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Mi Blog Es Tu Blog - Tim Benson
I met Tim several years ago as he was a substitute in a painting a class at Heatherley's. Since then we found ourselves together in a few prize shows such as Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Competition,...
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Portrait Painters Today / My Paintings
As you might have already read I am in a group show opening in two days time at Milton Gallery in St. Paul's School, London. It is a very good line up of painters and I am thrilled that I have been...
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Portrait Painters Today - The Show
The opening this evening was a great success, the gallery was full and the show has been hanged really well.Here are some iphone images of the evening:With Tim Benson in front of his paintings.Tim with...
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Piero and Plato
I thought about writing this post after stumbling on an article about the recent display of Piero della Francesca's paintings at the Met. I read the first paragraphs of this review on the NYT and...
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Sensing Spaces at the Royal Academy
Last week I was invited, through Katherine Tyrrell from Making a Mark blog, at the Bloggers preview of a new Exhibition now open at the Royal Academy in London ( isn't it great that this institution...
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Diarmuid Kelley Show at Offer Waterman
Diarmuid Kelley is a painter with an excellent reputation who shows regularly at the prestigious Offer and Waterman Gallery in Chelsea, London. His latest show, All Cats Are Gray, ( buy catalogue)...
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Mi Blog Es Tu Blog - Felicia Forte
I have met Felicia last year at the opening of the Women Painting Women Show in Alexandria, Va.She immediately struck me for her sophisticated stylish look and her intelligent eyes . The same...
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A Proud Daughter
That would be me, and I hope you will forgive this deviation from strict painting matters to which the blog is devoted and read about the publication of a book that was sponsored and curated by my...
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Next Summer
If in these weeks you are making plans for the summer, why not spend some time painting in Italy ?Perhaps you have already heard about the summer program of the Jerusalem Studio School. The program...
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Mi Blog Es Tu Blog - Jill Bathorpe
I saw Jill Barthorpe's show a few years ago and I was particularly interested in her peculiar mark-making. I can see an influence of the Slade School of Art but then she has developped it in her own...
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Lynn Painters-Stainers Prize 2014
The Lynn Painters-Stainers prize Exhibition is now open at the Mall Galleries in London. This is a prize that has been created in 2005 to encourage representational painting, and it awards a very good...
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Recent Monotypes
In the past months I have continued my printmaking activity and I have shown my monotypes at the Works on Paper Fair at the Science Museum in London.I was very happy to learn that a very small monotype...
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Mi Blog Es Tu Blog - Annabel Cullen
I first became aware of Annabel's work when I saw her portrait of Baroness Blackstone hanging in the National Portrait Gallery. This year I had the pleasure of meeting her briefly as we showed...
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Oscar Ghiglia, A Forgotten Master
I came across the work of Oscar Ghiglia in a visit to Villa Mimbelli in Livorno years ago. Since then I always cherished the catalogue I have and never have enough of looking at his work.Portrait of...
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Mi Blog Es Tu Blog - Sarah Jane Moon
Sarah Jane is the recipient of this year's Bulldog Bursary, awarded by the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. I have been following her progress at Heatherley's, where I had also studied...
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Sprezzatura: what does it mean ?
Recently I have come across this term in a book on Venetian painting and in an article about portraits. When the word appeared again in an FT article over sunglasses I felt I had ought to do something...
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Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Show - My works
I am very happy to have two works selected for the RSPP show at Mall Galleries, London. I have been selected for a number of years and every time I am very grateful to the society for allowing me to be...
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Four shows
I have many friends exhibiting in London these days !I have met Lucy Powell years ago in painting classes. She was always a very good painter but in recent year she has progressed even forward by...
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Mi Blog Es Tu Blog - Kim Scouller
I met Kim a couple of years ago as we painted together sharing a a model, and I admired her powerful paint handling, particularly in the small scale. Selectors for the BP Portrait Award have spotted...
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Mi Blog Es Tu Blog - Sam Dalby
Lots of shows opening these days, among them an exhibition of works by Sam Dalby, whom I recently met at the opening of the Royal Society or Portrait Painters Show. Sam was elected a member last year...
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