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00:00Hello, this is the truly impressive Wadsden Manor in Buckinghamshire.
00:17In just a moment, eight artists, a mix of amateur and professional, will attempt to paint one of Wadsden's most impressive views.
00:25They have just four hours to prove themselves to our three exacting judges.
00:30But only one of them will get through to the semi-finals.
00:33So put your feet up and get ready to enjoy some seriously good art.
00:37This is Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year.
00:42In our search to find the next great landscape artist, we've teamed up with the National Trust and they're letting us set up home in some of their most magnificent properties.
00:52Thousands applied, but only the best have been invited to paint some of the country's most outstanding scenery.
00:59Yeah, it's quite intense. I feel the time pressure actually.
01:02They're competing for a £10,000 commission to paint one of the National Trust's most celebrated views, Flatford in Suffolk, which will become part of its permanent collection.
01:14I'm kind of feeling a little stressed by it at the moment.
01:17Today, another eight have come to Wadsden Manor to impress.
01:21You can't afford to make mistakes because once it goes down, it's there forever.
01:25Watching their work closely along with the judges will be Margaret Jennings, who was an evacuee at Wadsden during the Second World War.
01:32She'll give an insight into her time here and, as a thank you for sharing her story, will take home her favourite painting.
01:39There's at least two I like.
01:41But our selected eight artists aren't the only ones wanting to catch the judge's eye.
01:46Fifty more from all over the British Isles are here to try their luck as a wild card.
01:51It's like a fairytale castle or something and I'm hoping that I can capture a little bit of its fantasy.
01:58But with only four hours to complete a compelling landscape.
02:02This is how I run my life, believe me.
02:04Who will judges Kathleen Soriano, Kate Bryan and Tyshan Scherenberg.
02:10Stop taking the paint off, put the paint on.
02:12Okay.
02:13Send through to the semi-final.
02:14Come on, man.
02:15Come on.
02:21Here to impress the judges today are professional artists Titus Agbara, Lucinda Metcalfe, Claire Hoard, Franny Sanders, Toby Mulligan and Paul Godem.
02:50I do a lot of competitions. I think the location's fantastic. This building is absolutely gorgeous. I can't wait to paint it.
02:57Also taking part are amateur artists Simon East and Jo Abbott.
03:02I slept awfully last night. My little one keeps waking me up in the middle of the night, which doesn't help.
03:06But yes, I was too excited and too thinking about all the things I might have forgotten or wanted to bring with me, make sure I'd got.
03:12Picked solely for their talent, the artists entered with a digital copy of their landscape.
03:21But today, the originals are on display for the judges to examine the finer details.
03:26When you see them here, what's your initial reaction?
03:30My initial reaction is the different textures of the paintings and how the paint's been applied.
03:34I mean, this one, I liked its painterliness and its inventiveness of mark making.
03:39Seeing it in the flesh, it looks a bit sort of, I don't know, it looks like it's been kicked around the studio floor.
03:45But it's definitely someone today that, given the conditions and this kind of overcast weather, could really pull something out of the bag.
03:54Now, this is really different, very different.
03:57But it is very simple.
03:59Don't rino cuts have to be simple?
04:01Well, I think there's a tradition that means that they're quite sort of graphic and reduced.
04:05But what is interesting about it is each decision has to be a conscious one and the artist has no leeway.
04:11So I kind of like the strictness of the medium and I'm looking forward to it.
04:16This is by someone who entered last year. I don't know whether you recognise his style.
04:21Is it palette knife Titus?
04:23It is indeed, it is indeed.
04:25I can't believe the detail.
04:27Yeah.
04:28It's got a nice movement through it.
04:30It looks like he's worked really hard to get that composition right.
04:34Wow, look at those roots.
04:36It's quite brave to just show you exactly what he sees.
04:39I'd always want to get the houses out of the view of the grand church.
04:43It would be interesting to see what he does with shrubs and trees as opposed to roofs and cathedrals.
04:54Today we're asking all our artists to face the same direction and complete a landscape of Wadston's parterre.
05:01Inspired by extravagant Victorian gardening techniques, it features carpet bedding, fountains and sculptures.
05:12Not a bad little back garden.
05:17A little bit flat at the moment but I'm hoping as the day goes on we're going to get more light and contrast happening.
05:22To be quite honest, I'm not that comfortable with the view.
05:25I would have preferred to have done the house.
05:27But you can't have everything, can you?
05:30Paul Gaden is a retired charter designer and today the only artist using watercolour.
05:37In his landscape of Canterbury, he wanted to capture the contrast between two storey houses and that of the 72 metre high cathedral.
05:45If you're working with watercolour, you can't afford to make mistakes because once it goes down, it's there forever.
05:50If you're using acrylic or oil, you can paint over it.
05:53This is permanent.
05:54So, I've got to plan it first.
05:56I've got to know exactly where everything's going so it's got to be drawn, it's got to be thought out and quite well planned.
06:00Artists, your challenge to paint the view of Wadston Manor Gardens is about to begin.
06:17You have four hours to complete your work, so good luck and your time starts now.
06:24MUSIC PLAYS
06:44Presented with a complicated landscape, the artists have to decide which elements to include.
06:49But one canvas is already coated in paint.
06:53My board is covered bright red and I really like the way that it peeks through.
07:02So, you won't see a huge amount of it in the final piece, but it has a kind of quite an intensity to it and makes the other colours sing.
07:12As well as painting professionally, Lucinda Metcalf also teaches art part-time.
07:17Her submission is of a hotel poolside in Cyprus. Based on photographs she took during her stay, she completed the painting in her home studio.
07:26I have to know whether every painting you do starts with this amazing colour?
07:32Most of them, yeah. It adds a slight melancholy edge to it.
07:36And so, are you going to find a melancholy in this landscape?
07:39Erm, I really like the statue sort of gazing out into the distance longing for something.
07:45This fluorescent red is very, very bright.
07:54Five artists are using snapshots to help compose their paintings.
07:59But one has created her own device.
08:02I've got my viewfinder, so I'm trying to find what makes an interesting composition and I'm just trying to put them into my frame.
08:1137-year-old Claire Hoard is a professional oil painter and part-time copywriter.
08:17The landscape she entered with captures Calcutta, a hilltop artist colony in Italy, which she completed in just three hours.
08:24You know, some people start and almost immediately you can kind of see what that finished painting is going to be.
08:38Yeah. That's not the case with your style, is it?
08:40No. I think the way I sort of work is more like you don't really know how it's going to work out.
08:45No. And it just reveals itself over time.
08:47I'm presuming that this sort of shark thing is the fountain.
08:51I'm looking forward to that moment when, you know, abracadabra, vroomf, and there's the whole thing.
08:57Now I'm just going to see the shark fin.
08:59Oh, sorry, I shouldn't have mentioned the shark fin. I have great faith in you.
09:02Thank you. So, good luck. We'll see.
09:04I think I'm the only printmaker. I actually brought a dice with which I sometimes make artistic decisions. So, you know, I might say one to three, this direction, four to six, that direction.
09:22Amateur artist Simon East is a molecular neuroscientist who's also written a novel and been long listed for a UK Poetry Prize.
09:42He prints lino cuts, like this one of Port Meadow in Oxford, with an abstract element to his scenes.
09:50It's quite an aerial view almost, isn't it? Yeah. So, basically, I'm having to invent it a little bit in order to open up the angles.
09:57If I were to draw it as I'm seeing it, it would be a very shallow view.
10:01So, the purist school of garden design we're going to see reflected in your beautiful line. That's right, yeah.
10:07Great. Look forward to it. Thank you.
10:14Our eight heat artists are not the only ones who've journeyed to Wadston today.
10:19On a first-come, first-served basis, 50 more have come from all over the country to try their hand as a wild card.
10:26I was cycling from London, me and my bike and my pop-up studio.
10:35I'm zooming down the M1 at half past four in the morning in my camper van, which is slightly falling apart.
10:41But I'm very glad to be here.
10:43Each with their unique techniques and varied levels of skill, the wild cards are vying for the judges' attention,
10:50because if one of them impresses enough, they could be in with a chance of a place in the semi-final.
10:56The building is like a fairytale castle or something, and I'm hoping that I can capture a little bit of its fantasy.
11:03Just walking through here and seeing them already, I've got this lovely warm feeling.
11:16It feels very exciting. I don't know, it feels like you're on the edge of a huge music festival just about to kick off as well.
11:22With a definite place in the semi-final at stake, our eight heat artists have already had one hour of their four-hour challenge.
11:37I'd say I'm a bit behind at the moment, but I'm going to try and really speed up on the cutting.
11:42The time pressure's a little bit unnerving, but it's motivating.
11:52It could be amazing or it could be terrible. I'm kind of feeling a little stressed by it at the moment.
12:12Here at Wadston Manor in Buckinghamshire, our artists are competing for the chance to win a £10,000 commission for the National Trust.
12:31With three hours to go, one artist has a novel way of saving time.
12:35Toby, I hear you're one of those mythical beasts that's painting with both hands. Can this be true?
12:43Yeah, well, I'm doing it now, yes. I think it can be true, yes, yes, yes.
12:46Ty, can you paint with both hands?
12:48I'm sure you're very good at the hand.
12:49You're such an underachiever.
12:53Toby Mulligan is a self-taught professional artist who was shortlisted for the 2012 BP Portrait Award.
12:59He regularly paints the view from his studio in Hampshire using his distinctive technique.
13:07Are you looking at the sky and thinking, I feel pink in there?
13:11Yeah, it's a bit of a dull there, it's a bit flat.
13:14So I'm looking to sort of see what I can pick up on and exaggerate.
13:18Lovely colours singing here.
13:19Beginning to, beginning to.
13:21I like to be on the floor, to start with, because when I put the paint on the canvas to start with, it's usually quite runny.
13:3342-year-old amateur artist Jo Abbott gave up bookbinding recently to concentrate on painting.
13:39Her landscape of Mildale in Derbyshire was completed in eight hours during a holiday to the area.
13:45It reflects a theme in her work, the merging of land and sky.
13:49Is it right that you're relatively new to painting?
13:56Instead of doing an art degree, I did an English degree and then went into publishing.
14:02And it's only recently that I've got back into painting.
14:07You see, I feel that there was always a screaming, wild woman inside you waiting to get out.
14:11Oh, definitely. Very frustrated and now, yes, it's all coming out.
14:14Most of the time I paint indoors and I take my time, but for now, OK, just do it, just do it.
14:32Got to be fast, meet up, finish up.
14:34When he's not painting, professional artist Titus Agbara works part-time as a security guard.
14:41His oil landscape is of a seaport close to where he grew up in Nigeria.
14:45In last year's Portrait Artist of the Year, he impressed the judges with his use of the palette knife, but failed to be shortlisted.
14:52I was worried that this grey day wouldn't really give the artists much, but you've done this beautiful layering of colours.
15:04It's the atmosphere coming through. This is just stunning.
15:07I know you usually work with palette knife and you usually put colours next to each other, but this idea of using colours underneath each other.
15:12Are you working on this today?
15:14Yeah, I do usually do it as I place the colours. I'm just trying to create depth first and foremost.
15:21Yeah, you're feeling your way through it, which is great.
15:24I think you've got a nail perfect position here.
15:44I've been very lucky. Obviously, the money got you.
15:47What are you working on here?
15:49Aluminium. It's very smooth, so it forces you to be more painterly with your application of paint.
15:57So it's a bit of maybe a bold move to be doing it today.
16:02Professional artist Franny Saunders specialises in painting African landscapes and wildlife,
16:08and was once commissioned to commemorate a military tour in Afghanistan.
16:12Her night-time landscape is of an area of northern Kenya under threat that she wanted to capture before it disappeared.
16:19You've painted in exotic places, haven't you?
16:21Yes, I don't normally have organised sort of water features in war zones or surveillance.
16:27Do you paint under war conditions?
16:30Er, ish. I've only been out to a war zone once.
16:34Most of us haven't, nor do we want to, so that must take courage.
16:38Er, yes. I sort of get more scared of going to places like Ikea than I do to war zones.
16:42Does everyone else arrive? It's own kind of war zone.
16:45It is!
16:47There may be a possible place in the semi-final for grabs, but for some of the wild cards, it's more of a day out.
16:54I am really enjoying painting with this crowd of people. It's like a hillside, it's almost like the tennis, you know, the Henman Hill.
17:03With a myriad of compositions, a few artists have caught the eye of the judges.
17:09I went to art college in the 80s and mark-making was kind of cool.
17:13Yes, I know that mark-making.
17:14Well, it's a very interesting mark-making. It was looking good.
17:22My goodness, you're actually putting people in.
17:24Yes. Yes, I am. I'm a couple of painters.
17:27That's great. I think you're the only one doing that, actually putting them into the landscape. Yeah, that's fantastic.
17:32Keeping an eye on the art is the custodian of Wadsden, the fourth Baron Rothschild.
17:44I think it's fantastic. They have really good pictures.
17:47And also, I've never seen Wadsden painted as many times in the whole of its history.
17:56Don't you think it's so brave and honest of them? I mean, they've come along and they're just exposing themselves.
18:00It's amazing.
18:02But it's really supportive.
18:03You know, the public coming in and they're encouraging and they're talking to everybody.
18:06I think they're learning a lot as well.
18:07I want you to get your ease of that. Come on, Ty.
18:09No, I need to paint six foot larger. I wouldn't be allowed to.
18:18Wadsden Manor was built by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild with the idea of it being a palace of pleasure.
18:25But when the bombs of World War II started raining down on London, the popping of their champagne corks turned to the laughter of children.
18:35During the Second World War, the government were looking to evacuate children from the urban centres.
18:41James and Dorothy de Rothschild were very aware that they wanted to do their part.
18:46And they offered Wadsden as a home to very small children, which must have been very different to the normal, slightly quieter, more peaceful life that there would have been at Wadsden.
18:57It was a big change for all at Wadsden Manor, but bigger still for the evacuees, many of whom came from East London, so had never seen such a building.
19:07As you go along the drive, you just saw this panoramic building at the bottom, absolutely gorgeous.
19:13Some of the other children congregated together. I can't remember anyone's name, except the one girl called Jenny.
19:22But I hadn't got anybody, and I don't think she had it either, so she always tended to come towards me.
19:29And it wasn't just the evacuees who moved to the manor.
19:34We would go in, get them dressed, and then they would go down to breakfast.
19:39And then you would take them into the nursery, where you had tables and chairs, and did, as you're trained to do, learning through play.
19:47And then you would go out for a walk, and it was a lovely place to sit and have picnics.
19:51And then you all went on the beds, and you said, you know, lie down, because they would dance on their beds if they got a chance.
19:57I remember they took a photo of me. My hand was snatched, and me and Jenny both had to go down the steps.
20:06And we all sort of cascaded down, elegantly.
20:10But I believe that I'm in the middle, because of the white dress, that's what I remembered the most.
20:15And after that, you know, I suppose we went and had dinner.
20:18So Margaret was sitting in these beautiful grounds, and you actually used to live here.
20:30Yes.
20:31I mean, there must have been things that you'd never seen in London.
20:33I hadn't seen horses, and a little girl called Jenny, she said, come and look at the horses.
20:41And I said, what's those?
20:42She said, you know, like what the milkman drives with the milk on.
20:46And I said, oh.
20:48You hadn't seen that either?
20:49And I ran off, I didn't like the look of it, and I was really frightened.
20:52So, later today, there's going to be several paintings on display, and you get to choose one to keep.
21:03Is that going to be a nice experience, do you think?
21:06Hopefully, I mean, I haven't seen them yet properly.
21:09No, they might be terrible.
21:10Oh, yeah. Well, you never know.
21:12No, well, let's hope they are.
21:13Let's hope we can find one you're all right with.
21:15The artists have been working for almost two hours, and many of the landscapes are well established.
21:45Um, what?
22:05Paul, you studied Architecture, didn't you?
22:06Yeah.
22:08Do you feel that that affects your art?
22:10it does but I've spent most of my life drawing in one way or another doing things like this has an
22:16essence of being at work okay but it's quite refreshing I speak to a lot of artists who talk
22:22about the emotional experience of painting you know they feel they're pouring their spirit into
22:27it oh don't do that no Simon's reduction method uses progressive cutting inking and
22:39printing from one single piece of liner it is then reduced further for each layer to produce a
22:45multicolored print I've never printed more than one or two colors in the day before I'm going to try
22:52and do three it's a bit of a gamble I mean if I don't get the final color on it won't look as good
22:57as I'd hope I've cut out the white so highlights and then I put my paper down and and I've used
23:09the back of the spoon you've got to make sure that each layer lines up really well otherwise you're
23:18going to end up with a mess with his base color done Simon now has to repeat the process twice
23:26more cutting into the lino and inking up in order to get the three layers he's aiming for
23:32it's nearly halfway through the competition
23:45stop taking the paint off put the paint on okay
23:51two hours yeah I could make it I could finish it up yeah
23:58normally I'd go away have a couple of hours go for a beer come back yeah it's quite intense I feel the time
24:11pressure actually
24:30at Watson Manor in Buckinghamshire our eight artists have completed two hours of their challenge which has given our judges plenty of time to think
24:38we're halfway through the competition what's your feeling Joe talks incredibly intelligently
24:47about the way in which she constructs her paintings and she understands the tension that
24:53you need to find in the landscape it's not just about finding a pretty view she's got quite a lot to
24:58do I think she's got less to do than Lucinda has and I really Lucinda is now ready to put on large amounts of color so that the luminous red will
25:07vanish well I think if she gets that right that could be a front runner actually yeah I agree
25:13Lucinda hasn't really got that far and Paul next door I think he's sitting there thinking what do I do now it's a very beautiful watercolor but I'm not getting that sense with the parterre of that perspective that he was getting with the buildings no I think it's a much more gentle painting
25:26Simon he's taking one imprint but he's very difficult to tell where it's going he's determined to use three colors if he's got time because he says he's never done that before in this short period of time so we'll see but I just want to see a bit more personality in that work
25:41I can now start putting on the color making it look a bit more unified and yeah this is the fun bit
26:02I've gone from blocking it in acrylics and making a mess on the floor in acrylics and I've put it up here and I'm going going in with oils now over the top and it just refines it a little bit and it gives it a bit of luminosity
26:20I'm just doing the finishing bits now I'm not totally pleased with with what I've got because it's a bit sort of splashy perhaps something a bit crisper would have been better there's possibility I can have a go at a second one
26:47with the chance of a place in the semi-final for the wild cards the judges need to agree on which artists to choose if any
27:02I've seen some quite nice painting yeah me too it's good but the one that sort of sticks in my mind the
27:17most is the good lady doing the watercolor on the floor I thought it's incredibly luminous and a very
27:23beautiful imaginative way of painting this building yeah what do you guys think of the artist who's done
27:29a very precise architectural drawing and then spent the afternoon painting it in I really like it it's a
27:34watercolor and I think if I had to choose between the two watercolors I'd still go for the slightly the
27:38freer yeah more open inventive one there's a young gentleman at the end of the hill who's been
27:46incredibly brave with the different colors that he's used and it's a little bit of poetry that he's
27:51created in the work I would have to say I find it very difficult to put one in over the other
28:01did you enjoy today I absolutely loved it congratulations you're the wild card to do
28:10hi there you know how much I enjoyed watching you paint yeah well I'm pleased to tell you that you're
28:22also going through as a wild card that's unbelievable thank you very much well done thank you
28:29Anthony and Susan join a pool of other successful wild card artists from across the heat of which one
28:38will be chosen to go through to the semi-final
28:40with a wide range of artistic mediums on show a steady stream of spectators is enjoying a rare chance to
29:08observe the creative methods I'm quite impressed with what Simon's doing I've never actually seen him
29:15the process happening before so it's also very interesting if he's to be shortlisted I think that
29:22will be a great change in probably his life or career and you might quit science who knows and do art
29:29things good I've just picked up a couple of young women you're Franny's sisters you must be very proud we've
29:40donated our artistic mr. Franny so you don't paint yourself yeah I'm loving this with the three I feel
29:47that I'm in the cause
29:49yeah
29:50definitely not musical
29:51do you start singing I'm not joining me to
29:53okay I'm happy wouldn't it be lovely shall we do a little more
29:55no
29:56no okay
29:57okay
29:58Mike you're Joe's partner I am so you've been and seen Joe's painting yes what do you think
30:14come on be honest I think it's starting to come together I think she's had far too much time to
30:19think about things here today oh really she often um goes does things over several days so she'll do
30:2420 minutes and then stop okay as you can see why she doesn't know yes she doesn't have much choice I'm guessing
30:44Paul I see a blank page before me what's happening where's your painting gone uh well it's hiding underneath there
30:50I see okay it's I'm not 100% happy with it um I think I lost it a little while ago so I'm going to try and see if I can do something with a second sheet
30:59mm-hmm um I should have stopped when I was ahead
31:08only 30 minutes remain to complete their versions of Wadsden's parterre
31:13I could do better but then I always feel like this
31:33I'd really love to see you resolve this I'm feeling that time pressure actually I'm feeling okay I shall leave
31:40there's only five minutes left in this Wadsden Manor heat of landscape artist of the year
32:00so Paul you've done a new painting yeah this is now completed is it yeah that's it and how long did that take 20 minutes
32:1420 minutes
32:17you are the 20 minute there
32:34just got a bit more to cut out and then I'm just gonna do the last layer in a complete mad panic
32:39the final layer is the most important it's the dark layer that really brings it out I'm a little bit concerned
32:45with time running out we're feeling the pressure too
33:00oh come on man come on
33:12artist you have one minute left
33:18I'm gonna print it with about hopefully with about 30 seconds
33:21this is how I run my life believe me
33:28here he comes here getting the paper left
33:30now just get it on there
33:34oh don't stop
33:35let's go
33:45we can't let him finish
33:47yeah yeah he's gonna do it in the time
33:57here we go here we go
33:58artists your time is up please put down your equipment
34:12he did it he did it
34:15ha ha ha
34:19you're wondering me
34:20my heart
34:21yeah
34:22yeah
34:23yeah
34:27before the landscapes are judged
34:29Margaret Jennings gets to choose her favourite work to take home
34:33artist would you turn your easels round please
34:39she was an evacuee at Wadston Manor during World War Two
34:42and in return for sharing her story will have her own keepsake of the manor
34:51the statuary was all here when you were here during the war was it
34:55they weren't like that they were boxed in
34:58so it was quite austere during the war
35:00well I'm not surprised
35:02yes
35:04I feel as I'm meeting the Queen
35:08Margaret this is your great moment now
35:10yeah
35:12have you made up your mind
35:14yes
35:15you know
35:16there's at least two I like
35:17it's got to be one
35:18only one
35:26hello Titus
35:28hello
35:29I like your painting
35:31thank you very much mother
35:33thank you very much
35:35that will be yours and that will hang on your wall
35:37and it will always remind you of this day
35:39yes
35:40and your days at Wadston as a child
35:42yes
35:46now the judges must whittle the eight artists to a short list of three
35:50from which one will be chosen to go through to the semi-final
35:52well he was such a showman the last 30 seconds
36:08it was brilliant to watch
36:09I find the composition interesting however I can't get my eye into it it doesn't really engage me
36:20hope they'll like it I think the worst thing they could be saying is why didn't he go to art school
36:24lots of people will love this painting it's a beautiful representation of a bucolic English scene but it's so precise
36:31do you think it's got a lot to do with his tool which is the palette knife
36:32I understand why people read like this I'm really glad it got chosen today
36:34I'm really glad it got chosen today
36:38I'm really glad it got chosen today
36:42Margaret chose my work I'm so happy about it
36:44just keep finger cross and see how you're going to do it
36:46a lot to do with his tool which is the palette knife i understand why people read like this
36:50i'm really glad it got chosen today i'm really glad it got chosen today
36:56margaret chose my work i was so happy about it just keep finger cross and see
37:16i know it's his second painting and i think it's quite brave to just keep it this as simple as it
37:21is yeah he understands composition so beautifully i took a bit of a gamble this afternoon but whether
37:27they think it's worthy in terms of um an artwork i'm not sure i love the fact that you have a first
37:36glance made me not think very much about it and then you spend more time with it and you grow to
37:40be in that landscape and i'm also pleased that she did less of the scraping in the one that she
37:45submitted it felt a bit sort of artificial whereas here they're playing an active role they're
37:49holding the whole thing together so you don't really notice them as much i'm just i love looking at it i
37:53think it's great i try to capture the essence of a place i think the worst thing they could probably
37:58say is that they don't recognize that it's a view or that it's the feeling of this place
38:04i would probably go for that one and then i definitely think we should have that one in two yeah
38:21artists thank you so much for joining us at what's the manner today
38:25and well done on creating some brilliant art but the time has come to reveal who has made
38:31it to the shortlist the first artist
38:35the second artist on the shortlist is joe abbott
38:56and the third artist to be shortlisted
38:58is paul caden
39:11commiserations to the artist who didn't make the shortlist it's been so brilliant watching you
39:15all work today well done and thank you very very much
39:18obviously disappointed it would have been fantastic to come back but it's great to have
39:29been in a competition so i'll take that forward hopefully to more competitions i was happy with
39:34what i made so um i'll probably um take it away and do a bit more work on it if i'm honest
39:40to help decide who will go through to the semi-final the judges questioned joe paul and titus about their work
39:51we we love the desolateness of your derbyshire peaks
39:55and i was just wondering whether the busyness of this landscape here presented you with some
40:00difficult challenges normally my technique would be to go into the landscape and do sketches and
40:05then come away from it the one i've done here i did start off with actually a lot more landscape
40:10and pull the sky down and maybe if i'd gone back into the studio with it i'd have pulled it down
40:15even further i'm really pleased that i decided halfway to pull back and and simplify and reassess
40:20because it's obviously paid off it was a tense moment when i came over and saw a blank page and
40:26i thought wow okay he's starting again completely are you pleased that you did yes today i just had
40:31to get that uh scene out of my system um it wasn't a scene that i enjoyed painting and i thought
40:39i've got to do something i'm comfortable with uh which is one of the simpler scene with a more
40:44graphic-y look to it the other two artists that are shortlisted i think have excellent paintings
40:49and i'm quite looking forward to seeing how that turns out we love the piece you entered because
40:55of its weird compositional device where there's actually no horizon we guessed possibly that it was
41:00done from photograph and today you were just as happy painting from life yeah when i do an outdoor
41:06painting is different from when i'm in my studio painting okay if i'm painting outdoor i think
41:11it's kind of free when expressing myself my palette knife technique was successful so i was
41:17like very very happy with it so you have to keep my finger cross hopefully if it's me then fine
41:25only one place in the semi-final is available and the judges are faced with deciding who goes through
41:32quite a lot of variety in the three that you've chosen it was very very nearly there i love the
41:39lino cut i wish it was in the top three i just thought it was really really clever and sophisticated
41:43and and really evocative but in its own distinct way when i looked at joe's pieces they are quite
41:49similar and i sort of thought neither of these are terribly dominated by what the subject is you're right
41:55on the surface the marks and what she's doing with the surface of the painting looks similar
42:00but there are subtle differences and i think she has responded to what she's seen today
42:04all our shortlisted artists have found a way of reinventing themselves halfway through the day
42:08called he adapted to the day and really sort of went into unknown territory i agree with you on that
42:14point because if you look at titus the working from a photograph there was a there was a sort of
42:18sense of flatness but he he said that you know he felt he could be a bit more expressive outdoors
42:23and i i think that's great that people can come and sort of say right what's the challenge that
42:26i've got and how can i best tackle that and sometimes really good stuff comes from that
42:30i think what we've got now is a good representation across the day i feel pleased that we've got that
42:35range represented such a range are you agreed do you think on who the final winner is going to be
42:41have to have a little chat and uh but i think we're getting there okay exciting leave it to you
42:54titus paul and joe congratulations on making it to the shortlist the judges were impressed by all
43:01your work as you know and it has been very difficult for them to make a decision but they have made it
43:08the judges very much enjoyed the artist's struggle and really valued what they achieved both in
43:13their submission and in their work today and that artist is
43:24joe abbott
43:29congratulations well done i feel absolutely gobsmacked just can't believe it really um i can't stop
43:43shaking really good amazing what you've done in a day i really love the experience i'll just go home
43:51and continue with the painting which i left behind yeah thank you so much
43:55i looked at joe's work and she'd got marks on there which were really fantastic and i really thought
44:02she deserved it i'm going to have to go home take it all in and then i'm going to have to reassess
44:10the fact that i didn't think i was competitive because i obviously am
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