BP Portrait Award 2010: List of Exhibitors and Brian Sewell

You can see all the individual works in the BP Portrait Award 2010 on the National Portrait Gallery website.  Below you will also find a list of the names of the exhibitors in the BP Portrait Award 2010 plus where they come from and links to their websites if you want to see what other work they have produced.   The websites I rate are highlighted.

Where there is no website, the link is to the portrait in the exhibition.

Finding the links became an increasingly fascinating exercise as I began to find out just how many of those exhibiting are not dedicated portrait painters.  Plus I found fewer with the standard of website that I'm finding when doing this exercise for other major prizes.  Which I find surprising - but it gave me pause for thought when I read Brian Sewell's article - see end.

Then there's the artist who's produced a painting which I now need to go back and look at again, as I'm now wondering just exactly how it was produced (Shades of the AWS 2008!)

LIST OF EXHIBITORS

• Mary Jane Ansell Brighton, East Sussex, England
• Annalisa Avancini Trento, Italy
• Robin Bagnall Stroud, Gloucestershire, England
• Paul Beel Reggello, Italy - won BP Travel Award
• Paul Benney Woodbridge, Suffolk, England - recommended
• Oscar Burnett London, England
• Jason Butler Grouville, Jersey- recommended - also selected for Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition 2010
• Darren Coffield London, England
• Alan Coulson London, England

 Ciara by Alan Coulson

• Richard Cross Clitheroe, Lancashire, England
• Tom Dewhurst Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales
• David Dipré Forest Hill, London, England.
• Anna Dougherty Bath, Somerset, England
• Shaun Downey Oshawa, Ontario, Canada plus his blog
• David Eichenberg Toledo, Lucas, USA - won third prize
• Wendy Elia Westcliff On Sea, Essex, England (requires flash to view work)
• Daniel Enkaoua Barcelona, Spain
• Miriam Escofet London, England
• Nathan Ford Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, England recommended
• Maryam Foroozanfar London, England
• Michael Gaskell Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England 2nd prizewinner (3 times)
• Eliot Haigh London, England
• Bruce Hanke Norfolk, USA
• Alexander Hanna London, England
• Jason Harper Canterbury, Kent, England
• Wim Heldens Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Kaye Hodges Cranbrook, Kent, England
• Mark Jameson Darlington, County Durham, England
• Lyndsey Jameson Darlington, County Durham, England
• Diarmuid Kelley London, England
• Rosy Lamb Paris, France
• Peter Layzell Lancaster, Lancashire, England
• Raoul Martinez London, England
• Helen Masacz London, England
• Elizabeth McDonald Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland (and Texas, USA) Young Artist winner
• George Melling Preston, Lancashire, England
• Miguel Ãngel Moya Valencia, Spain
• Carlos Muro Aguado Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain
• David Nightingale Charlton, Wiltshire, England
• Tony Noble Batley, West Yorkshire, England
• Benjamin Ogbebor London, England
• Tim Okamura Brooklyn, New York, USA (flash site) recommended

 ideath by Michel Ozibko

• Michal Ozibko Prague, Czech Republic
• Thea Penna London, England
• Nicola Philipps London, England
• Philip Renforth Ashington, Northumberland, England
• Rafael Rodriguez Queretaro, Mexico
• Ilaria Rosselli del Turco London, England - recommended Ilaria's portrait has been featured in a number of different ways on the marketing material for the exhibition

 Geneva by Ilaria Rosselli del Turco

• Giampaolo Russo Zurich, Switzerland
• Fred Schley Rosmalen, The Netherlands
• Nathalie Scott Beauvillain Guildford, Surrey, England
• Brian Shields Brighton, East Sussex, England
• Benjamin Sullivan Oxford, Oxfordshire, England recommended
• Edward Sutcliffe London, England
• Daphne Todd Mayfield, East Sussex, England BP Portrait Award Winner 2010
• Shany Van Den Berg Stellenbosch , South Africa
• Henry Ward London, England
• Antony Williams Chertsey, Surrey, England recommended

Plus this is Brian Sewell's review of the BP Portrait Award - Time for a shake-up of the Portrait Gallery's annual award

Brian is always worth a read, if only for the quality of the vitriol (Brian is no longer a fan of the BP Portrait Award) and I think he may just have surpassed himself this year.   For the record, I think some of the things he says are spot on.  See if you can work out which those might be.