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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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ING Discerning Eye Exhibition – 2019
‘Kiyohime’, a new figurative study, has been selected for the 2019 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition. Painted in oil on paper this painting is part of a series of pieces Andrew has worked on over the past year. The Discerning Eye exhibition attracts more interest as the years pass and the collection grows. Andrew particularly enjoys being…
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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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New work with Panter and Hall
Three new figurative studies have been selected by Panter and Hall for this year’s Autumn Affordable Art Fair, (AAF). Held in Battersea Park, the show will open with a Charity Private View in the evening on Wednesday 18th Oct 2017. The autumn is often a busy time for Andrew, with several interesting exhibitions coming up…
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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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The Pose: Recent Life Sketches
Over the past few months, Andrew Holmes has been further developing his figure drawings. When possible, Andrew enjoys joining a life drawing group as this provides an opportunity to share the same space and ideas with other artists. Based in West London, the sessions attract an eclectic and multinational group of people from a wide variety of professions and backgrounds. All…
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Mall Galleries – new online gallery
For many years The Mall Galleries have actively supported both established and emerging artists offering a wonderful space in Central London where various exhibitions take place. More recently they have set up a new online gallery to showcase many of the regular contributors to their exhibitions and we were delighted to have been invited to have some of Andrew…
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A Tarte and some Cherries at the Frivoli Gallery
A new series of cherry paintings by Andrew Holmes together with tarte au fraise completed earlier in the year helped to set this years festive scene. In the busy rush up to Christmas, the window at the Frivoli Gallery, located in the popular Devonshire Terrace area of Chiswick, West London – mentioned in earlier posts – was decorated with a seasonal theme…
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Waffle and doughnuts,..
A couple of weeks before the festive break we delivered a selection of Andrew Holmes’s still life works to the Fairfax Gallery in Royal Tunbridge Wells, a spa town dating back to Roman times. The gallery is located in the Pantiles – an elegant colonnaded walkway situated in the centre of the town and where the spa can be found. These…
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‘The Cakes are Back’ – at the Alexander Gallery in Bath
Together with some of this year’s figure studies. Andrew Holmes cake paintings have been well-received in Bath, a beautiful, historic city with an abundance of tea shops and varied eateries. He painted Aphrodite and Adonis and I am a donut earlier in the year and they are making their debut in a location which feels very appropriate. The owner of the Alexander Gallery…
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Royal Institute of OiI Painters – 2016 Exhibition
AB Holmes – searcher, Oil on Panel, 40cm x 50cm Opening next week at the Mall Galleries in Central London, the Royal Institute of OiI Painters (ROI) will be showing this year’s selection of members’ paintings together with just over one hundred pieces chosen from the open submission to be included in the exhibition. The selections were made earlier…
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An Exhibition of Small Works – ING Discerning Eye 2016
Untitled AP12 (White head and dress) The selectors of Andrew Holmes’ paintings showing in this years Discerning Eye Exhibition were finally revealed at the Artists Preview evening on Thursday the 17th November. Two pieces of work by Andrew were chosen to be included, each by the two artists who were on the selectors panel: Dan Coombes and Chris Orr, RA. Andrew’s painting; Untitled AP12…
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Aubergine Gallery – Wimbledon
A selection of Andrew Holmes still life paintings of cakes are currently showing with The Aubergine Gallery in Wimbledon. Andrew’s cake and food paintings have always been a subject for which he is well known. Whilst he continues to explore the figurative pieces, he regularly revisits the vocabulary of still life. This provides Andrew some objectivity; a different viewpoint…
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National Open Art Exhibition 2016
The National Open Art organisation is now in it’s twentieth year and is currently exhibiting the 2016 selected works at The Mercers’ Hall, City of London, until the 4th of November. The exhibition is open to the public and admission is free. This is a great showcase for artists of any age, working in a variety of mediums, to have their…
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In Water
A selection of more recent paintings in Andrew Holmes series of people in water will be showing over the next few days with Panter and Hall at the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea. In these paintings Andrew continues to examine how light and contrast play such a significant role in how we perceive an image – where the abstract element…
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ING Discerning Eye 2016
This exhibition attracts some of the most interesting and varied artworks each year because the selectors are drawn from so many different areas of the art world. The works submitted cover a diverse range and styles, inclusive of the traditional approach but with a strong focus on contemporary pieces. Andrew was very happy to have been introduced to and invited…
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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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Andrew B Holmes recent work.
Over the last few months, new studies have been in development adding to and expanding on Andrew’s already varied portfolio. The painted works focus in particular on the figurative subjects which will be discussed in more detail in future posts, together with Andrew’s thoughts regarding his more illustrative pieces. Some sample pieces in this body…
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New figurative studies
White Dresses and Generic girls To celebrate a new year, here’s a selection of Andrew Holmes life paintings he’s developed over the past few months. The ‘white dress figures’ are first painted as full life studies and Andrew then overpaints a simple white shape to highlight the form and contrasts between the soft and sharp surfaces. In particular, the works are…
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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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What’s in a name
I am a doughnut – Food and cake paintings provide a rich source of inspiration and this subject is where Andrew Holmes is perhaps better known. Whilst Andrew plans a series of paintings under an initial group title, it is during the process where he then determines how this will be reflected and when individual titles are attributed.
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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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New Work – lighting the dark
Further studies of bathers. Andrew Holmes figurative work is further developing his enquiry into observations of life subjects in relation to a space and has continued with more abstract examination using contrasts and the consequent effect.
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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.