Category: life drawing
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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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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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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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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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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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National Portrait Gallery – BP Award 2015
Later this year, the art world will be keenly awaiting the final shortlisted paintings for the annual BP Portrait award. The preliminary round of judging is now complete. For the first time, all submissions were made online and out of close to three thousand applications, five hundred have been called in for the next stage.
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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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Learning to look – Life sketches
Some of Andrew’s Sketches Every week in West London, a life drawing group meet in a room above a pub to draw together. The people who attend are from varied walks of life, spanning all ages, using whatever medium they prefer, to practice their life drawing and sharing this common interest. There is no judging…
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