Seascapes and Surprises Unfold – Landscape Artist of the Year – S05 EP6 – Art Documentary

In this episode of Landscape Artist of the Year, talented artists brave the coastal elements in Plymouth, vying for a £10,000 commission. With unpredictable weather and captivating views, they race against the clock to create their masterpieces. Join the artists, judges, and wild cards in their quest for creative glory along the West Country coastline.

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Artists from across the nation, both seasoned and novice, converge on iconic locations to capture their essence on canvas. Amidst the backdrop of wildlife, historic edifices, and landmarks, they race against time, vying for the approval of discerning judges. While episode winners progress to subsequent rounds, up to 50 wildcard artists per location also hope to dazzle the judges. Their aim? A coveted spot in the grand final and the title of Landscape Artist of the Year.

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[Music] welcome Ahoy and a vast from  Plymouth Devon’s historic Maritime City   for centuries Plymouth has harbored  ocean-going explorers Buccaneers and   Pirates today it’s a wash with artists  all swashbucklers hoping to sail off   with the prize chivalry Timbers it’s  Sky Arts landscape artist of the year throughout this series we’re visiting some  

Of Britain’s most enchanting  and exciting scenery [Music] I’m always drawn to the Sea for some reason I  get seasick so it makes it doesn’t make any sense   48 talented artists are charged  with capturing these Sensational   views as they strive for Creative Glory [Music] [Music]   and Emma Lord [Music]  

If I wasn’t here I’d be doing my day job I’m  a secondary school teacher teach art so I’d   be a teaching year eight in the next half an  hour I’m feeling pretty nervous if I’m honest   joining them are five professionals pavilizopov  Lisa Takahashi Paula Mitchell Mike Skinner  

Tony Parsons I haven’t had any sleep at all  I went to bed and I stared at the ceiling   and then I got up again I’m buzzing I’ve got lots  of caffeine in me and that should see me through   the artists are all competing for  a ten thousand pound commission to  

Paint the Venetian Vista in honor of the  eminent Victorian art critique John Ruskin   to be in with the chance of taking the top prize  our artists must impress our three exacting judges   fleen Soriano Kate Bryan and taishan shirenberg it’s good to have a time limit really  because I think I’m getting starting to  

Get fiddly I hope you’ve got the  smallest brush out have you yeah yeah also hoping to impress the judges at every  heat are a further 50 artists are wild cards I never never work on canvas it’s always metal  it’s either bike tanks bikes bike motorbike tanks

One of them will definitely win the  competition the other one works wow   that’s awful well so the choice is yours  don’t make the wrong decision yeah brilliant While the eight artists settle  into their pods and each select   their composition the judges review  their qualifying online submissions well judges here we are by the sea this is  someone who loves water yeah I think it has  

A sort of Rich old-fashioned green and pleasant  England to it and I think it lives off the water   and the reflection on the water and the way that  bit of blue just pops as it sort of Echoes the sky this is a rather ferocious picture  isn’t it I think what I really like  

About it is the sky immediately makes me  think of someone like Turner and then you   see that what’s leading you to the sky  these really brutal electricity pylons   foreign artist is fascinated in car tracks in  the snow and they’ve done it in a very naive but  

Believable way you just wonder with this scene  of emptiness what actually has gone on [Music]   they’ve got a great composition alive I love that  combination of the Contemporary on the cliff above   the building and the historic down below so that  mashing up of the Two Worlds that we see so much  

In English seasides [Music] they’ve retained a  kind of strong sense of understanding composition   of color I love the way with Lino Cuts where  you often get a bit of the ink falling out of   the frame of the canvas and you can see there’s  lovely sort of bands of orange on the far right  

Hand side I think one of the things I like about  it is that the seagull gets better treatment than   the people [Music] it seems that the whole  landscape has been made out of accidents in  

A sense the way the paint runs the way it pools  which is very beautiful I’m seeing how would the   artists deal with a landscape like today will make  certain decisions and can they work with accidents

I love the way in which they’ve dealt with the  rain in this foreground you can just sense the   wetness of the city and the Twilight sort  of coming down these little pops of red   with their brake lights of the cars observed  so well the third of the paintings taken up  

With this sand strewn path that we’re standing  on and this beautiful pile of clothes in the   corn on the right you know is reminiscent of  early French painting it’s got a lot of art   historical knowledge in it but above all  very well painted we’ve got a variety of  

Weathers in all these submissions it remains  to be seen what they make of today’s weather artists we hope this view floats your  boat because the challenge is about to   begin you have four hours to complete  your artwork and your time starts now [Music]  

Our artist’s first challenge is deciding which  part of this panoramic Vista to paint [Music]   looking out across Plymouth sound The prominent  Landmark is Drake’s Island as well as a constant   Fleet of vessels from the smallest of  pleasure craft to colossal cargo ships

So what we’ve given our artists today is  part of a long British art tradition you   know the Seascape or Marine painting you’ve got  a fantastic foreground middle ground and distance   with a little island you’ve got a wonderful sea  that’s really calm at the moment but has a lot of  

Intricacies and complexity to the surface of  it and if they’re not interested in the seed   they’ve only got to look over to the right hand  side and you’ve got that lovely Little Harbor so   we’ve given our artists A quintessential British  scene in quintessentially British weather first  

Impressions are it’s deceptively tricky obviously  there’s a limited color palette at the moment but   obviously if the weather changes then the color  palette will change it’s still nice even though   it’s not great weather I think I’ll make something  of it The View I’m really happy with quite a nice  

Kind of letterbox shape as the rain is starting  to clear it’s looking really interesting [Music]   Paula I noticed that you’re wearing the same  colors that you’ve started your oil sketching it   wasn’t planned at all I didn’t think I was going  to get to wear this jacket but they’re your go-to  

Colors presumably I do tend to use purple as the  like the darker shade so even if it’s dark green   I tend to use dark purple Paula Mitchell from  Portsmouth divides her time between working   as a freelance graphic designer and painting  particularly keen on capturing seascapes her  

Submission of ride Beach on the Isle of Wight was  painted in oils on a scorching bank holiday you’ve   started off here with a fantastic composition I  mean how did you land on on that arrangement I  

Always try and find something that has a strong  structure so it has a lead-in so your eye gets   drawn around the picture but you’ve been quite  Brave you’ve given yourself quite a big expanse of  

C which I know is what we see in front of us but  you could have gone a little bit closer it seems   like a huge expanse but there’s a lot of color  differences there’s a lot of texture differences  

I’ve got the currents on the stock of the water  which I can use as a mechanism to lead you into   the painting great well good start nice size nice  composition lovely colors I hope so hahaha [Music]  

So you don’t make any sketches you’re straight in  there with the paint brushes I do a rough blocking   trying to find a pattern of light and dark which  is quite difficult because of the weather but no   pencils no charcoal just straight in paint yeah  brushes fingers doesn’t really matter yeah yeah  

I use fingers sometimes yeah just to block  in really foreign ton amateur artists James   merch paints Plein Air as often as possible his  depiction of a local boating Lake painted in all   its spring Splendor took nine hours to complete  requiring numerous trips to capture [Music]  

What do you think about this kind of gray Seascape  we’ve given you um what about if the sun came out   better or worse if it stays more or less like  this I’ll be okay I think but sometimes the sun  

Coming out can give you just what you need to  kind of interest in there talk us through why   does it make it make your painting more Punchy  if there’s more light and shade because in your   submission the greens are very varied and your  paint actually gets very very sick this is what  

Happens the color gets stronger and the paint  gets thicker is this what we’re looking forward   to well yeah I try and um focus a lot on color  and I suppose naturally you do get more of an   impassive effect well it’s early days but  uh you’ve got lots of nice Grays on it yeah Her Seascape well not least that you’ve come  with a Lino cut yes now you’ve arrived with   a lot of equipment so here’s obviously the  cutting equipment yeah what’s going on with   all this stuff here the mirror is where I ink up  it’s a bit of a good luck charm and I’ve also got  

Um a box of pretty much junk but to me it’s  treasure I’ll squeeze out the ink and roll it   onto these things like this wallpaper for example  is my favorite for Sky to see Lisa Takahashi made  

It to the semi-final of landscape artist of the  year 2018 as a winning wild card with her oil   painting of broadstairs in Kent this year’s  submission is a view of padstow Harbor made   by Lino cut a technique she’ll also be using  today [Music] the first process is cutting the  

Liner yes where how are you going to do that  here yes so basically with Lino Cuts I start   by carving the Payless color and then I will  print that layer so that printing will start   quite early on and then I carve away even  more and then print color most of the day  

Will be spent carving here and every now and then  I’ll Whip over here and ink up and print [Music] also embracing the Dank day on foggy  Plymouth hoe is a veritable Armada of   50 artists our wild cards all vying for  the chance of a place in the semi-final  

Their View today is the eye-catching  Lighthouse smeaton’s Tower roster isn’t it [Music]   this completed picture I’m just going to put a  gray mess on it and it’ll be finished [Music]   [Applause] thank you that is brilliant  already that Sky’s turner-esque thank you despite the sea fog hindering  their view of Drake’s Island  

One of our eight competitors  has rapidly seized the scene I’ve got the island that’s quite  key everything else is kind of up   for grabs so I’ve got boats coming past and  they’re going to create ripples so that’s   big slashed lines across the composition  and I’m going to use those to point at the  

Interesting things the island the Headlands  so very much the boat’s removable feast a professional artist based in Brighton Tony  Parsons favorite subjects to paint are the   city’s victoriana including this lift on a local  Beach which took him just 90 minutes to complete

You look like you’ve almost finished and we’re  less than an hour or two canvases I thought maybe   you double booked yourself now the idea is to  go fast and have expressive strikes once I’ve  

Made all the decisions put as much as I need to  say what I want to say and no more um I I really   hate overworking uh-huh um a painting so you  go speed and then you bring in a second one to  

Stop you ever working is speed and Chaos yeah  and then try and Chip happiness out the chaos   one hour into the challenge and as varied as the  views today so too are the artists interpretations we’ve chosen to avoid the building I wanted just  one statement of composition really otherwise it  

Can start getting very fussy and that’s what  I was that’s what I was worried about really   it’s going to have to have a quiet nobleness  to it isn’t it that Island in order to beat   everyone else here don’t you think you do  want to win didn’t you impossible yeah yeah  

I mean it’s it’s about the color for me it  doesn’t really matter what the subject is   I’m going to cut the architecture out of the  Lino sort of decorative elements of detail yeah   okay I’m looking forward to seeing those little  Windows popping I like to think that you spend  

The first 10 minutes putting the art in and then  the next two hours knocking the art back out of it   that’s when I’ll take the canvas off and I’ll put  another one on and try again it might be better  

It might be worse [Music] here on the Headland  at Plymouth hoe our artists are approaching the   second hour of their four hour challenge with one  artist navigating a free-flowing medium [Music]   the painting alcohol inks some ink in an alcohol  base rather than a water base I use gravity I use  

A heat gun and I use a hair dryer to manipulate  the inks around the canvas so it comes up with   some really interesting shapes and blends of  color so it’s completely unique I’m not always   100 sure exactly what it’s going to do head of  art is a secondary school in Preston Emma Lord  

Has been using this distinctive technique for  the past four years to create semi-abstract   Landscapes like her submission of the light  falling through trees in the forest of Bowland there’s very little drawing there so  I mean in your mind’s eye do you know  

What the composition that is I know that  that the headline is going to be coming   through and just gradually getting darker as  I come forward it is a matter of layering so   I’ll do another layer and then I’ll mask  out some areas of that that I want to keep  

That color can you see the finished work in  your mind no not really oh can you see it   the steps that you’re going to take yeah  yeah I have like a little bit of a process  

In my mind but at the same time there’s quite  a lot of areas which are not under my control   so there’s a little bit of serendipity  involved in it as well [Music] thank you so you’re quite far along when you’re working  your watercolors that’s quick well that sort  

Of style where it’s impression is impressionistic  but as you’re not there to State what’s going on   yeah and more concerned with tones than core  the different scales are gray really you’ve   got perfectly gray you’ve got greedy gray back to  purple watercolor is Stephen Rigby from merseyside  

Works all over the country as a water treatment  engineer but his submission of Liverpool’s liver   building in his favorite muted palette is a  subject he regularly returns to tell me about   this pooling here at the bottom the sort of very  almost like symbolist rising smokiness from it  

Do you think that will stay or will you sort of  move a lot of that away over the course of the   day I’ve seen a couple of figures before swimming  canoe knowing and I’ll use them to bring the eye  

Around there’s the danger isn’t there that it  can flip into being a bit too kitschy sometimes   how do you hold keep it back so he’s not knowing  when to start it’s not we went to stop but at the  

Moment there’s telling you to keep on going yeah  oh yeah great it’s a long way to go yeah [Music]   so things are looking up the sun’s coming out  it’s a very different proposition actually quite  

Warm I was this morning I was freezing there was  nothing to paint the sky and the Sea were won and   I couldn’t see either of the Headlands there  and I could just about discern that that was  

An island or some lump of gray in the middle so  yeah it’s looking good it’s looking much better   for our artists and there’s a lot to paint  I know one artist has used the opportunity   of a rather large boat came across and sort  of splitting it from the water and creating  

Sort of current I’ve got to be careful with  boats though because your twiometer goes off   the scale very easily it does indeedy yeah um  uh I I haven’t seen any tree boats though okay   good that’s these incredibly flat it’s tough  to paint no you’re the artist what would you  

Do if you’re painting that well look it’s about  creating an interesting composition here the   colors are starting to pop out the headland’s  a beautiful color the island is a beautiful   structures the trees and the buildings on  it so there’s a lot to work with and you  

Know paintings about using contrast so with all  this detail you know you need a bit of flat C to   work against it I’m very difficult to please  I’d be happy painting this empty space here  

It’s so flatter it’s gonna be very hard to stop  Joan going jet skiing later I want to see that [Music] meanwhile keeping watch at  the Lighthouse are our 50 wild cards   you’ve decided to paint it when it was quite  overcast the sun’s come out will you change  

The sky if you change the sky it affects the  light and the way that it hits everything so   then I’d kind of have to redo the light on  everything so I might try and stick to the   moodier landscape which is what I prefer  really anyway good luck thank you so much  

You’ve got all the sort of the natural forms  in haven’t you with the island and the cliff   in the background nice use of that in the  foreground as well but you’ve also put some   boats in were they actually there I promise you  they were okay there’s one there now look oh yeah

So Richard um we brought you up to the top of  this uh Bluff yes overlooking the Sea The Bay   the lighthouse and the gloriousness of the  English Coastline indeed you’re painting a   road in the opposite direction it is not  to be accurate it’s the car park can I  

Ask you why oh because the only thing I  could see this morning because the Mist   was everywhere there’s some interesting  things there but there were some lovely   puddles and the reflections were great this  morning so I just thought do you use the  

Expression lovely puddles I like lovely  robots Okay fair fair enough fair enough this is this island here easy yeah and then  this here is this apparently it’s Cornwall over   here thrilling thank you very much I hope you’re  enjoying it I am I’m loving it having a great day  

Not all our competitors have been Charmed by the  Sea View with one of our eight artists focusing   his attention in a different direction Pavel  we’ve given you this wide open scene here the   bay the distant clouds and you’ve decided to paint  a little corner of the harbor when I saw the view  

I was actually really excited because I’m drawn  very much to the geometry of the open landscape   and having this kind of a curvature of this road  going down it’s almost like it’s sculpted these   forms the little houses kind of embedded into a  rock I think about really caught my imagination  

Youngest painter in today’s heat Pavel isopov  has just graduated in fine art from Edinburgh   University his submission in oils of tire tracks  in the snow was painted from a photograph taken   on an evening walk through the Edinburgh suburbs  well your submission about shape and you’ve really  

Found these really interesting shapes here women  we don’t actually see the sky in this composition   at all do we yeah I actually quite frequently like  to crop the sky out um I like to dip below the  

Horizon but what we also got from your submission  is a great sense of sort of narrative or mystery   or atmosphere is that what drives the painting  really yes yeah of course it’s important to get  

The kind of a sentiment of a place right I’m  gonna not put in any cars or any kind of little   benches which I quite enjoy the almost like the  loneliness of the space because it was quite a   lonely morning yeah it looked like because it  was raining not many people about so [Music]  

My work is slightly dystopian I’m trying  to sort of get underneath the landscape in   a way to the bone structure and describe  it in a modern way hopefully that works   Mike Skinner from Stroud switched from being  a professional commercial artist the one who  

Could choose what he wanted to paint industrial  landscapes his submission of rain and marshes   in Essex was completed in his signature  mix of acrylics Biro and permanent marker   you’re really not afraid of different mediums not  all so what have you put down so far today we’ve  

Got paint on the board of pencil colored pencil by  a row what would you say the focal point here is   I think once this Bay has some energy everything  will spin off that tell me what you mean I want  

To sort of describe the energy today as it’s kind  of changing a movie so would that be through color   or it’s pretty dramatic movement yeah and how  is it experimenting Outdoors like this are you   normally Outdoors I’m quite a fair weather kind  of guy right today’s been quite challenging you  

Could tell my voice has gone we’re gonna have to  toughen you up we need a bit more outdoor paint our artists are nearly halfway through their   challenge with crucial equipment  failing under pressure maybe it’s a burnishing my print and as a result the the Bamboo  

Leaf is now fraying so I’m now having  to use Plan B which is the metal spoon and there are concerns about  artistic decisions already made   maybe I’ve tried to include too  much it’s really tricky if I can get  

A day even if maybe some things are not a  little off I’d be happier with that [Music] working on the more dramatic colors  that we’ve got with that big boat   that came through not so long ago yeah  although to be honest it came through  

So fast I can’t remember these  I should have photographed uh-oh [Music]   I’ve put another canvas on the easel  I feel a bit like the kid in an exam   that’s finished an hour or two before  everyone else and I was sort of thinking   what are they doing that I’ve missed [Music]

Our eight artists are two hours  into their four hour challenge   to capture the picturesque West country coastline [Music]   at this halfway stage of the competition what  do the judges think of our artist’s progress so we’re at the seaside and often when you’re  by the Sea you contend with a lot of different  

Weather it makes it interesting for them  doesn’t it it does it makes it difficult   too though because they start off with this Misty  mysterious place and as the days gone on it sort   of revealed itself to them James’s submission  suggested this would be an ideal landscape for  

Him is it turning out that way I think James made  the right choice with that composition but I do   think it’s looking a bit flat at the moment I mean  James’s seasoned Plein Air painter he knows what  

He’s doing but I think the brush marks in a funny  way and this painting are too big but we’re only   halfway through so I think and it will be more  realistic as the day wears on Emma is over there   applying paint heating it it’s crackling and  spitting it’s like painting meets welding what  

I’m worried about at the moment is that she’s  starting to create something that’s feeling a   little bit sort of catchy I think using the inks  she does it the colors are very strong and so a  

Green is a green a blue is a blue it becomes a  very obvious type of that color and I think maybe   through the process you’ll be able to sort of  make them blend a bit more into the light of today  

Toadie has painted one picture and he’s on to  his second I mean I think Tony might have over   painted his first picture he was so quick and  I thought this would be great because we won’t  

Have something too heavy he’ll keep this sort of  avacity go onto a second canvas and when I look   at the first canvas there on the floor I think  he did put too much down I’m hoping he learns  

A lesson for that for the second one Pavel has  zoomed in on what interests him yeah man-made   landscape yeah Pavel found the curve takes us in  very beautifully and he’s still giving us a bit of   nature but he doesn’t like to paint anything that  doesn’t have some sense of you know Humanity or  

The man-made in it and he’s very clever painting  exactly what is in front of him but slightly to   the right Lisa has all sorts of processes going  on all these different methods she’s using she’s   very busy yeah Lisa’s work isn’t as Punchy as a  submission but she’s playing a very difficult game  

It’s a reduction Lino cut we will only see the  final print at the end of the day when there’s   nothing left of the Lino she’s cutting out so I’m  kind of excited but also worried as hell but more  

To play for and let’s see how the weather changes  things could change very quickly foreign [Music]   I’ve been panicking quite a lot I’ve  just noticed that I should have Inked   up some of the windows black and the thing  is with this printmaking you don’t know how  

It’s going to be until the very last call  and so you know I’m sort of in the dark a   little bit about whether it’s going to  be a good print or a bad print [Music]   thank you [Music] how is the changing weather  affected you one minute’s it’s cloudy and overcast  

The next one is blue sky yeah it’s actually  helped a bit because I was struggling to find   values and as the Suns come out it’s put a bit  more color into it I tend to have an emphasis  

On color so it has helped I think if it was the  other way around it would have been a problem thank you have you like to take what  reality has given you yeah and you   like to put it through your own imagination  your own filter absolutely I anticipated for  

Changing light so I decided to go for an  experimental color palette which will give   me room to to maneuver right if the sun  came out all of a sudden yeah I’m really   trying to capture the Stillness of this  road very a Serene nature of it foreign

There’s one question I’m forced to ask right  away go on then when you’ve done the painting   as good as this yeah why have you moved on to a  second one primarily everything changed oh that   started quite Moody and then the light lifted  massively and the tide went out because cardinal  

Sin is chasing the light yeah and I felt I was  coming up to the borderline where I ruination lay the viewer artists are painting today  features plymouth’s historic Drakes Island   in the late 19th century Drake’s Island  was part of a huge military construction  

Project whose ruins still haunt The  Island today [Music] 1060 and a time   of great instability on Mainland Europe with a  resurgent french navy threatening British Waters   thank you to combat this a series of forts named  Palmerston forts after the then prime minister  

Was built along the south coast and specially  constructed to house a new generation of armaments if you went from having Wooden Ships made  with pitch and tar which you could attack with   cannonballs that have been heated to parsley set  them on fire they now became Iron clad artillery  

Technology was moving on as well so a bigger  more powerful guns the new defenses consisted of   concrete gun ports called casemates wrapped around  the south of the island [Music] the Palmerston   forts were the largest and most expensive  construction project of 19th century Britain  

The guns here were never tested as the century  Drew to a close a devastating new form of land   Warfare loomed on the horizon with the Palmerston  forts eventually renamed palmerston’s Follies [Music]   further along the Headlands time is nearly up  for our 50 weathered wildcards with the judges  

Selecting just one to go forward to begin  with a Chance of making it to the semi-final It’s been a good day funnily enough being by  the seaside I think this happens quite a lot   when it gets Sunny the cliches of the seaside  start popping up in the paintings and really   good paintings are so tips there’s been so  much potential here I really like the lady  

Who made most of the picture her umbrella is  a young woman who’s painted the lighthouse   from early this morning and it’s grubby and it’s  gloomy and it’s sort of got a strange narrative   yeah and it’s the banks of color are sort of  really abstract in a way but they believe the  

Level of complexity of the greens in there  for example I really like that one yeah yeah hello hello you are a wild card winner I am absolutely serious Beth euglow from Truro  will enter a pool of wild card winners from  

All the Heats at the end of which one will  be selected for a place in the semi-final it’s great the lady sat next to me said she’s coming  this way and I was like no no no no   oh just shock absolute shock I feel  amazing I feel completely blown away  

I’m just gonna go home and try and wrap my  head around what’s just happened I think but for our artists looking out  over Drake’s Island it’s all about   those final artistic flurries as the  competition reaches its concluding r with the pressure on reassurance from  a loved one is sought what do you think

I might put boat in they always go on about how   Twee boats are and I don’t know so I  don’t know where there’s two others I used to have a little cottage behind  that headland um there’s a two little  

Fishing villages that you can’t see let’s pop  it in there you go oh my Cottage Joan was here I really kind of want to keep  that ethereal gray qualities   of the landscape and yeah I actually am  enjoying Rihanna’s lyrics today [Music]  

Get to a point where you’re happy with it and  which takes a long time but it can take maybe a   second to do something that can take half an hour  to fit so I want to try and avoid that foreign artists have just minutes left to  complete their Marine masterpieces

But for one artist it’s decision  time and one they’re not making alone   what do you reckon gang which one come on  [Music] artists you have five minutes left five minutes left and begins to fiddle so I’m actually quite  pleased there’s five minutes left [Music]  

With what you’ve done I’ve forced myself  to stop because the lights change too much   about as far as I can go with it really I think  I’ll know in a few days whether it’s all right [Music]  

I think I’ve been looking at it too long now  packing up now well you’ve got somewhere to be   yeah tomorrow how are you so we tell the judges  to get on with it yeah that’d be nice [Music]   it feels like I’m sort of teetering on  the edge of either success or disaster Artists your time is up please put down  your utensils and stand away from your work with our artist’s work complete it’s time for our   judges to assess the finished  seascapes [Applause] [Music]   I was very concerned that James would  overwork this but I mean you still even  

See the raw canvas coming through in the  sky that was there this morning I think   the cool tones of the water in the sky  against these kind of very warm Earth   patches of paint it’s almost sort of shiny and  Luscious all hangs together very nicely [Music]  

It’s a fantastic technique and  all credit to her for sort of   having discovered it the sky and  the water are extremely beautiful foreign the dark blue receding land I don’t  love the tiny little details in the   foreground of the water this is the  second of his two I think he took  

A public vote asked everyone to decide  which one he should put forward [Music]   I find a scene incredibly moving powerful it has  absolutely captured the atmosphere that he was   trying to capture this morning about the sort  of the desolate corner of some forgotten Harbor

See she’s doing a Charming shorthand particularly  there with all the detail on the on the Promenade   we really do feel like we’re headed far out to  sea with those clouds [Music] what I really like   about Mike’s work is this sort of bird’s eye view  that we have and this wonderful sort of vignette  

Here and this thrusting frigate or whatever  it is coming into view on the left hand side I really like Paula’s sense of composition the sky  is fantastic I think the Headland and the islands   are beautifully done the water I have a problem  with I can see she was trying to do something  

The Dynamics of the currents but it looks like  it’s not a flat surface it looks like it’s folded   foreign I love the little attention to detail  there’s a tiny little set of stairs there which   absolutely adorable it’s really convincing  and it’s sort of sense of depth and scale

[Music] the judges can only pick one artist to  send through to the semi-final to help their   decision making they start by reducing  the selection to a short list of three I see three who are very realistic or traditional  in a sense funnily enough this larger one doesn’t  

Do very much for me so I almost think this  counter-intuitively has got this kind of real   zoomed in sense of real scale I like the serenity  that some of them captured actually but that one  

For me is of course it really well I do think for  me it’s these two um that one very nice top three artists we commend you all on the remarkable  artwork you’ve achieved today but of course   this is a competition and the judges can  only select three artists to shortlist  

The first artist the judges have selected is James merch the second artist on the short list is Lisa Takahashi the third artist is Pavel isopov our commiserations to the rest of  you but your talent of enthusiasm   has kept us enthralled all day  so thank you very much for coming

I’m up from their shortlist the judges  must now select just one winner to help   them they take into consideration the  selected artists submission artworks what variety you’ve given us in your short list  today you’d be hard-pressed to recognize that  

James and Pavel have painted the same place and  Lisa’s work is in a completely different medium   be a great exhibition wouldn’t it yeah so how do  you come to this list they’ve all found their own  

Little corners or excerpts of the view that we had  and given us a real sense of the bit of Plymouth   hoe that they experienced today James in his  submission gave us a lot of green with a bit  

Of water today we’ve got a lot of water with  a bit of green very consistent and you know   the brush marks are put down a very similar way  and you know and he’s kind of getting away with  

Murder with those big dashes of blue to delineate  this blue sky that we had I mean it’s convincing   although it’s you know really quick what we have  a lot of today is Sky Pavel has avoided that  

Harvard chose to concentrate a corner of a busy  Port town and when he looked down this morning   there was nothing going on and I like the fact  that he grasped that as something poignant and   worth painting and he’s kept it with his signature  style you know but that wonderful curve he was  

Looking for that shape right from the very start  and he found it naturally in the landscape Lisa   gave us this very brightly colored padstow scene  today she’s altered Her Style I thought what she   did with the houses is really sweet and it’s got a  charm that’s certainly there in the submission but  

Here you know I see a sense of her but I just see  her showing us that she’s got a lot of range and   that’s really encouraging well you’ve got three  stars of painting processes and outcomes so you  

Deciding will be a real problem it’s a lovely  problem we like having as judges really [Music] each one of you has impressed the  judges but then only one Camille winner   the artists who will be going  through to the semi-final is [Music]   James merch

I feel amazing to win a bit dazed and it  feels kind of surreal massive confidence   boost really means a lot it means that  I could potentially justify spending a   lot more time painting and less time working

James is really exciting to watch today because  he was able to give us a sense of distance there   was a real energy in the paint marks they were  believable but there was such brevity he didn’t  

Need to put much down he was masterful at telling  us the sun came out with that one blue dash in the   sky so I’d like to see more of that I hope he’s as  confident today if not more so in the semi-final Thank you [Music] foreign