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RSMA exhibition in the Main Gallery |
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View of the exhibition in the Threadneedle Space |
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RSMA Annual Exhibition - Main Gallery |
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Variations of a marine theme - in the Main Gallery |
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RSMA Annual Exhibition |
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RSMA Annual Exhibition - another corner of the Threadneedle Space |
Prizewinners
The Charles Pears Award
This award commemorates the first elected President of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. You can read a blog post by Tony Williams - who won the £500 Charles Pears Award - on the Mall Galleries website.![]() |
Ship with Moon (£1,595) by Tony Williams oil Winner of The Charles Pears Award |
The painting “Ship with Moon” has come from a series of romantic/nostalgia studies following bright summer moonrises and a looking back to the days when I lived in south London as a boy and art student cycling up to the river Thames a few miles away with my old camera. It is a subject that allows me to indulge in my love of the constructivists, whilst mellowed by a romantic element.
The Artist Magazine Award
Jamel Akib will be interviewed for a feature in The Artist Magazine after winning their award. The composition and dynamic diagonals within it make you feel as if you're sailing in the boat with the crew.![]() |
Pull 2 (£2,200) by Jamel Akib oil Winner of The Artist Magazine Award |
The Classic Boat Prize
Sheena Bevis-White - from the open entry - won this prize with her painting of Juno and will have her painting featured in Classic Boat.![]() |
Juno by Sheena Bevis-White |
The RK Burt Canson Paper Award
This is for works on paper and was won by Margaret Heath RSMA. Her traditional watercolour has some wonderful qualities of light.![]() |
Winter Sunrise, Lymington Quay (£795 - sold) by Margaret Heath RSMA watercolour Winner of the R K Burt Canson Paper Prize |
The Derek Gardner 'Sea and Sky' Award
James Williams focused on paintings of waves and that sometimes indeterminate horixzon line between sea and sky.![]() |
Two paintings by James Williams the top one - 'Into the Light' - won the The Derek Gardner 'Sea and Sky' Award |
The Russell and Chapple Canvas Prize
John Lines RSMA RBSA won this prize with a painting of a very large ship.![]() |
Brisk Day Departure (£2,150) by John Lines oil Winner of the Russell and Chapple Canvas Prize |
The Sea Pictures Gallery award
David Nixon painted a subject which I guess would most watercolour artists think twice.![]() |
Highrise (£1,000) by David Nixon Watercolour Winner of the Sea Pictures Gallery Award |
The Winsor & Newton Oil Prize
Bruce Williams won Winsor & Newton products to the value of £250.![]() |
Breakwater and Neptune (£3,000) by Bruce Williams oil Winner of the Winsor & Newton Oil Prize |
Other works I liked
I don't normally think of monochrome as being associated with Marine Art but I saw four works which I thought worth highlighting.
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(Left) Next-the-Oceans VII (Aquatint) by Marianne Ferm (top right) Walking the Pier (solar plate etching) by Despina Symeou (bottom right) Beached (aquatint) by Stephen Asquith |
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Wells next the Sea (edition of 10) by Simon Dodd ARBSAlinocut £380 |
One of the things I noticed is that paintings including figures were selling very well.
Particularly if they were children on a beach AND were well drawn/painted. There's a lot of famous painters who have painted children on a beach - with Singer Sargent and Sorolla being two of the more well known. This is an exhibition which provides an opportunity for the artist who likes painting figures - they just need to find a marine context!
Events and workshops
There's a range of events and workshops during the exhibition. Some are free and some have a fee for attendance.
Yesterday afternoon Tim Hall gave a well attended demonstration of painting a marine scene in oils
2.00 – 4.30pm. We discussed my review of his painting which won the Charles Pears Award in 2014.
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Oil painting demonstration by Tim Hall |
Tomorrow Geoff Hunt PPRSMA is doing a workshop on drawing ships and boats
Next week there are more demonstrations by members:
- Wednesday 21st October David Allen RSMA (pastel) 2.00 – 4.30pm - you can see more of his work here
- Wednesday 21st October Gareth Brown ARSMA (oil) 2.00 – 4.30pm
- Thursday 22nd October Martin Swan RSMA (oil) 11.00am – 3.00pm
- Saturday 24th October David Howell PPRSMA (watercolour) from 12.00 noon
Plus there's a Vice President's Tour at 11am on the 21st October . On Wednesday evening there's a maritime themed evening of stories from artists about commissions undertaken
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