Series 7 of Landscape Artist of the Year (2022) will be broadcast on Sky Arts starting this Wednesday 12th January 2022
- on Sky Arts on Freeview (Channel 11) at 8pm
- or live streamed via Now
This post is for those who want to
- know what the LOCATIONS were when they filmed last summer (2021)
- think about entering to paint this summer (2022) to view next year (2023)
- recap on some of the learning points from previous series
- 9 episodes in total (6 Heats + semi-final + Final + Commission)
- the same 3 Judges plus the same 2 presenters
- 6 locations for the heats
- 6 or 8 artists in the Pods in each heat - depending on whether they are reverting to the norm or sticking with the 6 they had in 2020 re. the constraints they were operating under
- 4 hours total to paint the location the artists are given - from the pod they are assigned (unless you rebel as some have done in the past - and turn round / wander off / etc!)
- Wildcard artists at each location - with numbers being tailored to the space available
- the winner gets a £10,000 commission to paint a specific location
- coverage via their social media -
- Instagram (excellent - but I suggest you also follow Kathleen Soriano, Kate Bryan and Danielle Graham (one of the Executive Producers). Note: Tai Shan Schierenberg has 3.6k followers on Instagram and has yet to post!
- Twitter (not very good) i.e. LOCATIONS
In terms of locations - unlike in the summer of 2020, the location
filming went further afield in the summer of 2021!
I haven't found any reference to Heat Locations in print yet - but social
media has been MUCH more revealing! I've found various posts by "people who
were there" - and it's clear the presenters and judges and the production
team have all been to the following for the Heats - plus I found a listing of all the locations and dates! :)
So this is it
- 12 January 2022: the Eden Project in Cornwall - the global garden in a former clay quarry - where the artists are tasked with the challenge of painting the Eden Biomes!
- 19 January 2022: the grounds of Compton Verney in Warwickshire (which I wrote about last week - see EXHIBITION: Portrait Artist of the Year (2013 - 2021)
- 26 January 2022: Whitstable - where they did the Celebrity Landscape Artist of the Year - see
Review: Celebrity Landscape Artist of the Year 2021 - but it looks as if they had a much sunnier day for the LAOTY episode - 2 February 2022: back to the Eden Project Gardens
- 9 February 2022: Compton Verney House
so ONLY five Heats - and not six?? Maybe they didn't get enough decent entries?
Then......
- 16th February 2022: Forth Bridge - the Semi Final will involve "painting the Forth Bridge" - literally! See Forth Bridge takes centre stage for filming of SKY Arts TV show 'Landscape Artist of the Year' | Dunfermline Press where the weather is looking a bit murky!
- 3rd February 2022: the Final will be at Levens Hall - thank you Kathleen Soriano! This is located south of Kendal in Cumbria - at the gateway to the Lake District National Park. Looks like they had a fabulous sunny day in the gardens with the topiary.....
- 2nd March 2022: Winners Film - based around a ride on a narrow boat along part of the Rochdale Canal - which runs for 33 miles between Manchester and Sowerby Bridge in West Yorkshire, UK.
Fancy being part of the show next year?
However they very often extend it! (It depends on how many quality applications they receive)
Some things to think about
- Are you used to painting plein air?
- Can you cope with carrying on as the the weather changes - for better or worse? They don't stop for anything.....
- Can you cope with the light changing as the time passes or the weather changes?
- Have you ever painted a landscape - beginning to end - in four hours?
- Have you ever painted landscapes with people watching / filming / asking questions?
- What makes your landscape art different and interesting and something they might want to see more of?
- Will you be available for the filming - planned to take place around the UK in June 2022?
LANDSCAPES TO DO LIST
- It's not untypical for the best landscape paintings to be produced by those who can paint whatever is in front of them to a deadline.
- Make sure you can produce a good digital image of your landscape submission - minus any mount / frame
- Think about what makes for:
- good landscape art
- poor / boring landscape art
- Practice plein air painting - a lot!
- Work out to revise your process so you can produce a landscape image in under four hours
- Then work out how to speed up
- Work out what you need to do to focus better and block out interruptions
- More practice at plein air painting!!
- Submit a good/interesting landscape with your entry
Plus if you want to find out more about the competition - and more
pointers as noted by me while watching the heats on television - do read
my past posts for Series 4,5, and 6 below.
Past Posts about Landscape Artist of the Year
CALLS FOR ENTRIES - Series 6, 7 and 8
- Sky Arts Artist of the Year Competitions: Call for Entries (for Series 8 in 2023)
- Call for entries extended for Landscape Artist of the Year (Series 7) in 2021
- In my blog post - Call for Entries: Landscape Artist of the Year (Series 7) - I provide
- my overview of the call for entries - plus tips
- links to my reviews of past episodes - which also contain quite a few tips (also see below)
- NEW DEADLINE for Landscape Artist of the Year 2020: Friday 29th May
- Call for Entries: Landscape Artist of the Year 2020
- Take a look at my reviews of the last THREE years (below) - which include lots of pics - to help you have a think about whether you want to enter.
- Watch previous series in a major binge on Sky or Now TV - where all episodes are available.
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Below you can find
- the link to my reviews in the current and previous series
- THEMES identified in each of my reviews are highlighted under the link for each review of the episode
- links to blog posts written by the participants - always very helpful!
2021: SERIES 6
Filmed in 2020 after the first lockdown - and the production company were not travelling far from London!- EPISODE 1: Review: Episode 1 of Landscape Artist of the Year 2021 at Chartwell + themes
- Artist profiles
- Composition and completion
- Simplification and what to leave in and what to leave out
- The importance of shadows
- Highly Coloured Grounds
- PLUS participant blog posts:
- Landscape Artist of the Year 2021 | Stuart Jarvis
- Preliminary drawings of the day. | Stuart Jarvis - about how he prepared for the big day by setting himself the challenge of working in different places and to a time limit - to get used to drawing outside
- EPISODE 2: Review: Episode 2 of Landscape Artist of the Year 2021 at West Wycombe Park + themes
- Interpretation - producing something different
- Things Tai-Shan Schierenberg does not like
- Shifting conditions / "The water keeps changing"
- Practice beforehand
- PLUS Participants blog posts:
- Sky Arts Landscape Artist Of The Year 2021- Part 1 (Before...) | Shaun Morris
- Sky Arts Landscape Artist Of The Year 2021 Part 2- The Day Of The Competition | Shaun Morris - with a very good account of what it's like on the day and how the heat makes you feel.
- EPISODE 3: Review: Episode 3 Landscape Artist of the Year at West Reservoir Hackney
- How best to combine nature and urban landscapes
- More of what Tai-Shan does not like
- No scope for walking away to work out what to do next
- Young painters
- Sometimes the second paintings are better
- EPISODE 4: Review: Episode 4 of Landscape Artist of the Year at Chartwell (the gardens)
- Green, green and more green
- A blue sky with nothing happening
- VERY big views with a lot in the distance
- Golden ratio and rule of thirds
- Knowing how big to go for the time allotted
- More about Tai's phobias
- EPISODE 5: Review: Episode 5 of Landscape Artist of the Year at West Wycombe House
- Working in different media - silkscreen printing and marker pens
- Give the artists a proper chance to do well (one for the production team!)
- How to use a frame to find a picture
- Coping with the weather
- What the artist likes to paint - and what happens if you avoid aspects you don't like
- The darkest darks and the lightest lights
- EPISODE 6: Review: Episode 6 of Landscape Artist of the Year 2021 at West Reservoir, Stoke Newington (again!)
- What is a landscape?
- Location: Do your research before the day
- Why you need a hat and umbrella to cope with extreme heat
- Having a strong base colour
- How to capture time as well as a landscape
- UPDATE: The need to train to generate your best result
“I had been called by the production company at the end of June to tell me that I had been selected. I knew I would only have four hours to paint something on the day, so set about training myself on days in July to create something acceptable in my style in four hours, I took some days off work and went off on my bike to paint for four hours in the open, so that on the day I would be used to sitting and painting for that time. It meant that on the day I was able to focus and not panic. In the end I think I did the best I could, but everyone can judge when they watch the programme." Stephen Jordan - Lecturer displays artistic talent on Sky Arts - who produced one of my favourite landscape entries for the competition (which had taken a while to paint) - see below - hence his approach to getting up to speed
- SEMI-FINAL: Review: Semi Finals of Landscape Artist of the Year 2021 at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
- What the Judges want to see
- Who is most likely to do well?
- Consistency versus Experimentation
- Coping with changing light and challenging weather
- Saying what you're painting
In my view those most likely to do well put very simply are
- those who have a well developed method for painting i.e. they know what they're doing and they've done it lots of time before
- those well used to painting plein air - and coping with all sorts of weather and variation of weather and light during the time you are painting
- artists who focus on composition and how best to represent the view
- those who produce the best paintings. It's not about style - it's about quality
- FINAL: Ophelia Redpath wins Landscape Artist of the Year 2021 at Trinity Buoy Wharf
- analysis of pod paintings and commission paintings
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Commission and pod paintings respectively by:
(left to right) Shelagh Casebourne, Ophelia Redpath and Clare
Lord
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2020: SERIES 5
EPISODE 1: Review: Episode 1 of Landscape Artist of the Year 2019 at Smeaton Tower, Plymouth Hoe
- A dominant vertical and a strong horizontal and an awful lot of water
- Being flexible with your formats
- No game plan
- Finding the beauty on the day - and avoiding the twee
- and finally - don't arrive with a gimmick to market your normal artwork
- Finding clothing / kit solutions for extremely challenging weather
- Skies are important: what to do about a grey sky which keeps on changing
- The value of a coloured support
- Don't dodge the complexity (What to do when you don't like the subject)
- Where have the tablets all gone?
- How to crop a complicated view
- Sketching as preparation
- How to work out the wildcard winner before the announcement
- Tools: masking tape and sharp edges
- Game Plans and time management
- Use the Heats to enhance your preparation
- PLUS
- Landscape Artist of the Year 2019 | Camilla Dowse
- Landscape Artist of the Year 2019- Gateshead | Fujiko Rose
- Sky Arts 'Landscape Artist of the Year 2019' An amateur artist's journey ... | Keith Tunnicliffe
- Filming Day... | Keith Tunnicliffe
EPISODE 4: Review: Episode 4 of Landscape Artist of the Year 2019 at Herstmonceux Castle
- What to do when it's a grey day with bad lighting
- Buildings versus nature
- What to do about a very BIG building which is very full on?
- Practical tips from a pod artist
- PLUS
- Smile for the Camera: Sky Landscape Artist of the Year | Sarah Manolescue
- Landscape Artist of the Year 2019 - Wild Card
- Studio Artist vs Plein Air Painter
- How many different ways can you paint the same view
- Where is the sun?
- To shadow or not to shadow
- Don't be twee!
- Different tools for different folks
- PLUS: Sky Landscape Artist of The Year Contestant! by Clare Bowen
- Submission paintings reflecting last year's venues
- Which view to choose in bad weather?
- Which medium to use in changing weather?
- Lush oil and interesting brushwork
- Hold back on the kitsch
- Not a lot of tablets
- PLUS: Landscape Artist of the Year | Semi Finals | Cromarty Oil Rigs | Fujiko Rose
I'm adding Series 4 back in later!
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