Henry Gibbons Guy solo exhibition

Henry Gibbons Guy (Senior Faculty/DY 2005) will be exhibiting new work in his forthcoming solo exhibition 'Recent Works from the Heath'. Private view 16 March 6-8,30 pm Exhibition open 7 March to 1 April - viewing by appointment (call 020 7278 2070). Address: The Meditatio Centre, St Marks, Myddelton Square, London, EC1R 1XX. Nearest tube: Angel. 

Visit the artist's website: https://www.henrygibbonsguy.com/

Josias Figueirido in group show at The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia

Josias Figueirido (DY 2010) is taking part in a group show at The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. 'Surface Forms' showcases silk-screened yardage designs created through the museum’s Apprentice Training Program. The exhibition, which is open until 25 June, presents dozens of original designs ranging in color, style, and subject matter, alongside swatch books from the museum’s archive. Opening: 17 March, 6–8 pm. More info here.

Kirsty Buchanan in Royal Watercolour Society annual exhibition

Kirsty Buchanan (DY 2013) is included in the Royal Watercolour Society 2017 Exhibition 

Her painting, titled ‘Immoral Tales', is shown below:

  

Exhibition dates: 3-15 March. 

Address: Royal Watercolour Society, Bankside Gallery, 48 Hopton Street, London SE1 9JH

Details here: https://www.royalwatercoloursociety.co.uk/

Christopher Green wins First Prize at the Lynn Painters-Stainers Prize 2017

Congratulations to two of our alumni who won the top two prizes at the Lynn Painters-Stainers Prize 2017 on Monday night, the opening evening of the exhibition.

Christopher Green (current Faculty and DY 2008) was awarded the First Prize (£ 15,000) for his large drawing ‘Lunchtime, Liverpool Street’ (143x128cm) – see image below:

Michael Chance (DY 2013) was awarded the Second Prize (£ 4,000) for his painting 'Self Portrait in the Peanut Factory' (oil on board, 122x152cm). Michael’s painting is a reinterpretation of Rembrandt’s famous painting Danae (Hermitage, Saint Peterburg).

For those of you who wish to see the exhibition, it is open until 18 March 2017 at the Mall Galleries, London SW1. 

Sophie Levi in two-person exhibition

New work by Alex Cree

Durdle Door: Bathers (2016) by Alex Cree

Frosty morning (2016) by Alex Cree

Douglas Farthing exhibits drawings and paintings from Iraq

British Soldiers on the streets of Basra, Iraq (2009) by Douglas Farthing

Douglas Farthing (DY 2015) will be showing work from 2009, made in Iraq during his last tour with the British Army and never exhibited before. The group exhibition, titled 'War & Peace', features four members of the Armed Forces Art Society.

• War & Peace at Menier Gallery,  7-11 March, Address: 51 Southward Street, London, SE1 1RU.

Doug retired from the British Army in 2013, after which he attended the Drawing Year. With no formal art training, he made many drawings on the back of  military maps. You can two examples of drawing from Basra here. 

Twelve alumni and faculty in Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2017

Twelve alumni and members of faculty have had paintings selected for the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize exhibition in March. The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize was created in 2005 to encourage the very best creative representational painting and promote the skill of draughtsmanship. Click on each title below to view the works:

Daniel Preece This Must be the Place
Carl Randall David Mitchell and the Whispering Gallery
Carl Randall Katie Leung and the Shed
Cherry Pickles A487

Christopher Green Lunchtime, Liverpool Street

Elvira Rose Oddy Landscape

Michael Chance Self-Portrait in the Peanut Factory

Judi Green Living Under Blue Skies, Roseland

Mary Millner Keep Out (Auchinleck Mine)
Max Naylor Inlet 
Tim Patrick Mary
Stephen Polatch Footballer
Stephen Polatch Boy in Wood II
Chris Wallbank Westminster from Festival Hall

Cherry Pickles: new paintings

Cherry Pickles (RDS Senior Faculty) has a solo exhibition opening in a fortnight:

Smoking with the Boys

An Exhibition of Paintings

Cherry Pickles

Saturday 25 February – Sunday 9 April

Vernissage 6.00 - 9.30 Saturday 25 February

Viewing by appointment: 0208 801 8577/07976 090 279

voleo40@hotmail.co.uk

The Room, 33 Holcombe Road, Tottenham Hale, N17 9AS

www.the-room.org.uk

Dan McCarthy and Charlie Masson in group exhibition

Dan McCarthy and Charlie Masson (both DY 2011) have work in a group exhibition titled 'Caput' at The Crypt Gallery in Euston in February. The exhibition will be open 6-12 February, with Private Views on Thu 9 February 6-9pm and Sat 11 February 5-9pm. Download the invite here. More info here.