Category: Life painting/studies
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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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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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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 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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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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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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