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- Paintings or drawings (2D artworks)
- All ages, abilities, and stages of career
- Open to artists worldwide
- £6 per artwork
- Enter up to 5 artworks

'DRIED FLOWERS 2', ROLAND CORBIN
Jackson’s Painting Prize has steadily grown in size and reputation since it started in 2016, last year receiving nearly 9000 entries from 107 countries, with the shortlist gaining tens of thousands of views online with huge acclaim.
This year, the winners will be exhibiting at two venues. Our first stop will see us return to Affordable Art Fair Hampstead, followed by a summer exhibition at Bankside Gallery next to Tate Modern.
With an impressive expert judging panel, two London exhibitions, a first prize of £6000 + £1000 Jackson’s art materials, plus 15 other awards, we’re excited for our biggest year yet!

'THINKING', KI YOONG
PRIZES
PRIZES
JACKSON’S PAINTING PRIZE – £6000 + £1000 JACKSON’S ART MATERIALS
AMATEUR ARTIST AWARD – £1000 + £500 JACKSON’S ART MATERIALS
STUDENT AWARD – £1000 + £500 JACKSON’S ART MATERIALS
PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD – £1000 + £500 JACKSON’S ART MATERIALS
MATERIAL AWARDS (Oil, Acrylic, Watercolour, Dry Materials) –
£500 JACKSON’S ART MATERIALS EACH
SUBJECT CATEGORY AWARDS (Portrait/Figure, Land/city/seascape,
Non-representational, Animal, Still Life, Botanical, Scenes of Everyday Life, Mind’s Eye) – £500 JACKSON’S ART MATERIALS EACH
JUDGES
It’s our honour to be hosting an impressive line up of judges on this year’s Expert Panel. The panel consists of practising artists, critics, writers, and gallerists who we feel will each bring their own unique perspective on the entries, and cultivate a varied selection of winners.
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KAYOON ANDERSON
Artist
https://kayoon.co.uk/Kayoon was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1997. She studied architecture at the University of Cambridge and painting in Siena before specialising in portraiture at Heatherley School of Art. Kayoon has exhibited in Cambridge, London, Siena and Florence and has painted notable sitters such as actor Ncuti Gatwa, author Bernardine Evaristo and BBC reporter Clive Myrie. She currently works as a figurative painter in London.


HUGO BARCLAY
Director of the Affordable Art Fair
https://www.hugobarclay.com/With a decade of experience at the cross section of art, technology and commerce, Hugo is interested in the social commentary championing global culture and the access to art. Currently Art fair director of the Affordable Art Fair, he also founded ArtThou, a Visual Arts platform promoting ultra contemporary artists


MARTIN GAYFORD
Critic and Author
https://www.martingayford.co.uk/Martin Gayford was art critic of the Spectator 1994-2002 and subsequently of the Sunday Telegraph before becoming chief art critic for Bloomberg News until 2013. Since then, he has authored titles such as ‘Spring Cannot be Cancelled’, co-authored with David Hockney, and ‘Man with a Blue Scarf’, about his experience posing for Lucian Freud.


LORENA LEVI
Artist
https://www.lorenaleviart.net/Lorena Levi is a narrative portraiture painter. Her practice is research based where she uses the internet, speaking to to strangers on chatroom sites and listening to podcasts with real people to gain stories for paintings. Lorena has been collaging found images with her own to create compositions which display an imagined narrative, telling a story in a snapshot.


SAHARA LONGE
Artist
https://www.saharalonge.com/Sahara Longe is a British artist who lives and works in London, UK. Vibrantly coloured and often large in scale, Longe’s portraits depict the mysteries of human psychology and social interactions. Figures in rich planes of scarlet, green and black colour stare back at the viewer with unreadable expressions, often deliberately flattened and soft-edged. Her work draws on the lost methods of Old Master painting as well as the emotional ambiguity and high colour of German Expressionism.


ELLIE PENNICK
Director and Founder of Guts Gallery
https://gutsgallery.co.uk/Director and Founder of Guts Gallery, Ellie Pennick is one of the youngest gallerists navigating the art world today. As a working-class, queer Northerner with no art background, Pennick’s footing in the art world started with her frustrations at the lack of meaningful opportunities for people like her. After being unable to accept a place at a renowned institution due to her financial status, Pennick began to question the wider, social austerity within the arts. She launched Guts to create a fair art-business model (which has “far more importance to [her] than a piece of paper with a Masters grade on it”) and to champion emerging artists. She’s made it her mission to help artists demand the respect – and ownership – they deserve.


AFFORDABLE ART FAIR
Founded in 1999, Affordable Art Fair welcomes over 185,000 art enthusiasts to their fairs globally, showcasing a mix of local, national, and international galleries with a variety of affordable artworks by established and emerging artists. We are thrilled to return this year, for the fourth time.
BANKSIDE GALLERY
This year, we’re excited to host a summer exhibition at Bankside Gallery, next to Tate Modern, home to the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers.