Jackson’s Portray Prize 2023 Folks’s Selection, Novice Artist, and Pupil Award Winners Introduced

We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the Folks’s Selection Award, Novice Artist Award, and Pupil Award for the Jackson’s Portray Prize 2023. Congratulations to the next artists who’ve every received a £1000 money prize in addition to a £500 value of Jackson’s Artwork supplies.


 

Folks’s Selection Award

Lucy Gable

Menopausal Me, 2022
Lucy Gable
Oil on panel, 40 x 40 cm | 15.7 x 15.7 in

 

“I’m notably drawn to portray portraits in oil, typically feminine, and I attempt to seize the over-riding emotion of a selected singular second. I typically discover that these feelings are obscure however intense, and embody exhaustion, fury, exasperation and pleasure. I attempt to problem the inventive stereotype of feminine magnificence which tends to depict ladies as passive, acquiescent, inviting or in ache.”

 

Novice Artist Award

Kuangyi Liu

Inside No.5, 2021
Kuangyi Liu
Oil on canvas, 54 x 46 cm | 21.2 x 18.11 in

 

“I wish to seize what I see and the way it makes me really feel utilizing the brushes and oil paint, be sincere, from coronary heart, by remark. I imagine there’s all the time one thing higher to come back, from practising and difficult myself.”

 

Pupil Award

Ginny Elston

The Burden of Being, 2022
Ginny Elston
Acrylic on paper, 120 x 168 cm | 47.2 x 66.1 in

 

The Burden of Being is an uncomfortable confrontation of our ceaseless habits of consuming and discarding supplies that may lengthy outlive us on the planet. We spend our lives accumulating ‘stuff’, and I needed to make a portray that speaks of the overwhelming and overbearing nature of these items.”

 


 

Upcoming Schedule:

Jackson’s Portray Prize 2023 Winner Introduced: 14th April

Reasonably priced Artwork Truthful Hampstead: tenth – 14th Could

Bankside Gallery: twenty fourth – thirtieth July

 


 

Clare McNamara

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