Sunday, February 06, 2022

Landscape Artist of the Year - National Trust Favourites

Which are the top ten landscape paintings of National Trust properties that have been created during the filming of Landscape Artist of the Year? 



A number of National Trust properties have been the location for the pods since 2015.

The "answer" was revealed in a one-off programme - Landscape Artist of the Year: National Trust Favourites - broadcast on Sky Arts on 2nd February which celebrated the National Trust buildings - and associated paintings.  (Note: The programme is being broadcast again on different days and different times this week.)

Except was it? There were absolutely no landscapes from Series 5 or 6 and only 1 from Series 4 in the top 10 - filmed in 2019 and 2020 -and 2018 respectively - and yet there were some great landscape paintings of National Trust properties in those series......

I think it's because National Trust properties were very much featured in Series 1, 2 and 3 - and then very little in Series 4, 5 and 6. To emphasise my point - I've only written about and reviewed ONE of the heats featured below!

That quibble aside, the programme was a very gentle and satisfying combination of:
  • a review of the top 10 paintings - as voted for by the public - which have won heats in the series since 2015 (but which series???)
  • an introduction to places I've never visited as well as remembering past visits to specific locations which I have visited.
The top ten paintings are as voted for by members of the public. So no involvement of the Judges - this is a programme for all those who write every week that they didn't agree with the Judges!!



The paintings were announced in reverse order - and hence that's the order I will use below. I'm referening the location and the artist - and providing links where these are self-evident.

Some of the profile info comes from the ever-helpful blog posts done by Cass Arts - a partner of the programme.

10. Wray Castle by Anna Perlin (Series 2 Heat 2 / 2016)


Location: Wray Castle in the Lake District a gothic revival castle standing on the shores of Lake Windermere
Anna Perlin: painter and printmaker based in Hertfordshire. Reached the semi-finals of Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year 2016 and won Artists and Illustrators Artist of the Year 2017.

9. Trelissick by Emma Copley (Series 1 Heat 2 / 2015)


Trelissick Gardens by Emma Copley

Location: Trelissick - a garden near Truro in Cornwall
Artist: Emma Copley 

8. Lyme Park by Jamie Hageman (Series 1 Heat 5 2015)




Location: Lyme Park Cheshire - a magnificent house and estate on the edge of the Peak District.
Artist: Jamie Hageman - a British self-taught mountain landscape painter, based in the West Highlands of Scotland. He currently lives and works in Fort William, Scotland and was a Finalist at Stourhead on the inaugural Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year, broadcast in 2015. He also has the distinction of winning the first heat in the first series and has been a finalist in a number of art competitions.

7. Flatford - a commission painting by Nerine (McIntyre) Tassie




Location: Flatford, Suffolk
Artist: Nerine Tassie - graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2002 with a degree in Fine Art. She won the very first series of Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year in 2015. This was her commission painting.

Interviews:
  • https://www.cassart.co.uk/blog/sky-arts-nerine-tassie.htm
  • https://www.cassart.co.uk/blog/sky_arts_landscape_winner_nerine_tassie.htm
Interestingly there's a postscript to this painting - as found in this tweet

 

6. Stowe by Philip Edwards (Series 2 Heat 3 / 2016)



Location: Stowe
Artist: Philip Edwards - produces landscape drawings of Scotland. Born in Perth in 1980. MA (Hons) Fine Art (With Distinction in The History of Art), from Edinburgh University and College of Art. Works as a Financial Controller for a charity in Perth. He works in various media and used charcoal for the programme.


5. Fountains Abbey by Carl Knibb (Series 4 Heat 1 / 2018)



Location:  Fountains Abbey one of the largest and best preserved ruined Cistercian monasteries in England.
Artist: Carl Knibb - a professional artist who lives and works in Lichfield, Staffordshire. He's very good at painting figures in urban streets contre jour.





4. Stourhead by Nerine (McIntyre) Tassie (Series 1 Final / 2015)



Location: Stourhead - a garden in Wiltshire
Artist: Nerine Tassie
see 7 above for details of the artist's sites

This was the painting which won the first series of Landscape Artist of the Year.

3. Scotney Castle by Titus Agbara (Series 2 Heat 4 / 2015)



Location: Scotney Castle - the 14th century castle in Kent is now in ruins and is surrounded by a moat
Artist: Titus Agbara

2. Rhosili Beach by Alice Boggis-Rolfe (Series 3 Heat 3 / 2017



Location: Rhosili Beach on the Gower Peninsula in South Wales
Artist: Alice Boggis-Rolfe - a figurative painter who lives in Gloucestershire and trained at Chelsea College of Art and Heatherley's School of Fine Art. She has had three sell-out solo exhibitions. She also exhibits regularly with the New English Art Club, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters.

Alice Boggis-Rolfe (Semi Final 2017) - submission and semi-final painting

Interview: https://www.cassart.co.uk/blog/alice-boggis-rolfe-wins-heat-3-of-sky-arts-landscape-artist-of-the-year-2017.htmI've seen Alice's paintings on a number of occasions and for me, she is one of the LAOTY artists who I expect to keep seeing her landscape paintings in exhibitions in years to come.

1. Scotney Castle by Howard Weaver (Series 2 Semi Final 2016)

Howard Weaver - with his painting of Scotney Castle
Series 2 Semi Final 2016

Location: Scotney Castle - the 14th century castle in Kent is now in ruins and is surrounded by a moat
Artist: Howard Weaver is a professional scenic artist who has worked on a number of well known films and television series - including Game of Thrones


Interestingly Howard did not know he's won until somebody told him the day after the programme was broadcast. (left hand / right hand??)

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PS It took me three days to write this - I'm currently recuperating from and medicated for ankle fusion surgery last Monday. Otherwise known as everything is very slow at the moment - especially movement on one leg! I'm hoping to get my review of last week's episode published before the next episode!

This programme has made me think that - during my rest and recuperation from surgery (as in "one one leg and can't go anywhere for 12 weeks!") I might watch all the LAOTY series all the way through again - and then do my own top ten landscape artists - on the basis I don't have to pick a heat winner....

Do send me your suggestions for those artists who you think missed out......
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