Prize winning work from the Royal Society of British Artists. Follow this exciting journey and view the prize winning works from the 2021 exhibition
To watch video interviews with the Prize winners
Part One:
https://www.mallgalleries.org.uk/about-us/blog/royal-society-british-artists-prize-award-winners-2021-part-one
The RBA Exhibition is now online and looking good! Let’s hope that we will be able to see it at the Mall Galleries in April – for most of us it has been a very long time since we visited any exhibition in person, so fingers crossed.
Meanwhile, there are some great online shows at the moment and here are a few:
At the Chappel Galleries there is the Winter Exhibition 2021, “Portraits and People in Paintings”, although they are hoping to open the gallery from the 12th April. Hon RBA member Shanti Panchal is one of the featured artists and he gives a really fascinating talk about his life and paintings on video, which can be seen here:
http://www.chappelgalleries.co.uk/exhibitions-11/winter-2021/winter-2021.htm
The Gallery is at 15 Colchester Road, Chappel, Essex CO6 2DE
Anthony Yates has a solo show at the Fosse Gallery, Stow-on-the-Wold, called ‘Out of Darkness’ which until the 27th March can be seen here:
https://fossegallery.com/exhibitions/anthony-yates-rba/
The exhibition highlights 25 of Tony’s works that includes sketchbook studies as well as works new and a few previously seen elsewhere, which all fit well together.
Another online exhibition is Melissa Scott-Miller ‘London Paintings’ at the Twenty Twenty Gallery in Ludlow. The show takes you on a walk from Mayfair through to Tower Hamlets, interspersed with views of Islington back gardens
Melissa also has a video ‘Backs of Houses’ which is on the RBA page on the Mall Galleries website, but can also be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2523pBxmfPo
Hon RBA Ken Howard OBE RA has his second solo exhibition with
The Portland Gallery, 3 Bennet street · London SW1A 1RP
from 25th March – 16th April
The Geedon Gallery, Jaggers, Colchester CO5 7DN, is holding its
Spring Exhibition 2021 from the 27th March – 11th April. http://www.geedongallery.co.uk/exhibitions/spring-exhibition-2021/
Included are works by some of our RBA Members:
News from some of the RBA RISING STARS:
Merlin Bateman-Paris had his work ‘Portrait of a Clown’ included in the Pastel Society Annual Exhibition:
And our RBA Exhibition 2021 contains works from several of our
RBA RISING STARS past and present:
It is quite difficult to find cheering news at the moment, but we have found the following ‘newsy’ items:
This show at the Russell Gallery is still on – running until the end of January:
Russell Gallery: Mixed Christmas Exhibition
12 Lower Richmond Road, Putney, London SW15 1JP
The show at Watts Contemporary Gallery is still on until the 21st February:
‘In Print: 2020 Vision’
Nicola Slattery and Melvyn Petterson are among the artists showing.
The gallery is in Down Lane, Compton, Surrey GU3 1Q
Carole Griffin has an article in the January edition of the Artist Magazine. She is demonstrating how to paint roses using watercolour, and her final piece will be in the RBA Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries:
Hon RBA Ken Howard OBE RA, will be having his second solo exhibition with
the Portland Gallery, 3 Bennet street, London SW1A 1RP
from 25th March – 16th April
The Royal West of England Annual Open Exhibition – is online only and can be seen here: https://www.rwa.org.uk/collections/art-exhibitions/products/rwa-168-annual-open-exhibition
Among the artists are RBA members:
News from some of the RBA RISING STARS
Included in the Royal West of England Exhibition:
Owain Hunt was also Included in the Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition 2020:
Included in the Ruth Borchard Collection virtual exhibition: “The Artist in His Studio” is Charlie Schaffer [he won the BP Portrait Award in 2019]. His painting “Self-portrait with Rembrandt’s Jewish Bride” has been shortlisted for the Sequested Prize a competition created to show self-portraits made throughout the first 6 months of lockdown:
And Alice Boggis-Rolfe has been awarded the Diana Brooks Prize at this year’s Art For Youth [online] exhibition:
Submissions close: Friday 5 February, 12 noon [EXTENDED]
(Digital) Selection: Friday 5 February to Friday 12 February, 12 noon
Selection Notification: Friday 19 February, 12 noon
Exhibition online: Monday 1 March, 12 noon
Receiving Days: Saturday 27 March and Sunday 28 March, 10am to 5pm
Virtual Tour: Wednesday 14 April, 9am
Preview Day: Wednesday 14 April, 12pm to 7pm
Exhibition open: Thursday 15 April, 11am to 4pm
Prizewinners announced (online): Thursday 15 April, 5pm
Exhibition closes: Saturday 24 April, 4pm
De-install: Sunday 25 April, 9:30am start
Collection of unsold work: Thursday 29 April and Friday 30 April, 10am to 5pm
Annie Boisseau has been featured in ‘The Artist’ magazine – this was an award she received at the 2019 RBA Exhibition, and the magazine is now out and available online
The Artist Magazine – Annie Boisseau:
Annie is equally proud of becoming grandma to two beautiful baby girls, just 6 months apart, during this lockdown period.
That’s triple congratulations to Annie!
Henry Jabbour
Henry Jabbour has work in the “Only Human” Exhibition at the FIDRA Fine Art Gallery, Gullane in Scotland. The show is from 31st October – November 30th
And Henry also has work in the “Masters of Paint” Exhibition, at the Pontone Gallery, Augusta, Georgia, USA. That show will run from November 9th – December 6th
The Discerning Eye Exhibition:
Bridget Moore was personally invited to exhibit 4 works in this year’s Discerning Eye Exhibition by one of the selectors, David Remfry RA. She says “I don’t know him, so I was really surprised and delighted to be invited to put my work forward to be exhibited.”
Other RBA artists included in the Discerning Eye Exhibition are:
Akash Bhatt, Melissa Scott-Miller and Austin Cole.
[Some of our RBA RISING STARS are also in this show” – see further down]
The Discerning Eye is a virtual show this year and is online from 19th Nov – 31st Dec
Christmas Exhibitions:
Holt Gallery: ‘The Best of British’ has works from members of the RBA as well as the NEAC. Among the RBA artists featured are: Charles Hardaker, Malcolm Taylor, Terry Watts, Sarah Spackman, Susie Perring, Barbara Richardson, Robert E Wells, Carole Griffin, Chris Myers, Lewis Hazelwood-Horner, Melissa Scott-Miller, Rebecca Cains, Bridget Moore, Hon RBA Wayne Attwood, Non RBA Peter Brown and Austin Cole.
This Holt Exhibition runs from the 14th November – 23rd December 2020 at
The Gallery Holt, 23 Lees Yard, Holt Norfolk NR25 6HS
Russell Gallery: Mixed Christmas Exhibition
12 Lower Richmond Road, Putney, London SW15 1JP
RBA artists taking part are: Martin Leman, Cheryl Culver, Richard Sorrell, Jacqueline Taber, Jill Leman, Robert E Wells, David Eustace and Melvyn Petterson
This Exhibition runs from the 26th November 2020 – 30th January 2021
Watts Contemporary Gallery’s ‘In Print: 2020 Vision’ is showing works from various artists including Nicola Slattery and Melvyn Petterson.
The gallery is in Down Lane, Compton, Surrey GU3 1Q
The Watts exhibition is from 2nd Dec. 2020 – 21st Feb. 2021
News from some of our RBA RISING STARS:
Included in the Discerning Eye Exhibition are:
Habib Hajaliie, Jonathan Farningham and Alex Wood
Ruth Murray, who was the winner of Jackson’s Painting Prize 2020 with her painting ‘Geraniums’ can be seen talking about her winning painting and her experience of winning the main prize online here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tmzysT6Eq8&feature=youtu.be
Ruth Murray with her winning painting “Geraniums”
Minyoung Choi tells us that she will be part of a group exhibition called “Devil’s in the Detail” at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery in Wandsworth, London. This is “An exhibition that celebrates creativity: the ambiguous, the strange, the various and the bold”
The exhibition runs from 8th Dec – 16th January 2021
Alex J Wood has written to say that he has recently been awarded a grant from The De Laszlo Foundation and that he has now completed his latest bronze sculpture “Claw of Archimedes”, which draws inspiration from Greek Mythology:
It was good to see them both
It is pleasing that some of our members have some good news to share with us. As the Covid restrictions start to take effect again – or in some cases continue to take effect – it is sometimes difficult to raise a smile, but it also feels good to hear of positive things happening for some of our members:
Callum Stannard our youngest RBA member and newest member of the Council, has quite a lot to smile about … despite his arm being in a sling at the moment! He was awarded “The Society’s Prize” by the Society of Portrait Sculptors for his work
‘Mother’ and he was also commended by the Tiranti Prize in the same exhibition, Face 2020:
https://www.portrait-sculpture.org/gallery-5-face2020
Stephen Brown has work in The Autumn Hampshire Art Fair at the Nadia Waterfield Fine Art Gallery, in The Old Grain Store, Westover Farm, Andover, Hampshire SP11 7LF. The Exhibition runs from 6th – 28th November:
https://nadiawaterfieldfineart.com/events/the-autumn-hampshire-art-fair-2/
Sarah Spackman will be showing 12 – 15 of her works at The New Ashgate Gallery, Waggon Yard, Farnham, Surrey GU9 7PS, in an exhibition called “Specific Beauty”. The exhibition runs from the 14th Nov – 9th Jan 2021: http://The New Ashgate Gallery,
Sue Campion has a solo show from the 5th – 21st November at the Russell Gallery, 12 Lower Richmond Road, Putney, London SW15 1JP
https://www.russell-gallery.com/sue-campion-2020/gallery.php?artist=SUE%20CAMPION%20RBA
The Royal Academy Summer Show was renamed the ‘Winter’ show this year as it has only just opened, and the RBA was well represented:
Also on show are works by Hon RBA members:
Olwyn Bowey RA James Butler RA, Frederick Cuming RA,
Anthony Green RA, Ken Howard RA, Philip King RA,
and Michael Sandle RA,
https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2020/rooms
Also news from some of our “RBA RISING STARS”:
Henrietta Macphee had a work, a glazed ceramic, selected for the RA Summer Show:
Poppy Field had works included in The Society of Portrait Sculptors
Alex Wood’s film “Blown Away” was selected by a panel of Mayfair gallerists to be screened at The Mayfair Art Weekend. The film was inspired by his trip to America when he was exhibited in Los Angeles. It depicts his bronze “Drone” sculpture traversing the American West landscape:
Ben Duax was profiled by the online magazine Panhandler, which is published by the University of Western Florida and the item is here:
https://panhandlermagazine.com/2020/09/02/ben-duax/
Alice Boggis-Rolfe was commissioned by Sky Arts to paint a number of paintings around the country to give to the MPs of various constituencies, celebrating the channel going free-to-air in September:
A smile …
A father passing by his son’s bedroom was astonished to see the bed was nicely made, and everything was picked up. Then, he saw an envelope, propped up prominently on the pillow. It was addressed, ‘Dad’. With the worst premonition, he opened the envelope and read the letter, with trembling hands:
“Dear Dad,
It is with great regret and sorrow that I’m writing you. I had to elope with my new girlfriend, because I wanted to avoid a scene with Mum and you. I’ve been finding real passion with Stacy, and she is so nice, but I knew you would not approve of her because of all her piercings, tattoos, her tight Motorcycle clothes, and because she is so much older than I am.
But it’s not only the passion, Dad. She’s pregnant. Stacy said that we will be very happy. She owns a trailer in the woods, and has a stack of firewood for the whole winter.
We share a dream of having many more children..
Stacy has opened my eyes to the fact that marijuana doesn’t, really hurt anyone. We’ll be growing it for ourselves, and trading it with the other people in the commune, for all the cocaine and ecstasy we want.
In the meantime, we’ll pray that science will find a cure for AIDS, so Stacy can get better. She sure deserves it!!
Don’t worry Dad, I’m 15, and I know how to take care of myself.
Someday, I’m sure we’ll be back to visit, so you can get to know your many grandchildren.
Love, your son,
John.
P.S. Dad, none of the above is true.
I’m over at Tommy’s house. I just wanted to remind you that there are worse things in life than the school report that’s on my desk.
I love you!
Call when it is safe for me to come home. ;)”
Pamela Kay has a solo show coming up at the Russell Gallery, in Lower Richmond Road, SW15 1JP. All the paintings will be on the wall and online at: russell-gallery.com
The exhibition is on from the 10th September until the 3rd October:
“Jam Jar of Buttercups” – Pamela Kay
Austin Cole has a work in the Royal Society of Marine Artists Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries. The show opens on the 30th September and runs to the 10th October and, like all exhibitions at the Mall at this time, tickets are available online.
“The Headland” – Austin Cole
Austin has also had two works selected for the upcoming NEAC Exhibition at the Mall Galleries. That show will run from 11th – 21st November.
Anthony Yates has been invited to be their “RBA Guest Artist for the Month of September” by the Trent Art Gallery, 19 Brunswick St., Newcastle-under-Lyme, Newcastle ST5 1HF, where his works can be viewed in the gallery and online:
https://trent-art.co.uk/yates-anthony-1957-rba/
“Euphrosyne” – Anthony Yates
“Flowers on the Draining Board” – Anthony Yates
Akash Bhatt was selected by Trent Art Gallery, 19 Brunswick Street, Newcastle, Staffordshire, ST5 1HF as their ‘RBA Guest Artist of the Month’ for August and his works are still available to be seen on the Trent Art website:
https://trent-art.co.uk/artist/bhatt-akash-1972/
“Crossing New York City” – Akash Bhatt
“City Dog in the Countryside” – Akash Bhatt
Akash is featured in an online interview with the Bankside Gallery, along with some sketches of his mother completed during lockdown:
https://www.banksidegallery.com/news/76-interview-with-akash-bhatt-rws/
And Akash also has work in “A Narrative” a group watercolour exhibition at The Gallery Holt, Lees Yard, Holt, Norfolk NR25 6HS
From 18th Sept – 28th October:
https://thegalleryholt.com/exhibitions/
Ann Wright will be the next artist to be featured by the Trent Art Gallery, she will be “RBA Guest Artist for the Month” of October:
“The Little Park, Montmartre” – Ann Wright
“Back Gardens, Montmartre” – Ann Wright
Jacqueline Taber has a solo exhibition at Twenty Twenty Gallery, Finningham Road, Walsham le Willows, Suffolk P31 3PG
This runs until the Autumn
Nicola Slattery has a solo exhibition at the Fosse Gallery, The Square, The Manor House, Stow-on-the-Wold, Cheltenham GL54 1AF. The show “Stories without Words” is an exhibition of her paintings completed over the past three years and it opens on the 4th October and continues until the 24th.
https://fossegallery.com/exhibitions/
“Moths and Flowers” – Nicola Slattery
“Red Rider” – Nicola Slattery
Nicholas Verrall is another artist with a solo exhibition, this time at The Catto Gallery, 100 Heath Street, London NW3 1DP
“Chapel in the Woods” – Nicholas Verrall
“Mist Rising over Monastero della Certosa” – Nicholas Verrall
Nicholas’s exhibition runs from 26th September – 14th October
Shanti Panchal is featured in an online virtual 3D exhibition of his work at the Ben Uri Gallery – “Shanti Panchal: A Personal Language of Painting 2007-2018”
https://publish.exhibbit.com/gallery/665207327/marble-gallery-10313/
“The Roots or Route to Helmand 2010” – Shanti Panchal
Shanti also co-curated “Midnight’s Family 70 years of Indian Artists in Britain” an online exhibition which celebrates the contributions of Indian artists working in Britain over a 70 year period. This can be seen at the website of the Ben Uri Gallery – the exhibition was designed to coincide with the date of Indian Independence, 15th August 1947.
“Laxmi-Narayan and Son” – Shanti Panchal
https://benuri.org/exhibitions/view-3d-exhibits/
Some Reminders – These shows are still on:
Henry Jabbour at the Pontone Gallery until Sept 13th
“It feels like hope” – Henry Jabbour
Cheryl Culver at The Gallery Holt until September 15th
“Atlantic Coast” – Cheryl Culver
“As they were and will be again” at the Royal Overseas League
“A Walk Before Dark” – Steven Outram
“The Queen Mary arriving in New York on her maiden voyage from Southampton” – Mick Davies
This virtual show also includes works from Annie Boisseau, Richard P. Cook, Carole Griffin, Lewis Hazelwood-Horner, Henry Jabbour, Guy Portelli, David Sawyer, Melissa Scott-Miller, Nicola Slattery, Sarah Spackman, David Sprakes, Callum Stannard and Anthony Yates.
And another reminder … the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours have their show on at the Mall now and it includes works from
‘RBA RISING STARS’ Habib Hajallie and Alex Wood.
Another ‘RBA RISING STAR’ is Georgina Lowbridge, who tells us that she is now showing works with Phillipson Fine Art, whose website is: https://www.phillipsonfineart.co.uk/georgina-lowbridge-2!
During these strange times it is good to know that there are still some things for our members to look forward to and here are a few of them:
Henry Jabbour, our newest RBA member has an upcoming solo show in London at the Pontone Gallery, 43 Cadogan Gardens, London SW3 2TB. The exhibition is titled ‘Traces Remain’ and will run from August 13th – September 13th. Further details can be found here:
https://pontonegallery.art/exhibitions/62/https://pontonegallery.art/exhibitions/62/
Guy Portelli has been working on a sculpture project that celebrates the history of the Isle of Wight Festival from 1968 – 70. The concept was to collect the handprints of musicians who performed and mosaic them on to a large panel and so far approx. 80 handprints have been collected. Many of the great bands and musicians have donated hand prints for the panel, including Jorma, Jack and Grace of Jefferson Airplane, Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke of Free, The Pretty Things, Richard Thompson and Kris Kristofferson.
The panel can now be seen in ‘Wight Spirit 68-70’ at the Masterpiece Gallery, Norland Place, Holland Park, London W11 4QG from 27th July – 5th September: https://masterpieceart.co.uk/exhibitions/
A reminder [see June Newsletter] that Nicola Slattery and Richard Sorrell both still have works showing in the Fosse Gallery, Stow-on-the-Wold until the 29th August – and also included is work by SenRBA Pamela Kay:
The Jewel in the Town – The Ruby Years, Fosse Gallery at 40!
Trent Art Gallery, 19 Brunswick Street, Newcastle, Staffordshire, ST5 1HF have selected Martyn Baldwin as their ‘RBA Guest Artist of the Month’. His works are available to be seen online throughout July at:
https://trent-art.co.uk/artist/baldwin-martyn-rba-1959/
Martyn speaks very highly of the gallery – and they speak very highly of him!
Cheryl Culver has work in the ‘Drawing from the Heart’ Exhibition being held at the The Gallery Holt, 23 Lees Yard, Holt, Norfolk NR25 6HS. The show brings together a selection or original pastel paintings from various artists …
https://thegalleryholt.com/product-category/drawing-from-the-heart/
I am sure that many of our members know the youngest member of the Culver family – and Honorary RBA Mascot – who celebrated his 5th birthday recently. You can see from the photo that he found it a joyous occasion:
And another smile with which to end:
It is heartening to hear that some galleries are hoping to open their doors again soon, and Nicola Slattery has informed me that the Fosse Gallery in Stow-on-the-Wold have announced that they hope to be re-opening in June. Nicola has a couple of her paintings in their mixed show opening July 5th – 29th August, which is called:
‘The Jewel in the Town – the Ruby Years, the Fosse Gallery at 40!’The exhibition also includes work by Richard Sorrell
Nicola will have her own exhibition in that gallery called “Stories Without Words” opening in October:
RBA members Melissa Scott-Miller, Peter Brown and Tom Coates, who are also members of the Royal Portrait Society [RP], have some works in the RP online exhibition at the Mall Galleries:
The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours [RI] also have their online exhibition at the Mall, and it includes works by RBA members Chris Myers and Peter Weaver, who are both also members of the RI:
Many of our RBA artists have their work in the Mall Galleries’ online …
Figurative Art Fair
https://www.mallgalleries.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/figurative-art-fair
Other RBA artists included in the Figurative Art Fair are:
David Brammeld, Peter Brown, Cheryl Culver, Fred Cuming, James Horton, Henry Jabbour, Jill Leman, Martin Leman, Chris Myers, David Sawyer, Melissa Scott-Miller, Richard Sorrell, Sarah Spackman, Jacqueline Taber, and Robert E Wells
Jacqueline Taber informs us that The Geedon Gallery in Colchester, Essex CO5 7DN will be open from 15th June – 1st September, showing works from the Small Paintings Group. They include works by RBA artists:
Anne Heat, Christopher Miers, Cinzia Bonada, Joyce Cairns, Judith Gardner, Ken Howard, Peter Kelly, William Packer, Barbara Richardson, Jacqueline Rizvi, Richard Sorrell and Nick Tidnam
RBA’s first ‘Virtual Exhibition’ – “As they were and will be again” is still on the Royal Over-Seas League’s website:
http://www.rosl.org.uk/rbaonline
and also on the RBA website:
https://old.royalsocietyofbritishartists.org.uk/rosl-at-home-with-the-rba/
Featured artists include Richard P Cook, Callum Stannard, Sarah Spackman, David Sprakes, Mick Davies, Lewis Hazelwood-Horner, David Sawyer, Nicola Slattery, Annie Boisseau, Steven Outram, Anthony Yates, Melissa Scott-Miller, Guy Portelli, Carole Griffin, and Henry Jabbour
Members Terry Watts and Cheryl Culver have work in the ‘The Landscape Collection at M1 Fine Art. https://m1fineart.com/exhibitions/32-the-landscape-collection-a-virtual-art-exhibition-bringing-the-great-outdoors-to-you/works/
THE LANDSCAPE COLLECTION | A VIRTUAL ART EXHIBITION
BRINGING THE GREAT OUTDOORS TO YOU
3 – 15 JUNE 2020
Cheryl Culver has six pastel paintings in a pastel exhibition at The Gallery Holt called ‘Drawing from the Heart’
An exhibition held from the 7 August to 15 September 2020 at The Gallery, Holt.
We are always delighted to report news from our past “RISING STARS” and we are pleased to see these works in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ online show:
Owain has been especially featured and interviewed in the Cass Art blog, “Art in Isolation”. The full article can be found here:
https://www.cassart.co.uk/blog/art-in-isolation-owain-hunt.htm?sc_src=email_7429758&sc_lid=353170384&sc_uid=hOx4jBBEkZ&sc_llid=41022&sc_eh=346a333a62ea56b71&utm_
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Habib Hajallie has shown his works with the RBA and has now had three of his works selected for the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours online show:
And Alex J Wood has once again written to inform us of some exciting news: He tells us that he has received an Arts Council Grant. His latest bronze sculpture “Scylla and Charybdis” develops an ongoing series of his works drawing inspiration from Greek myths and during the lockdown he has also been working on a film for a film festival. His work “The Kraken!” is included in the online RI exhibition at the Mall Galleries:
