Mature Times - Painting

Website brings art lovers and artists together

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:20:09 +0000

Spotting and acquiring quality, original art from up and coming artists can mean endless hours spent in art galleries – or just a few minutes in front of your computer screen. The website ArtGallery.co.uk has been set up to make the very best of original art accessible to everyone with an internet connection.

Relish the best of British watercolour painting

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:13:08 +0100

The short-listed artists have been selected for this year’s RWS/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition. Seven artists out of 1,500 who entered the competition have been short-listed for this coveted prize.

Over 60? Then get creative and win the chance to exhibit in central London!

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:27:41 +0100

For the last ten years, the Elderly Accommodation Counsel (EAC) have been celebrating and promoting the work of older people through their prestigious Over 60s Art Awards competition, which offers amateur artists nationwide the chance to exhibit their work at the Bankside Gallery in London - near the Tate Modern. And this year journalist and broadcaster Joan Bakewell will be acting as a judge for the competition and also presenting the prizes.

Cancer sufferer wins world art award

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 19:58:23 +0000

A 69-year-old Briton has won second place in the prestigious international "Lilly Oncology on Canvas: Expressions of a Cancer Journey" international art competition. She received her award from HRH The Duke of Gloucester at the Royal College of Art.

Making original art accessible to all

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 20:23:22 +0100

Betweem October 19th-22nd 2006 over 125 galleries will be joining forces at The Affordable Art Fair to make original art more accessible and fun, with paintings, sculpture, photography and original prints, all priced at under £3,000.

France celebrates the father of modern art

Sun, 01 Oct 2006 14:43:13 +0100

The father of modern art died one hundred years ago this October, and the town where he was born is celebrating his genius. Albeit belatedly.

For a long time Paul Cezanne was far from being Aix-en-Provence’s favourite son. “Aix has been very slow to recognise his achievements,” said my ‘Cezanne Trail‘ guide Yannick, as we stood in front of the statue only recently erected in the painter’s honour.

Get out those brushes!

Fri, 01 Oct 2004 07:42:08 +0100

Phillip Glynn concludes his thoughts on why every one of us can paint.

I can’t paint!

Wed, 01 Sep 2004 07:42:08 +0100

In the first of two articles, Philip Glynn, attacks a popular myth.