Fair opens this week.

Wednesday 13 – Sunday 17 May 2009

The Great Barn, Halden Place
Rolvenden, Kent
TN17 4JA

The Great Barn is just outside the village of Rolvenden (which is on the A28). If using Sat Nav, please follow AA signs once in the Rolvenden area.

Many thanks to Nadia and Sarah – whose hard work makes this such a wonderful exhibition.

Exhibiting artists:

Ann Armitage, Louise Balaam, Sarah Batt, Shona Barr, Julia Cassels, Colin Carruthers, Roy Connelly, Chris Daynes, Lindsay Denning, Sandy Dooley, Sarah Elder, Michael Ewart, Soraya French, Charlotte Grant, Emma Haggas, Bryan Hanlon, Jeannette Hayes, Mary Jackson, Susan Kirkman, Bridget Lansley, Nick Leigh, Sarah Lewis, Malcolm Ludvigsen, Imogen Man, Jo Maw, Fiona MacRae, Jo Oakley, Tuema Pattie, Bella Pieroni, Jonathan Pocock, Georgina Potter, Jeffrey Pratt, Lucy Pratt, Richard Price, Raymund M Rogers, Adam Roud, Harriet Salt, Francesca Shakespeare, Minnie Shaw Stewart, Helen Simmonds, Jane Skingley, Daphne Stephenson, Zarina Stewart-clark, Karl Terry, Paul Treasure, Angela Van Oss, Paul Vanstone, David Wheeler, Jake Winkle.

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Leaden Hall Summer Exhibition

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Friday sees the opening of the Leaden Hall Summer Exhibition in Salisbury. I will have several paintings in the show including the two shown here.

The view of the cathedral across the Harnham Watermeadows was painted on the 19th of March 2009 especially for the show. It is painted in oil on stretched Belgian linen canvas and measures 51 x 60 cm (20 x 24 inches).

Itchenor is a lovely location in West Sussex on the eastern edge of Chichester Harbour. A great place to watch to boats and birds on the estuary. The painting above is in oil on board and measures 25.5 x 30 cm (10 x 12 inches).

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London by Six

By The Thames in Richmond

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Here is one of my recently completed paintings. It was painted over three days in March 2009 on the river front at Richmond in Surrey. Most of the work was done on the first two days and on the third day I was just making a few corrections. The picture was allowed to dry between painting sessions.

As most of my pictures are painted in ‘one wet’, it was quite a luxury this time to be able to work over dry paint. One of the things I enoy about painting a picture like this one is the challenge of painting the people (staffage). They are all painted from life and, obviously, it is easier when they come and sit by the river than when they just walk by. In which case I will often mark the position of their head and feet to fix their size on the canvas and adjust the scale as they walk away – diminishing in size. And as for those who cycled past – well – I’ll just pretend I didn’t see them.

It is oil on board and measures 10 x 20 inches (25.5 x 51cm).

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