Wow, Open Art is such a wonderful exhibition, it always inspires me to go off and create something, but also makes me really proud of all the local artists sat at kitchen tables, walking around our fields and countryside and parks to take pictures, sewing away on sofas and painting in their gardens all year round to create art. How great is it that we get to see all this? It takes courage to exhibit your artwork and to open yourself up to praise and comments, so it is important to say well done to everyone who exhibited.
This year I made some changes to the exhibition including adding new categories and adding a critical vote to the usual popular vote.
Here are the results....
There were two votes this year; a critical vote which took place on Friday 21st October with Joe Hesketh, a Pendle based professional artist, Richard Dyson, owner of Dysons Arts in Barrowford and myself choosing first and second place in each category.
Young Artist Aged 7 and Under
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| 2nd Place Sophie Wilkinson Royal Horse |
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| 1st Place Louis Gillett At the beach By the way, Louis is only 2 years old! Can't wait to see what the future holds for this budding photograher! |
Young Artist Aged 8-11 years
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| 2nd Place Harry Wilkinson Fly the Sheepdog |
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| 1st Place Sam Rose Prison Monster Can I just add that I did not take part in the judging of the 8-11 year old group as my son and step-son had both entered pictures in this. And, my son won, above! Am massively proud mummy, although still quite distrubed about the subject matter he picked! |
Young Artist Aged 12-16 years
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| 2nd Place Lily Fontaine Iconic |
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| 1st Place Ruby Haworth Girls by the Piano The quality of this one was amazing; and the judges particularly liked the way Ruby had done the arms... |
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| Close Up Ruby Haworth |
Textile and 3D Works
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| 2nd Place Freda Reeves Wave |
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| 1st Place Kathryn Sutton Perfect Place And here is a close up of the details... |
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| Close up Kathryn Sutton The judges were very impressed with the textiles work, it has been a good category to display too and I am looking forward to keeping this category now. Kathryn above has been asked to discuss selling her work at Dysons Arts, and she was very pleased and surprised to win. Her whole family came with her to the presentation ceremony and they gave a collective gasp as she was announced. It was a lovely moment. |
Photography, Edited Section
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| 2nd Place David James Palm Tree |
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| 1st Place Graham Dean Setting for a Saucy Rendezvous If you like this one - Graham will actually be exhibiting here as part of our Christmas Exhibition which launches on the 21st November. |
Photography, Natural Section
(Bit embarrassing this, but I seem to have lost my pictures of this section! Sorry folks, but I managed to find replacement pics).
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| 2nd Place Heather Sheldrick The Walker |
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| 1st Place Paul Kirkup In the Spotlight |
Dear Kirsty, I was both surprised and thrilled to receive first place in the natural photography category as there were some very worthy contenders for that award on show. I'm especially pleased as I hold a candle for what old photographic equipment and techniques can achieve, and in this case I took the photo of my daughter in the tunnel in Victoria Park with a 50 year old basic snapshot camera which cost me £2 at a car boot sale, on cheap film from China and processed it in developer I made at home from 25 year old chemicals!! It was just a case of being in the right place at the right time with a camera in my hand.
Some other pictures I took with the same set up are here http://www.flickr.com/photos/borninyork/sets/72157623314741012/
The exhibition was splendid and I'm already looking forward to next years.
With kind regards and thanks for staging the event,
Paul Kirkup.
Portraiture Category (New)
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| 2nd Place with both works Richard Thorpe Pensieve |
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| 2nd Place both works Richard Thorpe Runners and Riders |
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| 1st Place both works Angela Britton Madonna and Child Little bit of info; Angela was last years overall winner with a portrait of Kylie. |
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| 1st Place both works Angela Britton Washed Up The portraiture category had a very strong presence and the judges thought both works by these artists were great. Ricahrd from Dysons Arts also asked that both artists contact him with regard to selling their work in his shop. How is that for a result? |
Landscapes Category (New)
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| 2nd Place Richard Stevens Eilean Donan Castle, Loch Duich |
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| 1st Place Mavis Nuttall Staines I do hope you all enjoyed the new categories and thought they worked out ok? Do let me know if you have any comments. |
Open Including Abstract
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| 2nd Place David Cumpstey Mussell Shells |
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| 1st Place Maureen Arnolds Astor Border While I am here, can I just say thanks to our marketing department for all their hard work on signs, layouts etc and a big thanks to our admin team for the labels. Doesn't it look lovely here? |
Pendle In Paint Category
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| 2nd Place Mavis Nuttall The Tackler, Bancroft Mill, Barnoldswick 1960's |
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| 1st Place John Rickard Nelson Street So that is the critical winners, the next post will be all about the popular winners. Ta Ra Kirsty |
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