I'm very reliant on artists getting their website on to the front page of Google and actually announcing their good news on their website - and the general look and content of the site. However if I've got any of the links wrong do please let me know (see side column) and I'll change it straight away.
Artists also have the opportunity to email me an image of the artwork which has been selected and I'll update this blog post with the image - if I like it! This has worked very well in past posts about selected artists (eg I had LOTS sent to me for the Sunday Times Watercolour selected artists) - so for everybody else you might want to bookmark this post and come back and check from time to time
Ing Discerning Eye 2015 - The Exhibition
The Exhibition is on display at the Mall Galleries from 12-22 November 2015. It's open from 10am to 5pm and admission is free.
Eligible work had to be handmade. Drawings, paintings, sculptures and photographs were all admissable.
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| Mountain Village by Sue Wales Oil |
Ing Discerning Eye Exhibition 2014 - Selected Artists
Below the list of selevcted artists is split by (1) the number of works and (2) alphabetically. The link in an artist's name is to his or her website. Links to a commercial gallery page or the website of an art society are noted separately.
Some of the websites reminded me of the imperative to say what you do succinctly in your about page - in one line. Some did do that while with others, I read through several and was none the wiser when I got to the end.
Six works
- Henry Pim - (Art School) Ceramics Course leader at National College of Art & Design, Dublin
- Justine Lois Thorpe - a previous exhibitor
Five works
- Richard Baker - currently teaches painting and studio practice at Leeds College of Art alongside his practice
- Julia Russell - lives and works in South East London
- Dion Salvador Lloyd - Lives in Hove and winner of Best Open House in 2015
- Kitty Stirling
- Sue Wales - full time artist living and working in the city of Bath
Four works
- Day Bowman - previous exhibitor
- Chris Bushe - (gallery) a landscale painter and a member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW)
- Michele Griffiths - weird website - I'm not seeing any images
- Richard Heys - an abstract painter and sculptor
Three works
- Emma Finch (Gallery) - a ceramic artist of urban scenes
- Holly Frean - Over the last five years Frean has explored the possibilities of building up pictures from multiple images arranged in formal grid
- Tim Goffe - paints the urban/industrial environment
- Steph Goodger - I'm not enamoured with her approach to telling people who she is and what she does on her website
- Michael Greene - I think this one is the contemporary Scottish painter and printmaker
- Marguerite Horner - lots of words on her website but lacks a succinct summary
- Sally Lawson - works full time as a figurative painter
- Sara Lee Roberts - previous exhibitor in 1999 and 2010, Currently teaching drawing and painting at The Prince’s Drawing School
- Kate Newington - produces collage portraits; I love the sound track opening to her website
- Lesley Ninnes - (Society website) a member of St Ives Society of Artists
- Tom Palin - currently doing a MPhil / PhD (Painting). The Royal College of Art
- Bob Royston
- Michael Smee - (gallery website)
- Margaret Thompson - secretary of Islington Art Society (IAS)
- Philip Tyler - (gallery website)
- Richard Whadcock - methods and qualities of printmaking have filtered into his way of developing a painting
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| Bridleway by Richard Whadcock oil |
Two works
- Richard Brayshaw - photographs spaces and places in man-made outdoor environments both urban and rural
- Josephine Brett - (art society) inspired by nature, landscape, seascape and the elements
- Austin Cole - one of my favourite fine art printmakers
- Julie Cross - Chair of the Association of Animal Artists
- John Dobbs - recently elected as a member of the NEAC
- Mark Entwistle - has made a living as artist and portrait painter since he got into the BP Portrait Exhibition 2002
- Rose Eva - a sculptor who is fascinated by the abstract landscape of the human form
- Gethin Evans - Foundation Year Course Leader at the Royal Drawing School
- Anna Gardiner - "paints a narrative/non-narrative world of banality"
- Alison Hainey - an artist and practicing Landscape Architect
- David Hamilton - Professor Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Royal College of Art in 2000
- Julia Hamilton - Interview with Jackson’s Art Blog - Nov 2013
- Frances Hatch - Direct work in the landscape is central to her practice - she has a blog
- Kaori Homma -
- Peter Kelly - (art society website) member of RBA and NEAC
- Alison Lumb - (gallery website)
- Rebecca McLynn - drawn to particular types of isolated landscape
- Paul Newland - (art society website) member of the RWS
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| Reflected light across the valley by Paul Newland Oil on board |
- Andrew Pearson - aims for visual impact, energy and strong design
- Jenny Pockley - (gallery website) recipient of scholarships and six 'sell out' shows
- Ian Price - an RWA, Mall Galleries and Holburne portrait prize exhibited artist also paints the Portishead coastline
- Karen Purple - British abstarct landscape artist
- Robinson & McMahon - (gallery website) a collaboration between two artists who share a studio but not the same style of painting
- Jenny Shaw - retired from academia and now works almost full time as an artist
- Katie Sollohub - a Sussex based artist with an exuberant use of colour who this year taught the last workshop at Turner's House before it closed for renovation
- Mark Surridge - contemporary abstract artist based in Cornwall
- Naoko Takata - lives in Somerset
- Delia Tournay-Godfrey - lots of art but no text or details
- Eithne Twomey - Artist working in paint, print, drawing and glass; a member of South London Women Artists
- Richard Twose - second prizewinner in the bp portrait 2014 - and became a full time artist as a result - see my video interview with him. Currently Artist in Residence at the Royal College of Art (autumn 2015)
- Sally Tyrie - makes drawings and prints, primarily using multilayered printmaking techniques and mixed media
- Ann Marie Whaley - American living in London, previously exhibited in ING in 2008 and 2013
- Roy Willingham (Gallery profile page) - member of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers
- Robbie Wraith RP - Not everybody gets to display a letter from the Prince of Wales (one of his clients) on their bio page. He's had thirty three one-man exhibitions in Britain, Europe, China and the USA. Won the Discerning Eye Founder's Purchase Prize in 2009. Selector in 2010 (see REVIEW: The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition 2010)
Robert Wraith is a remarkable draughtsmanHRH The Prince of Wales
One work
- Nicholas Archer - very irritating website - it keeps moving!
- Kevin Badni - "Specialises in using high end technology to create visually engaging art and designs."
- Daryl Balcomb
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| David Brayne demonstrating how he paints with pigment and acrylic gels at an RWS exhibition at the Bankside Gallery in 2007 |
- David Brayne - a member of the Royal Watercolour Society who paints directly using pigments (see him at work and read about how he works in my 2007 blog post about Royal Watercolour Society - artists and their working methods)
- David Caldwell - exhibited with the ING DE in 2014 and has a good track record of being selected for competitive open entry exhibitions
- Alison Conlon
- Emma Copley - born in Ireland, Studied in USA (at Rhode Island School of Design) and lives and works in Cambridge. Currently a Contestant in the Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year
- Claire Coskie - paints the sea and skyscapes found along the Cornish coastline
- Martin Cox - photographer born in UK, lives in Los Angeles
- Nigel Cox - an Irish figurative artist with a Knowledge Graph box on Google
- Michael Cull (gallery site)
- Serena Curmi - works as a works as a full time painter in Bristol
- Catherine Davison - An impressive painter of the urban landscapes of Edinburgh- see my 2014 blog post Catherine Davison wins £15,000 Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2014
- Joan Doerr - born in Glasgow, but now lives and works in Edinburgh creating abstract paintings based on stimulati from her environment. Selected for ING DE in 2013 and 2014. Has a catalogue of her work from a recent exhibition on Issuu
- Thomas Doran - pictures mostly tend to be small, around postcard size in oil on wood panel. Previously selected for Lynn Painter-Stainer and Threadneedle.
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| M4 by Thomas Doran Oil on Wood |
- David Douglas - lives and works in Northamptonshire and is a part time tutor.
- Miranda Ellis - previous exhibited in the Discerning Eye in 1991, 1992 and 2002
- Janna Fowler
- Paul Fowler - lives in Kent and works from a studio close to the coast and the Swale estuary, which has inspired much of his recent landscape work
- Victor Ghose - This is an interesting one - could this possibly be a photo by a five year old? Google the name and see what you think. I just checked the call for entries and can't find a minimum age for artists entering the competition.
- Tom Harrison - I'm hoping it's the Marine and not the one of Facebook!
- Emma Haworth - won prizes in exhibitions for the Royal Watercolour Society, the Lynn Painter-Stainer and the Sunday Times Watercolour competitions. (See Emma Haworth wins Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2010 and Review: RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2015)
- Mark Hedger - lives and works in Cornwall
- Joseph Hillier - Sculptor, Artist, Maker, Project manager, Digital designer, Lecturer / academic
- Peter Holt - mainly focuses on portraiture and figurative paintings
- Chiho Iwase - born in Japan, currently lives and works in London, is particularly interested in the popularity of cuteness in Japan and produces interesting sculptures
- Michael Johnson - a couple of candidates for this entry
- Agnes Johnstone
- Peter Jones - unclear which one
- Catherine Knight - selected for ING DE 2014
- Charlotte Knox - likes painting food. This is her blog
- John Larkin
- Bronwen Malcolm - selected for ING DE 2003 and 2012
- Danny Markey (gallery website)
- Graham Martin - Scottish artist who currently currently lives and works in East London
- Ray Millar Rankine
- Bridget Moore - member of RWS, RBA and NEAC
- Barbara Mullarney - works mainly in oils
- Elizabeth Nast - a website with the smallest thumbnails I've seen in quite a while
- Arthur Neal (gallery website)
- Stephen Palmer - a painter based in South East London; has shown work in the last 4 Discerning Eye exhibitions
- Lisa Pettibone - a glass artist from California who is based in Surrey
- Rosey Prince - prints and works on paper
- Elizabeth Rayney (artist network) - paints in egg tempera
- William Redman
- Edward Robinson (gallery website)
- Wendy Saunders - makes paintings of facial expressions
- Christopher Sayers
- Kirsten Scheuerl - fieldsports photographer
- David Scott Moore - landscape painter exhibiting "Sussex Downs Sunset XXV"
- Carolyn Scott - a photographer
- Daniel Sequeira
- Janey Sharratt - a painter who focuses on spacial relationships
- Wan Sheung Wah
- Linda Smith - always paints men
- Sarah Spackman - a contemporary still life painter
- Dee Stanford
- Alicia Stroud - particularly interested in allegory and artifacts and how they can relate with the inner world of the viewer
- Lincoln Taber - a painter living and working in East Sussex
- Susan Taylor - I think there's more than one of them....
- Shelly Tregoning
- Quintus Veii
- Eugenie Vronskaya - Russian born artist currently living and working in The Highlands of Scotland
- Kate Walters - her works in watercolour and oil are concerned with the interaction of the animal, plant, dream and human worlds
- Caroline Waterlow - an artist who works within the disciplines of drawing, collage and sculpture
- Nell Weatherley - creates embroidered watercolours
- Justin Weeks
- Graeme Wilcox - based in Glasgow
- Bruce Williams - I think there's two of them....
- S. Z. Wimperis - besides being a very productive artist well known to art bloggers, Sarah also works at the Beside the Wave Gallery in Falmouth
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| It's a tiny moleskine watercolour sketchbook with 29 double pages of roads, mainly the A39 and the M5. It's housed in an opening frame allowing you to change the displayed image. By Sarah Wimperis |
Note for Selected Artists
If you want me to say something about you, try to have:
- a website
- a succinct summary of your artistic practice - in no more than two lines
Good to see this list and selected artworks, thank you. Note to self, must update entry on St Ives Society of Artists website! Delighted to have had three works accepted this year and am waiting, like everyone else I'm sure, to know who has selected what. Best wishes, Lesley N
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