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In February Vice President Mick Davies was invited to Tokyo to open the Minerva 2019 exhibition for Qualiart – our Japanese sponsors.

This year there were 228 ‘Honorary Guest Members’ who all attended the special dinner to coincide with the opening of the show. It took place in a large country hotel built in traditional Japanese style and Mick was the Guest of Honour. Following the meal he gave a speech and shook hands with everybody – which included having 228 individual photos taken!

During the dinner, Mick presented Mr Kushida, Qualiart’s CEO, with a Fellowship Diploma on behalf of the Society and he, in turn, presented the Society with an additional £3,000 as sponsorship for next year’s RBA RISING STARS Exhibition.

The following day Mick opened the Minerva exhibition which took place in The Tokyo Imperial Museum. He selected three prizewinners and discussed their works individually with 228 very keen artists. In the evening he was taken to another celebratory dinner in one of Tokyo’s top restaurants before returning very tired but happy to his hotel.

 

LARA would like to offer this Prize to a young artist whose work balances an impressive level of technical understanding with a subject and treatment that is authentic and relevant to the twenty-first century.

The recipient will receive a place on a LARA Short Course of their choosing (excluding Masterclasses) at our London studio, to be taken up within one year. Please visit https://www.drawpaintsculpt.com/product-category/courses/short/ to see our full range of scheduled courses including our Summer School.

The London Atelier of Representation Art (LARA) was set up in 2008 in response to the lack of rigorous skills-based training available in the UK. Our alumni work in fields as varied as portraiture, theatrical scenic art, digital and concept art, teaching and fine art.

Drawing from the past | Skills for the future

Click here to read last year’s winner’s diary from her week at LARA.

• Austin Cole has had a print accepted for the Lynn Painter-Stainers exhibition and three of his prints have been shortlisted for the NEAC

• Melissa Scott-Miller also has works in the Lynn Painter-Stainers show The Lynn Painter-Stainers is running now and closes on the 17th March

• Annie Boisseau has had a painting selected for the RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition at the Bankside Gallery, and this show is running until the 20th March

• Malcolm Ashman, Susan Bower, David Eustace, Brian George, Martin Leman and William Selby have all been invited to show work at the Selected RBA Show at the Bircham Gallery in Holt, Norfolk. This exhibition is on from the 9th March – 3rd April

• Melissa Scott-Miller, Malcolm Ashman, Robert E Wells, Steven Outram and Mick Davies have all had work in the Affordable Art Fair, in Battersea, London

• Over 30 RBA artists have their work showing in the M1 Gallery in Charing Cross until the 31st March. Artists include: Will Taylor, Cheryl Culver, Jon Pryke, Stephen Darbishire, Cinzia Bonada, Ronald Morgan, Julian Halsby, Akash Bhatt, Stephen Brown, Miranda Halsby, Ann Heat, Terry Watts and Jacqueline Taber, amongst others. The show will be transferring to the M1 Greenwich Gallery in April

• Following Mick Davies’ return from Japan last month, having opened the Japanese version of the Rising Stars, Qualiart have confirmed that they will sponsor the RBA RISING STARS and Rome Scholarship with a £3000 donation on an annual basis.

We also have news of some of our RISING STARS:
• Ben Duax is showing some work as part of a group exhibition in Gallery Number Nine in Swindon
• Charlie Schaffer has had his work included in the Lynn Painter-Stainers exhibition and he was awarded a prize
• Oliver Bedeman also had a work in the Lynn Painter-Stainers show – though we have to admit that having applied for the Rome Scholarship last year, he did not make it into the semi-finals. He was a near miss though!

 

The Best of British

Trent Art Gallery September 2019 Exhibition of Royal Society of British Artists

   

Exhibition Dates:

Private View: Thursday 5^th September 2019 6pm – 9pm

Exhibition: Friday 6^th September to Saturday 28^nd September 2019

Address Details:

Trent Art Gallery, 19 Brunswick Street, Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire, ST5 1HF

Contact Details:

Gallery Owners / Directors:

Ruth Palmer 07769 271415

Henry Birks 07917 525271

Gallery Landline 01782 610588

Email: art@trent-art.co.uk

Website: www.trent-art.co.uk

Social Media:

 Twitter: @TrentArtGallery

Facebook: trentartgallery

Instagram: trentartgallery

Opening Hours:

 Monday: By appointment

Tuesday: 10am – 4pm

Wednesday 10am – 4pm

Thursday 10am – 5pm

Friday 10am – 5pm

Saturday 10am – 5pm

Sunday: By appointment

 

Richard Sorrell has a show called “Things I Have Noticed” on the 5th February at:
Panter & Hall Gallery
22 Cecil Court
London
WC2N 4HE

The5^th is the ‘Meet the artist day’ and Richard will be at thegallery then. 
The exhibition continues until 16th February, daily from 10am – 6pm

Richard Sorrell is also planning a painting/drawing holiday in May on the Calabria coast and invites other members to join him.  Please let me know if you would like further information and I will pass your details on to Richard

Anthony Lester, FRBA, has written a 4-page article for the February issues of ‘Antique Collecting’ to celebrate the 120th Annual Exhibition of The Pastel Society

Annie Boisseau  has work in the upcoming Pastel Society Exhibition at the Mall Galleries.  The show runs from 5th – 16th February
 
Annie Boisseau has also had a painting selected for the:
RWS 2019 Contemporary Watercolour Competition
Bankside Gallery
8th – 20th March

Andrew Marr Hon RBA with Adrian Hemming is showing: ‘Fragments and Drawings’
at Thrown
Highgate Contemporary Art (Ground Floor),
26 Highgate High Street,
London N6 5JG
The show is on from 1st February – 24th February

Mick Davies will be travelling to Japan once more on the 14^th – 21^st February when he will be opening Qualiart’s MINERVA exhibition in Tokyo and he is the Guest of Honour at the Japanese version of their RISING STARS exhibition at the Imperial Museum, also in Tokyo, where he will be judging and awarding prizes

Mick Davies has also been invited to contribute a work to The Chelsea Arts Club Exhibition at the Chelsea & Westminster hospital, which starts on the 12th February and continues for a few months

Rome Scholarship applications have now closed with another record entry ofover 150 young artists.  From these, the Education Committee will beselecting 20 to show their work at the RBA RISING STARS Exhibition atthe Royal Over-Seas League in April.  Alongside these will be the 21Star Students they have selected from The Arts Society’s regional entries.

RBA Selected Members at the Bircham Gallery Norfolk.
The show will include work by Malcolm Ashman, David Eustace, Brian George, Martin Leman and William Selby with sculpture by Neil Wood.
The show will run from 9 March – 3 April.