£10,000 raised for breast cancer awareness

Tahnee Lonsdale donated 'Loplop' painting to be auctioned at the breast cancer awareness event 'Everyone is Art', it raised £10,000 for charity!

'Loplop' - 48" x 72"

My livingroom featuring Anna Dudley Neill

My livingroom is open to all as a gallery showing paintings from Anna Dudley Neill. The exhibition is part of the Wandsworth Artists' Open House running both weekends of 2-3 & 9-10 October 11am-6pm.

 

Clementine McGaw picks up 'Best Emerging Fine Artist' Award

Clementine McGaw has won 'Best Emerging Fine Artist' at the e-Creative 2010 awards judged by Kate Stanners (Executive Creative Director of Saatchi & Saatchi).

Degree Shows 2010

SfA has five new artists from scouting the degree shows of 2010. Clementine McGaw from St Martins, James Chen-Wishart from Goldsmiths and Christina Christova, Bruno Deroulede, Benjamin Bridges from Wimbledon.

Tomas Georgeson exhibiting at the WRF

Tomas Georgeson will be exhibiting his new series of paintings influenced by the controversial Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch at the Westminster Reference Library as well as two paintings of his uncle, actor Tom Georgeson.

Tomas’s classic style oil paintings have a twist of modern elements, documenting performance and installation art and has frequently exhibited in London since graduation from Central St Martin's in 2006, most notably with 'Contemporary Art Projects' and recently shortlisted for the John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize.

He was the Royal Society of British Artists Rome scholar in 2005 and continues to build his reputation as 'One of the most exciting emergent painters in Europe' - Nice Magazine, March 2009.

Freda Alschuder

SfA has another new artist, Freda Alschuder from Switzerland. She completed her training in England with a diploma in dress design, hence her competence to render the figure. Her flair for design and pattern follow her throughout her artistic career. Her work has appeared in many solo and group exhibits and is in private collections in England, Switzerland, the United States and Canada. She has taught watercolour at the Ottawa School of Art for four years. She now resides in the French part of Switzerland where she continues her teaching and painting. Last year she was chosen to exhibit at the Saatchi gallery.
http://www.scoutingforart.com/freda_alschuler.htm

Tomas Georgeson shortlisted for John Moores prize

Tomas Georgeson is shortlisted for the John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize for his 'Pieta' painting.
The works are selected anonymously from an open submission by the jury and attracts a broad spectrum of artists across europe.
http://www.scoutingforart.com/tomas_georgeson.htm
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/jm2010/

Alice Wisden featured in Rooms Magazine blog

I was contacted by Laura Naylor from Rooms Magazine about writing a feature on Alice Wisdens' paintings.
http://www.scoutingforart.com/alice_wisden.htm
http://roomsmagazine.blogspot.com/2010/04/alice-wisden.html#more

Paul-Emmett Costelloe at The Irish Club

Paul-Emmett Costelloe is now exhibiting at The Irish Club in Blackfriars. The exhibition is in the Munster Room and is showing six of his oil landscape paintings. It is a members club but the exhibition is open to the public for one month.
http://www.scoutingforart.com/paul-emmett_costelloe.htm
http://www.irishclub.co.uk/

Laura Jacobs

SfA has a new artist, Laura Jacobs from Great Western Studios. She works using mixed media, producing layers of gestural information. The end result is dream like story of past and present.
http://www.scoutingforart.com/laura_jacobs.htm