My picture 'Stop, Check, Turn and Double Back' has been selected for the final 50 exhibition of The British Art Prize 2024, a competition run by Artists and Illustrators Magazine.Its a drawing of Tib Lane in Manchester. You can vote for it in ‘the peoples choice’ award. It will be in the finalists exhibition at the Oxo Tower 4th-8th December. The picture measures 34x54cm. For compositional reasons I have removed all people, umbrellas, and some cars, also reshuffled various lights and windows. This is the third drawing in what seems to be becoming my 'Manchester at Night' series, with more to follow. I drew this on illustration board with Caran D'Ache Prismalo pencils, using four colours, Black, Charcoal (which is actually more of a dark sepia), Indigo Blue and Light Ochre. It took me a few months to do this one, working on and off. It comes from being back in the city last year, I went to Manchester Art Gallery and was inspired by the Pierre Adolphe Valette paintings to do some more pictures of the city, but where as he was great at reducing images down and losing detail, I am not! So this drawing looks nothing like a Valette even though he inspired it!
I will be exhibiting at Art Fair East in Norwich again this year, PV on Thursday 7th November, then all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday. If you need tickets let me know. It's at a new venue, The Assembly House, unfamiliar to me but should be well worth a visit as this one attracts lots of very good artists. I will be at Benenden Art Fair in Kent, PV is Friday 4th 6-8pm, then Saturday 10-5 and Sunday 10-4. Details of how to get there etc., are on the website. https://www.benendenartfair.com/visit-us I will have a bunch of drawings and prints with me with emphasis on Kent from my time living in Whitstable and Broadstairs. I'll have a smattering of other things too from other parts of the UK and USA. I will be at Bath Art Fair on Friday 23rd-Sunday 25th Feb. The second time I've done this one, a very nice venue and lots of good artists. I will have a range of stuff with me, including small paintings, prints original drawings framed and unframed. Drop by if you're in the area. Details, tickets etc at www.bathartfair.co.uk I now have an association with a gallery in Bury St Edmunds called Art In East Anglia. Lots of good local artists in there if you are visiting the area.
I am also selling some prints through Fisher's Creek, an excellent interior design company with strong eco principals. So I'm on this tonight, Sky Arts 8pm. Filmed quite a while ago in Compton Verney in Warwickshire, my one request was 'Don't give me green fields and a lake to draw', so that went well. The back of my head has already appeared in a trailer, it's all down hill from there! Nice people though.
So the Turner Contemporary, in nearby Margate, a gallery so prestigious not only did it host the last Turner Prize, it actually appears on a £20 note, is celebrating its first 10 years by holding an exhibition of Kent artists, either trained in Kent or living in Kent. Out of 4500 entries 450 were chosen (or thereabouts), I have one picture included, not at all in my usual style, its actually a painting, but on the plus side they have printed a postcard of it, available in the Turner Contemporary shop. The exhibition runs from 23.10.21 until 20.02.22. This is the picture, Good Day Version 10, its of North Foreland lighthouse, at Joss Bay in Broadstairs. Link to Turner Contemporary site.
I am taking part in an online exhibition called 'Bus Stop Gothic' beginning on 25th June. Organised by the ridiculously talented John Ball, @beware_the_void , it features a total of 8 UK artists that depict urban scenes. The quality of the work is outstanding, I'm honoured to be included! The poster below shows part of my picture 'Thank God I've Hit The Bottom' of the semi demolished Holly Tree pub on Northdown Road in Cliftonville, Margate.
So during the lockdown art fairs have been postponed and galleries shut, but I've produced some new drawings which Ive added to the site ('Thank God I've Hit The Bottom', 'We Know The Night' and 'Secrets' on the Contacts page. I've also added a Press page which has the article I had in Artist and Illustrators Magazine, February 2020 issue.
I will be trying to sell some pictures as part of the #artistsupportpledge on Instagram (@patrickwilkinsartuk) so have a look there and let me know if you're interested. In the meantime here's another picture of Salem that I've just finished, its called 'Disappearing'. I have 6 pictures in a group show at the York Street Gallery in Ramsgate at the moment. The show is along with the gang of us that run and/or help out at the New Kent Gallery in Broadstairs. It's on until the 27th. Poster below.
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