Watch Landscape Artist of the Year 2025

Landscape Artist of the Year starts next week. Below I've identified 

• the day, dates and times that all the programmes in the series are being broadcast
• the locations they went to
• what the commission is!

Series 10 in 2025

Broadcast Dates and Times

Most people will watch live on Wednesday evenings at 8pm. You can view it via Sky Arts, Freeview and NOW

However if you want to set your recorder or like getting up in the middle of the night, you can watch it at 2am!

• Heat 1 - 22nd January 2025
• Heat 2 - 29th January 2025
• Heat 3 - 5th February 2025
• Heat 4 - 12th February 2025
• Heat 5 - 19th February 2025
• Heat 6 - 26th February 2025

Clare Rose's submission to get a place in a pod
see yesterday's post about
Call for Entries - Landscape Artist of the Year 2026 (Series 11)

This is not the order they were filmed in - because they film at two venues at three locations - and then mix them up to arrive at the heats which are broadcast. There's usally something very good or special about the first one.

Then we have:

• Semi Finals - 5th March 2025
• Finals - 12th March 2025
• Plus the Commission Programme - which in recent times has followed straight after the Finals Programme.

I suggest you keep an eye out on social media as the artists are beginning to post pics of their their experience - in a way which does not disclose outcomes!

Locations

It looks to me as if there was a bit of a bodge going on re securing locations to film back in Summer 2024. 

HEATS

When I wrote my post How to watch Landscape Artist of the Year 2025 being filmed - these were the only ones which had been highlighted.

More had to exist - and I've highlighted the new ones to be announced below - in red.

There are supposed to be three locations with two venues at each

BRISTOL

• Bristol Harbourside (by the Cottage Ferry Terminal) onThursday 13th June 2024
• the iconic Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol - which I suspect must be the second Bristol location 

SNOWDONIA

• Llanberis, Snowdonia (near the National Slate Museum) on 
• Wednesday 19th June and
• Thursday 20th June 2024
• Llanberis Lake at the base of Yr Wyddfa (Mount Snowdon) - which I'm guessing is the second Snowdonia location

THIRD HEAT VENUE

I'm guessing this is West London - near to the Storyvault Films HQ.

We know from recently publicity that they filmed at

• the historic grounds of Hampton Court Palace
• the newly redeveloped St. Pancras Basin. 

Presenter Stephen Mangan at the "new bit" of Hampton Court
- with the amazing yews.

I'll just insert my sketches of the Yews at this juncture - done 13 years ago! (see Hampton Court Palace and its 300 year old Yew Trees)

Hampton Court Palace East Front and the Yews, October 2012
pen and ink and coloured pencils, 8" x 10" in Moleskine Sketchbook
copyright Katherine Tyrrell

The trick with the Yew Tress is to get as much texture and colour variation as possible and capture the fact they are slightly uneven conical shapes

Yews at Hampton Court Palace, October 2012
pen and ink and coloured pencils, 8" x 10" in Moleskine Sketchbook
copyright Katherine Tyrrell

But if, as suggested, there are eight heat winners - where's the fourth location and the two heat venues?

(I suspect this is a publicity person who's forgotten that PAOTY has eight heats and LAOTY has just six heats)

SEMI-FINALS

Portsmouth Historic Dockyard - which includes:
the Mary Rose Museum, HMS Victory (Nelson's ship) and
the National Museum of the Royal Navy

The semi-final location where eight heat winners is confirmed as being Portsmouth Historic Dockyard 

This is home to world famous ships, submarines and museums that tell the story of centuries of maritime and Royal Navy history. It also won the prestigious Museum + Heritage Awards 2024, where it clinched not one, but two accolades: Partnership of the Year and Best Use of Digital.

FINAL - Stonehenge

The Final for the top three artists was held at Stonehenge which is one of Britain’s most iconic landmarks.

I wonder if they got them set up so they could capture the dawn. They're close enough to Midsummer that they should get the special effect of how the sun rises relative to the stones!!

Beats getting people to do sunsets in Covent Garden - (READ Monica Popham wins Landscape Artist of the Year 2024 and my somewhat caustic comments in the Painting at Night section) - as you know as the filming progresses the day only gets lighter.

and finally.....THE COMMISSION

The Winner of the 10th series of Landscape Artist of the Year received 

• a £10,000 commission 
• for the prestigious Courtauld Gallery in London and 
• the opportunity to create a landscape in the south of France, following in the footsteps of the Monet, Manet and Van Gogh. 

Monet and Van Gogh I get - but Manet? 

For what it's worth - below is my sketch of Monet's painting of Antibes.

My sketch of Monet's painting of Antibes in the Courtauld Gallery

11.5" x 8" in Large Moleskine Sketchbook,

pencil and coloured pencils

copyright Katherine Tyrrell