Browsing Tag figurative painting
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DrawingKayoon Anderson is a figurative painter and Semi-finalist in the Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year. Here she contemplates the importance of her sketchbook practice as a ...
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Artist Interviews
It’s hard to pin down James Mortimer’s thought provoking artworks. We interviewed the artist to find out more about his inspirations and working methods. Having graduated from Bath ...
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Artist Interviews
Alicia France, who won the Portrait/Figure Category Award in the Jackson’s Open Painting Prize 2018, is a British artist living and working in Newcastle upon Tyne. She explores ...
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Artist Interviews
Zosia Olenska won the Jackson’s Art Supplies ‘Atmospheric Acrylics’ competition with ‘July’, a truly exquisite painting of a midsummer somersault. The painting has a distinctly 1920s feel about ...
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Artist Interviews
Michael Restrick is the painter of ‘North Star’, a powerful entry into this year’s Jackson’s Open Painting Prize. The acrylic painting comprises a sophisticated arrangement of shapes: circles, ...
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Artist Interviews
Figurative Painting from imagination can be both liberating and terrifying. The common need to achieve ‘a likeness’ goes out of the window and is replaced with a desire to tell ...
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Artist Interviews
Last October Anth Knight won the People’s Choice Award in our ‘October Oils’ competition for his painting ‘Rachael’s Cons’. The painting demonstrated Knight’s ability to paint the ripples of ...
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Features & Editorials
From Naïve Modernism at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester to High-Medieval japery at the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge, here is Jackson’s definitive list of the ten shows not to ...
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Artist Interviews
Bradley Wood’s paintings are luscious and seductive. They caught my attention immediately as I perused the list of exhibitors for this year’s Battersea Affordable Art Fair this weekend, ...
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Artist Interviews
Woman into Fox Oil on Canvas 100 x 80 cm Julia Hamilton cycles up to our shop in Farleigh Place regularly to buy her paints, and takes them ...
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Artist Interviews
Bobbie Russon’s paintings are charged with the unspoken curiosities of the young girls that they often depict – girls on the brink of becoming adults, appearing sweet and ...
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Features & Editorials
Welcome to part 4 in my series of 6 posts about this year’s Threadneedle Prize for Figurative Painting and Sculpture. The grand prize of £30,000 has already been ...
