Tag: A B Holmes Art
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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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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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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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‘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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Venice goes to Bath
The Alexander Gallery in Bath have just taken delivery of a selection of Andrew Holmes paintings of Venice for their Easter Show. This is a one of Andrew’s larger paintings of a view of St Marks Square early in the morning before the crowds gather. It’s fascinating to watch Venice gently wake for a new day…
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AAF Hong Kong with Panter and Hall
The Affordable Art Fair will be setting up for the 2014 Spring show in Hong Kong over the next couple of weeks. Andrew’s work will be exhibiting here, represented by The Panter and Hall Gallery, Pall Mall, London, UK. His large scale still life paintings will be showing alongside landscapes by Chris Bushe RSW and Luke Martineau, abstracts…
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