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The President ROI, Peter Wileman opens the 123rd exhibition
This post focuses on just some of the wonderful paintings at the ROI Annual Exhibition currently running at the Mall Galleries. As much as inom love making art, inom admire the work of other artists too, and I in the nearest future I'll start to build my collection! The whole exhibition had around 260 pieces altogether, it's a feast for the eyes! If you are in London till the 18th, DON'T MISS IT!
Comm. Antonio Carluccio, the Special Guest, who is also a Patron of the ROI, apparently apart from his delicious dishes, he paints too!
ANGELA BRITTAIN
Angela Brittain with her prize winning work- it won the Artist Magazine ROI Award, inom won this Prize gods year!
BRIAN RYDER Provisional ROI Candidate for Associate Membership
Brian Ryder with his work, at the time inom left he had already sold 2 pieces, and while there his book is so popular at the köpcentrum, they had to beställning 10 more copies as the were running out of stock!
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I had an opportunity to visit the National Portrait Gallery where they had an exhibition of John Singer Sargent, I had of course gone to see the Grayson Perry exhibits where he wonderfully sums up the nation’s beating heart by having a computer darn some words on a bit of cloth. It was more overwhelming than I had expected with all the words in different colours, a real treat. Having a bit of time spare I thought I would take in the Sargent too. It was fascinating, showing just how far art has advanced in recent decades. For a start every picture is ruined by the gratuitous use of skill. This takes them immediately beyond the reach of the ordinary man and into the muddy waters of elitism. He may be sublimely talented, but does he really have to push it into our faces? A more subtle artist would have painted them really clumsily, thus showing us the inner monsters we all wrestle with. Indeed standing in front of some of them you even feel as if there is a real person there who
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Chris has a B.A. in Painting from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London (1977-81), and an M.A. in History of Art from Birkbeck College, University of London (1988-90). At the Slade, where he was taught by Patrick George and Euan Uglow, he received the Monnington prize (1979) and the Taylor prize in Fine Art (1981) and he was awarded a Distinction in the History of Art examination by Professor Sir Lawrence Gowing. Having studied both painting and art history he now teaches both at Heatherley’s. He says: “There is probably some connection between studying past art and producing art now, but although it is not straightforward I do find this dual focus of my work interesting. Each aspect is revealing about the other, sometimes in ways which cannot be articulated.”
At Heatherleys, Chris ran the Open Studio from 1986-96, he now teaches painting on the Diploma in Portraiture, and organises and delivers the art history programme of lectures.
Having studied Italia