New Award For Tim Benson

Tim's painting of a woman with a facial disfigurement has won the 'Arts Club Charitable Trust Award'at this year's annual exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters at the Mall Galleries. The show runs for a further week until  24/05/13 with late opening (until 7pm) on 23/05/13. For more details please click on the following link: http://www.therp.co.uk/society/exhibitions/

Tim Benson was recently elected Vice President of the ROI

New Exhibition For Naomi Alexander R.O.I.

Naomi Alexander has a new exhibition at the Shipley Art Gallery Gateshead opening on June 1. It will be opened by the Lithuanian Ambassador, Tom Butler former Bishop of Southwark and Professor Aubrey Newman.

New Exhibition For ROI President Ian Cryer

New ROI President Ian Cryer is currently exhibiting 65 new paintings of Exmoor at the Churchgate Gallery Porlock Somerset TA 24 5UA until June 1st. Titled "A Year on Exmoor" the show can be seen online at www.churchgategallery.co.uk. Ian Cryer spent last year exploring the contrasting landscape of this area of outstanding natural beauty, painting the rugged moorland and sheltered valleys as well as the life, work and sporting activities of the area. This is Ian's second one man show in West Somerset and the first first specifically of Exmoor.

New President For The ROI

At the ROI's AGM on tuesday 30th April Ian Cryer formally took over the role of President of the ROI from Peter Wileman .

He will be joined by Tim Benson as Vice President, Ian said " I am delighted to be able to serve this wonderful Victorian British Art Society with a long proud tradition and help guide it into the information age with all the opportunities new technology has to offer. We can connect like never before with a wider and wider audience as witnessed by the rapidly increasing number of people who now send in to our Annual Open Exhibition via the digital submission. I will be posting regular updates about ROI events on the blog an

Tim Benson Painting At Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition

Tim Benson ROI will be showing this painting of a woman with a facial disfigurement at this year's annual exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters at the Mall Galleries from 09/05/13-24/05/13. For more details please click on the following link: http://www.therp.co.uk/society/exhibitions/

Keep on Keeping On

ROI President Peter Wileman just got the following update from Susan Edwards a Friend of the ROI. It makes interesting reading and  gives you an insight into what the ROI does to help encourage artists who paint in oils.

"I was really pleased to have a painting selected for the ROI 2012 show.  The first time I submitted a while back, two of my paintings came back with the sticker ‘This narrowly missed selection, please submit next year’.

That small scrap of positive feedback got pinned to the studio wall, for whenever I needed encouragement for the inner conviction of the direction my work was developing in.

Thanks ROI!

Also have you noticed it too – recent ROI Previews and Events have got a new buzz about them. There’s such a great mix of experienced artist and young bloods. After decades, figurative painters  are back stronger than ever with exciting, innovative work, built on traditional foundations!

Respect!!

Visit my blog for the First Instalment of my diary of plein air painting adventures as Artist in Residence in 2012 on a 4 month World Cruise! "

http://susanedwardsoilpainter.blogspot.co.uk

Award For This Blog

On the last day of 2012 I was pleased to hear that this blog has won the Making A Mark Award for the art society blog of the year. That's great news for all the ROI members who supply the news and pictures about their activities throughough the year. On behalf of all members - thank you Making A Mark

You can read  more about the award here: http://makingamark.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/generating-art-making-mark-awards-2012.html