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<\/a><\/p>\n1st Prize – Winner of\u00a0\u00a33000<\/h5>\n‘Gorge’ by Max Naylor<\/h5>\n
One of a series of paintings made in response to walking through the landscape using a combination of memory and imagination.<\/p>\n
Medium: Ink on Paper<\/p>\n
Size:\u00a0660 x 1016mm<\/p>\n
Year created: 2016<\/p>\n
Website:\u00a0www.maxnaylor.com<\/a><\/p>\n The movement in the cities is constant, graffities, publicity signs, neon lights, people transportation below and beneath the pavement, patterns…their repetition, accumulation, superposition, generates visual saturation in different scales. The velocity in which we move everyday generates a memory of several images that we decodify according to our own experience of urban life. In my paintings I am interested on expressing my own chaotic sensation of the metropolis.<\/p>\n Medium: Acrylic on canvas<\/p>\n Size: 78″ x 78″<\/p>\n Year\u00a0created: 2015<\/p>\n Blog:\u00a0Paulanahmod.blogspot.com.ar<\/a><\/p>\n Facebook: Paula Nahmod Arte<\/a><\/p>\n During last year I became fascinated with the construction of the new higher education college round the corner from where I live. I made hundreds of drawings, filling sketchbooks with images of the cranes and people moving across the site. Working from these drawings back in my studio I think this painting tells the story of the construction. Acrylic was the perfect medium to use and by applying the paint in unconventional ways I think this painting captures the colours and textures of the place.<\/p>\n Medium: Acrylic on canvas<\/p>\n Size: 82cm x 43cm<\/p>\n Year created: 2016<\/p>\n Website:\u00a0www.caprintmaker.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n Facebook: CAFineart<\/a><\/p>\n We thought to also share with you the six entries which were runners-up. Here you can really see the breadth and diversity of the entries we received. Although they weren’t scored quite as highly as the winning\u00a0entries\u00a0by the judges and just missed out, the standard throughout the competition has been so high that we felt they earned a mention!\u00a0There will also be a series of interviews and articles with some of the artists on our blog throughout the next few months.<\/p>\n ‘Pamela Newel Sellers’ by Leslie Watts<\/p>\n Portrait painting<\/p>\n Medium:\u00a0Egg tempera on panel<\/p>\n Size: 30 x 30cm<\/p>\n Year created: 2013<\/p>\n Website:\u00a0http:\/\/www.lesliewatts.ca\/<\/a><\/p>\n Twitter: @lesliewattsart<\/a><\/p>\n ‘Yellow Caravan’ by Paul Crook<\/p>\n This painting explores the geometrical shapes and structures that can be found within the fragments of our shared environments. The \u2018yellow caravan\u2019 belongs to a series of paintings that explore the idea of \u2018escape architecture\u2019. These temporary places resonate with the layered personal narratives of families and communities that have inhabited these places during our more recent cultural and social histories. The use of saturated vivid colour is employed to elevate these normally bland, overlooked and unpopulated locations to something that is both seductive and celebrated. These places offered a promising, beautiful and perfect future; a place for shelter and happiness. My paintings attempt to explore what remains of this once youthful and optimistic new world.<\/p>\n Medium:\u00a0Acrylic on Canvas<\/p>\n Size:\u00a0125 x 95cm<\/p>\n Year created: 2015<\/p>\n Website:\u00a0www.paulcrook.kk5.org<\/a><\/p>\n Twitter: @pfcrook<\/a><\/p>\n ‘Fiona’ by Timothy Patrick<\/p>\n Portrait of the artist’s former landlady in Clapham, a painter in her own time also.<\/p>\n Medium:\u00a0Charcoal on Paper<\/p>\n Size:\u00a058x77cm<\/p>\n Year created:\u00a02015<\/p>\n Website:\u00a0www.timpatrick.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n ‘House (2)’ by Jarik Jongman<\/p>\n Exploring a fascination with man-made structures and interiors,my earlier Medium:\u00a0oil on canvas<\/p>\n Size:\u00a060 x 70 cm<\/p>\n Year created: 2015<\/p>\n Website:\u00a0www.jarikjongman.nl<\/a><\/p>\n ‘We Aint All Middle Class Bohemians’ by Laura Rosser<\/p>\n A woodcut based on a film still from Port Elliot Literature Festival in St.Germans in Cornwall. This is from a body of engaging work using typewriters.<\/p>\n On the river bank in the image are two people sitting at one of my typewriters and they are typing messages that went straight to a twitter feed. Merging the digital and traditional are key element of my practice.<\/p>\n The title is one of the messages typed on the typewriter during the festival.<\/p>\n Medium:\u00a0woodcut<\/p>\n Size:\u00a0120h x 220 w cm<\/p>\n Year created: 2015<\/p>\n Website:\u00a0Laurarosser.com<\/a><\/p>\n ‘Caraili’ by Orlanda Broom<\/p>\n My paintings are lush and colourful landscapes that represent a fantastical, re-imagined place. The surface joyousness is tempered by an uneasy sense of abandonment generated through the succubus-like nature of plants and the highly saturated almost toxic colour.<\/p>\n Medium:\u00a0Acrylic, resin and varnish on canvas<\/p>\n Size: 120cm diameter<\/p>\n Year created: 2015<\/p>\n Website:\u00a0http:\/\/orlandabroomartist.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n Facebook: Orlanda Broom<\/a><\/p>\n Twitter: @orlandabroom<\/a><\/p>\n The winner of Jackson’s Amateur Prize and \u00a3600 worth of Jackson’s Gift Vouchers has been decided by a public vote. Over 11,100 votes were cast on our Facebook voting tab and it was decided that ‘Inscriptions of the absence’ by Gabriela Lobato Ramos was the winner!<\/p>\n In terms of the process of voting, we do fully appreciate and understand some of the drawbacks of having a voting competition on social media. Just because an artwork hasn’t received the most votes does not mean it isn’t a great artwork. We do also understand that not everyone uses social media, however in order to have a fair voting system (as the login system stops people casting multiple votes for the same entry) this was the only way we could see to do it fairly.<\/p>\n As this is the first competition of this scale that we have undertaken, we have learnt so much and will take that experience forward with us to next year’s competition.<\/p>\n Reconstrucci\u00f3n de mi a trav\u00e9s de los recuerdos de las personas que ya no est\u00e1n presentes pero permanecen en las marcas que dejaron en mi. Medium:\u00a0Painting and photography<\/p>\n Size:\u00a060 x 40 cm<\/p>\n Year created: 2014<\/p>\n We thought to also share with you the amazing runners-up in our Amateur Prize. Although they narrowly missed out in claiming the top spot, their work has been shared and seen by thousands. There will also be a series of interviews and articles with some of the artists on our blog throughout the next few months.<\/p>\n ‘The Struggle’ by Jeanne Warren<\/p>\n Two years ago, my world fell apart. I lost my home, my neighbours, my belongings during the recession due to a failed business. I was put into a homeless shelter and had to stay there for seven months. It was a very scary and lonely place and I hardly ever came out of my room. There was a man who stayed in the room above me, and although I saw him now and then, I never spoke to him. One day we somehow started talking and I discovered he was also an artist as well as a musician. I showed him the painting I was working on at the moment (I refused to stop painting, kept my art supplies and worked in my tiny room whenever I could) and he was very supportive. It dawned on me suddenly that I would love to paint him…he had such expressive eyes…and I asked him if I could have a photo session with him. One sunny morning we “seized the moment” and proceeded to a little alley in the town we were staying in. Alas, in the alley were these gates….just like the ones that were at the shelter….and the rest is history. This painting was by far the most difficult one I have ever painted. I wept, had nightmares, and struggled to finish it for months. But when I did, it was as if the horror of it all was somehow easier to cope with. I would like to believe my man was and is every homeless person, wishing for something to be hopeful for, but at the same time, feeling trapped and full of despair.<\/p>\n Medium:\u00a0Acrylic on Board<\/p>\n Size:\u00a067 x 47 cm<\/p>\n Year created: 2015<\/p>\n ‘Untitled’ by Alison Tubritt<\/p>\n Part of final year project in BA Fine Art. Medium:\u00a0White and black pencil on black paper mounted onto foam board.<\/p>\n Size: A4<\/p>\n Year created: 2016<\/p>\n Facebook: ArtByAlison<\/a><\/p>\n ‘Swimming Free’ by Marion Burton<\/p>\n A drawing of a turtle.<\/p>\n Medium:\u00a0Coloured pencils<\/p>\n Size: A4<\/p>\n Year created: 2016<\/p>\n Facebook:\u00a0ChemobrainArt<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\n2nd Prize – Winner of \u00a3700 worth of Jackson’s Art Gift Vouchers<\/h5>\n
‘A-diccion’ by\u00a0Paula\u00a0Nahmod<\/h5>\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\n3rd Prize – Winner of \u00a3700 worth of Jackson’s Art Gift Vouchers<\/h5>\n
‘Wiltshire Cul-De-Sac’ by Carole Tonge<\/h5>\n
\nRunners-up<\/h5>\n
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\npaintings of motel rooms or abandoned factories allude to the transience of
\nexistence and could be viewed as an allegory of the temporary dwelling
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\nCurrently, I am focusing on modernist architecture. These buildings and
\nvillas whose significance has been expanded, from functionality into an
\niconic and symbolic status, I portray as sublime, transcendental structures,
\nboth coveted and threatened by inscrutable and ominous forces.<\/p>\n
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\nWinner of Jackson’s Amateur Prize!<\/h5>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nWinner of Jackson’s Amateur Prize, \u00a3600 worth of Jackson’s Gift Vouchers<\/h5>\n
‘Inscripciones de la ausencia \/ Inscriptions of the absence’ by\u00a0Gabriela\u00a0Lobato Ramos<\/h5>\n
\nMarcas que se han impregnado tan profundamente que han llegado a formar parte de mis huellas dactilares; imposibles de disolver.
\nProyecto que consiste en marcar partes de mi cuerpo con pintura para evidenciar aquellas huellas y luego fotografiarlas. Buscando con este gesto reconocerlas, aceptarlas y seguir.
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\nReconstruction of me through the memories of people who are no longer present but remain in the marks left in me.
\nBrands that have permeated so deeply that have become part of my fingerprints; impossible to dissolve.
\nProject that consists in mark parts of my body with paint to show those track and then photograph them. Looking with this gesture to recognize, accept and go ahead<\/p>\n
\nRunners-up<\/h5>\n
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\nAlthough there is a focus on the anatomical features of a horse within the work, the work is more about the traditional skill of drawing and trying to create and adapt the work into the contemporary art world. There is a particular focus on the technical execution within the piece that demands attention.<\/p>\n
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