Jackson's Competitions

Pastel Landscapes Competition Winners Have Been Chosen!

9th June 2017 by   3
After a week of voting, our winners for our Pastel Landscapes Competition have been chosen! Jackson’s judging panel decided the overall winning artwork was ‘Clapham Common Autumn’ by Louise Gillard – who will receive a year’s Silver membership of the Pastel Academy with tuition from pastellist Heather Harman (worth over £200) and an Art Spectrum Soft Pastel Wooden Box Set of 60 worth £194. View the winners of the People’s Choice Awards and our highly commended entries below!
‘Clapham Common Autumn’ by Louise Gillard – Winner of 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.

Created using Sennelier Soft Pastels on Hahnemuhle Velour Paper, 38 cm x 28 cm

The two entries with the most votes have been awarded our People’s Choice Awards, each receiving a Half-Stick set of 40 Art Spectrum Soft Pastels worth £60.
‘Crickets Chirping’ by Christopher Reid

18×24″ pastel on paper

‘Water’s Edge’ by Kathy Dolan

7.5 x 12 inches
Soft pastels on Uart 800 paper

As the standard of entries was so high within the shortlist, we wanted to highly commend two entries which very nearly won first prize. The two artists below will each receive an Art Spectrum Landscape Set of 15 Soft Pastels.
‘Spanish Palms’ by Richard Suckling

Unison Pastels and Caran d’Ache Pastel Pencils on Sennelier Pastel Card. Finished painting from sketches and photos made in Spain. 55cm x 50cm.

‘Wedding Vines’ by Teresa Allen

The Spring vines at the beautiful Quinta Sant’Ana, Gradil, Portugal where Teresa’s daughter was married last week. An assortment of soft pastels ( Nupastel, Unison and Sennelier) on Fisher400 paper with a watercolour underpainting. Size 12 x 8″

Our next competition launches Friday 16th June and will be focused around Urban Sketching. Bookmark Jackson’s Competition Calendar to keep up to date with our competitions throughout the rest of the year.
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Christine works across several projects that engage and nuture the relationship with artists in the Jackson’s community. Christine has a degree in Fine Art - specialising in watercolour as her chosen medium, and has been with the Jackson's team since 2016.

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Comments
  • Angela Poole 14 June 2017 at 12:07 pm

    These four pictures are so lovely they have made me want to
    get out all my “stuff” and have a try at this pastel style.
    Brilliant work peoples. xxxxx Angy

  • John Humber 17 June 2017 at 9:52 am

    There is a looseness and freedom about the Clapham
    Common work that I like. It disappoints me that the Peoples’
    Choice in these competitions will almost certainly be
    something imitative of photographic representation.
    Probably because the works are paintings of photographs.

  • Noora 2 September 2017 at 4:14 am

    People’s choice is all about skills but no spirit. If people
    knew better they would’ve chosen ‘Spanish Palms’ by Richard
    Suckling