Behind the Scenes: Haidee-Jo Summers VPROI RSMA
5th Dec 2024
Haidee-Jo Summers VPROI RSMA was the winner of the Le Clerc Fowle Medal at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition 2024, for an outstanding group of paintings.This includes a work painted from life in France while Summers taught at The Lady of the Chateau. Enjoy exploring behind the scenes of Dinner at the Chateau de Puy Vidal.While this beautiful work sold immediately, Summers
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From the Artist: Nina Pancheva
3rd Dec 2024
Nina Pancheva is a visual artist exhibiting at the ROI for the first time this year.'The painting ‘Realities’ began with finding a label—a label whose ingredients barely resemble food. This discovery provoked a series of questions, mainly about the tension between bread as both a symbol and a word, as well as between words and the meanings they convey. When, in fact, does bread stop being bre
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The History of Oils - Part Three
3rd Dec 2024
By Rupert MaasThis is the third part of an article from the FBA archives written by Rupert Maas in 2009.The Artist Explorer was generously funded by Foyle Foundation. Post-Impressionism In 1910 and 1912 the critic, Roger Fry, organised exhibitions of Post-Impressionism (a term which he coined) in London. They were received with shock and horror. Fry was intimately involved with the Bloom
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The History of Oils - Part Two
2nd Dec 2024
By Rupert MaasThis is the second part of an article from the FBA archives written by Rupert Maas in 2009.The Artist Explorer was generously funded by Foyle Foundation. Van Dyck brings oils to England It is through Rubens and his famous pupil van Dyck, both Dutchmen, that at last new ideas from Italy were introduced to England, and it was done with portraiture. The Royal court needed like
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