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
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All of the artists were so good! I wouldn't have been able to narrow them down to three. 😀
I liked the 1st painting the guy did more than the second. I thought his paintings were great.
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This is how I await the New Year…
James was deserving enough. No problem. Too much confidence for Tony. His first piece was a better choice of entry. Too bad. He is a good artist.
I disagree with every one of the judges choices. Art is subjective but they appear to have missed the subject.
As an landscape artist i can not grasp how fast Tony can paint and still make it so realistic. What a gift he has. Also my favorite painting of them all.
Lord, I can’t believe they say.. this took 9 hrs or a day. I spend at least a month or more on one painting.
(16:52) This is my favourite entry. I love cityscapes and the absolute utter dreariness of cities in the rain, with cars bleeding into the pavement and the oppressiveness of a sky full of dishwater… this is SO beautifully done.
Yah, it's "Funnily enough…" not "Funny enough," …Tai, listen to Kate. She has it.
Grazie per aver postato questo, amo la pittura di paesaggio e osservare gli artisti mentre dipingono è emozionante
I do under painting to get more depth. In my humble(ha!) opinion, one may start off with a photo or plein air… Then the magic starts to happen.. The real art begins when your work comes from the soul and it is poetry in its own right.
To deem art as a product negates itself.
Vermeer did 30+ in his life.
Leonardo worked on the Mona Lisa until his dying day.
I wish the judges wouldn’t go round the artists making negative comments while they work.