Tag: Andrew Holmes Art
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ING Discerning Eye 2020 Exhibition
A year on. It was a full house last year for the Discerning Eye 2019 Exhibition at The Mall Galleries and Andrew Holmes was extremely honoured to be the recipient of the Meynell Fenton Prize. As always, there was a vibrant atmosphere with so many excellent and diverse pieces of work on display. The preview…
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Royal Academy of Arts – Summer Exhibition 2019
Andrew has just received news that one of his figurative pieces – ‘untitled (Kiyo)’ – a small study in oils on paper, has been selected for the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, 2019. The application process starts with up to 16,000 pieces being submitted online and approximately 4,000 works are then called in for the second stage of…
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Works In Water
Paintings for Spring Over the past year, Andrew has been juggling working on new projects with moving house and – rather more dauntingly – his studio. Now unpacked and settled into his interim workspace, Andrew has been free to forward some more recent works to a few independent galleries. He has finally also had more time…
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New English Art Club – 2018 Exhibition
Apartment 31 by Andrew Holmes The New English Art Club (NEAC), established in 1886, is part of the Federation of British Artists and they are currently holding their annual exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London. The show represents members’ work along with up to one hundred non-member submissions chosen from over two thousand entries.…
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Two Artists’ Previews and an Award
Last week, Andrew attended the Artists’ Previews for the ING Discerning Eye Exhibition at the Mall Galleries, as well as the final selection of works from The National Open Art Competition (NOAC) at The BargeHouse, Southbank. Both exhibitions include works from a broad range of mediums and this definitely adds to their dynamics, providing the…
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The Discerning Eye Exhibition – 2017
The selection process for this year’s Discerning Eye Exhibition is now complete and Andrew is delighted that he will have three new paintings included in the show. Sponsored by ING, this is a show of small works in various mediums and is always very exciting. All three pieces to be included in this year’s hanging…
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21st National Open Art Exhibition – 2017
Andrew is very pleased to hear that a still life he painted earlier this year – ‘Portrait of a Lemon Meringue’ – is to be included in the NOA, (National Open Art), 2017 Exhibition. Professional and amateur artists aged 15 and over have submitted works in a variety of mediums and each entry has been judged anonymously,…
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National Open Art Competition – Winter 2016
The NOA winter 2016 LONG LIST now announced The first round of judging for this year’s competition was held in London at The Arts Club, Dover Street, on Monday 1 August 2016. There are five judges for adult painting, photography and 3 dimensional works: Robin Muir, a photographic historian, former picture editor of Vogue and the Sunday Telegraph Magazine who…
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Thompson’s Gallery – Still, Not Static
For the next couple of weeks Andrew Holmes is showing a small group of cake paintings in Marylebone, Central London. ‘Still, Not Static’ includes sculptures by Andrew Lacey, Johannes Von Stumm and Vanessa Pooley, paintings by Peter Kelly, Terence Clarke and Serena Rowe, to name a few. Tony de Wolf’s detailed work is a development of his studies in the techniques of the…
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Gondolas at the Alexander Gallery
A few Classic views of Venice are now exhibiting in Bath over the coming months. Gallery owner Peter Slade recently commissioned more work featuring Venice for his winter show and he dropped by to collect four new paintings from Andrew earlier this week. When revisiting a subject, Andrew’s approach is to bring together new ideas developed in other areas he studies to…
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Discerning Eye 2015
The Discerning Eye annual exhibition is a show of small works opening this week. Work for this exhibition is selected from open submission and from artists invited by six prominent figures from different areas of the art world: two artists, two collectors and two critics. Each individual selector curates work by their invited artists alongside the successful selected…
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Panter and Hall Gallery
Earlier this week Andrew Holmes delivered a selection of paintings to Pall Mall in Central London. The above painting, dog retrieves stick, an oil on paper, is mounted and framed behind glass. Works by Andrew Holmes will also be exhibiting with Panter and Hall at the autumn Affordable Art Fair held in Battersea Park alongside many other artists, including paintings by Chris Bushe RSW, David Storey…
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The Blackheath Gallery
Over Several years, a selection of Andrew Holmes works have been exhibited with Gallerist James Corless, at the Blackheath Gallery, near Greenwich.
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Democratic Beach
AB Holmes – searcher – Oil on Panel, 40cm x 50cm The Jack House Gallery in Old Portsmouth previewed a new exhibition this week featuring Andrew Holmes Bathers and Studies in Water. Timed to co-incide with the opening day of the America’s Cup Challenge, the area was teeming with yachtsman and sailing enthusiasts, the water awash with sails. Despite some…
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Works on Paper – bathers
Over recent months, Andrew has further explored some earlier ideas of bathers on paper. Initially only intended to be studies for the bather subjects on panel, as Andrew explored various mediums, this became an interesting process where several pieces have evolved into “stand alone” works.
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Jack House Gallery
Owner and Art Curator, Rebecca Crow opened the Jack House Gallery this weekend in Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK . The new, Contemporary Art Gallery situated in the Old Town area, close to the Cathedral and just set back from the waterfront, launched their first show on Saturday 4th of April with works by the much travelled artist, Amartey Golding.
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The Alexander Gallery
Some recent paintings of cakes and desserts have been forwarded to the Alexander Gallery in Bath. Scone VI, Oil on Canvas, 61cm x 71cm. Andrew Holmes In these studies, although the overall image appears to have a high finish, Andrew has focused in areas of the painting by limiting the detail where he considers it to be the most effective and more relevant. Lemon Meringue,…
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ROI – Annual Exhibition – 2014
A Bathing -oil on panel – 50x60cm Two quite different subjects. Two pieces Andrew submitted to the Royal Institute of Oil Painters Society (ROI) have been accepted for their annual exhibition, the subjects cover his still life work and a more recent study of a bather. Although these pieces differ in theme, the painted style is…
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Studies of Water – Painted in Oils
The more recent series of Andrew Holmes’s studies of “water with dog swimming” are nearing completion. These paintings make up part of a larger body of work which Andrew has been focusing on over the past few months, covering the subject of ‘water and swimmers’ in a variety of spaces and locations. When Andrew approaches each painting, a different challenge is presented. In…
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Still life at Frivoli
Over the following months the Frivoli Gallery is showing a selection of Andrew Holmes’s still life paintings of which the subject matter is food. So far, we gather that the large painting of Chips became quite a conversation piece during it’s short time in the window. The Frivoli Gallery owner, Hazel, is inspired by her early love of sculpture and ceramics and as…
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A fresh eye
Revisiting a painting. Andrew’s aim is to impart the simplest visual information. His enquiry is as much about the abstract element in the paint, to provide just enough detail and to avoid unnecessary distractions. In an earlier painting, Cake or Death, Andrew reviewed the original background. With a fresh eye he repainted this and by removing the more textured background, he hopes this painting now has better clarity and…
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Edible Still life
Now showing with the Dadbrook Gallery A selection of Andrew’s still life work is now available with the Dadbrook Gallery based in Buckinghamshire, established nearly a decade ago. The owner of the Gallery is Clico Kinsbury, who’s commitment to Art is evident in her selection of works, and the success of the gallery, has precipitated the recent appointment of Kat Kowalewska as Gallery Manager. Clico and Kat…
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Medici Gallery Exhibition
Andrew Holmes’ paintings have been well received at the Still Life show running until 8th July ’14. The show includes a wide variety pieces from Pierre-Yves Russo’s paintings on Copper Plate alongside Jo Barrett, Barbara Richardson RBA, Tom Hughes and Anna Paik. We were really pleased with the Lemon Meringue, a delicate pastry which, as a painting subject, provided…
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Still Life – detail and abstraction
There is an exhibition of Still life work scheduled at The Medici Gallery in Cork Street, London, next month, which will include some of Andrew Holmes’ work. The show opens on June 10th and runs through to July 8th 2014. The Gallery Curator has chosen a number of Andrew Holmes’ still life paintings to exhibit in this show and we are delighted with…
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Final Shortlist
Andrew’s painting – boy bathing – has now reached the final stage of the 2014 Summer Exhibition selection process at the Royal Academy of Art. All the works will be taken into the galleries where the Curators have a huge task ahead of them in arranging the final hang. During this process, they have to balance the pieces into…
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Royal Academy – Summer Exhibition 2014
boy bathing – shortlisted This year artists were invited to a submit their work for the 2014 Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art by supplying digital images online. The Academy limited the submissions to 12,000 and the judges then selected 4,000 to be delivered for further assessment. Artists who have been fortunate enough to be shortlisted at this stage are asked…
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Transport in Venice
Two recent Venice paintings Although gondolas are considered the traditional modes of transport in Venice , on arrival at the airport, the trip across the lagoon would be too difficult and would therefore have to be via bus, train or water-bus . If affordable, one of the loveliest ways to arrive in Venice is by water taxi. The…
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