Browsing Tag JOPP2017
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Artist InterviewsIn 2017 Mark Roscoe won the Jackson’s Open Painting Prize with his portrait ‘Eniola Sokalu’ painted in oils. With a painstaking approach to painting the surface textures of ...
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Artist Interviews
Giovanni Balzarani was awarded the Watercolour category prize by Jean Haines during this year’s Jackson’s Open Painting Prize. ‘Welcome to my Personal Bar’ is a highly detailed depiction ...
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Artist Interviews
Simon Hennessey’s acrylic paintings play games with our perceptions. By combining abstracted gestural marks with hyperreal depictions of human features, he embraces the extremes of what a painting ...
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Artist Interviews
Angela Bell paints found photographs, primarily portraits, to explore the beauty of their surface as well as ponder the thoughts and feelings of the unknown subjects. Her painting ...
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Features & Editorials
This year Graham Crowley won second prize in the Jackson’s Open Painting Prize for his work ‘Grey Drift 3’. In this blog post I take a closer look ...
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Artist Interviews
John Maclean’s painting ‘Rock Formation at Grisslehamn’ was included in this year’s Jackson’s Open Painting Prize longlist. It stood out to me as a striking landscape painting rendered in ...
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Artist Interviews
Mark Roscoe’s intriguing portrait of Eniola Sokalu was selected earlier this year as the winning artwork for Jackson’s Open Painting Prize. One of our expert panel of judges ...
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Artist Interviews
Joshua Flint’s painting ‘The Guest’ was shortlisted for this year’s Jackson’s Open Painting Prize. The painting depicts a suited man sat with his cane while a mountain seems to ...
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Artist Interviews
A happy story from 2017’s Jackson’s Open Painting Prize is Anna Jefferson’s, who after a 15 year break from painting had her painting ‘Child and Cat’ recognised in the Jackson’s ...
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Artist Interviews
Leslie Watts is the painter behind ‘Dora Steps Out’, a very close runner up in this year’s Jackson’s Open Painting Prize. Dora happily strolls with her son down ...
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Artist InterviewsTeri Anne Scoble’s transition from dancer to painter has been a great success, seeing the artist exhibit twice in the BP Portrait Award as well as feature in ...
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Artist Interviews
Since graduating from a Fine Art degree at Nottingham University just 4 years ago, Margie Andrew- Reichelt has proved herself to be a fascinating and innovative watercolourist and ...
