Category: the human form
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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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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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‘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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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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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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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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Figures in water
More recent Andrew Holmes paintings of bathers will be exhibiting with the Panter and Hall Gallery next week at the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea, London. ‘Generations’ is one piece in a collection Andrew has been developing since ‘boy bathing’. Working on a group of themed studies of figures in water, Andrew is using a limited palette, focusing on simple compositions while exploring the…
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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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Welcome to Andrew Holmes’s new blog
This is the official blog for the British artist, Andrew Holmes, most well known for his delicious paintings of cakes and pastries. Here, you will be able to keep up to date with the latest information on Andrew’s works and exhibitions. To visit Andrew B Holmes website, please see: www.andrewholmes.co.uk Contact: info@andrewholmes.co.uk © AB Holmes 2014, All rights…
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