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00:00Hello, you join us at the impressive Lyme Park in Cheshire, just on the edge of the Peak District,
00:17the first location in this year's search to find Britain and Ireland's most outstanding artistic
00:21talent, and this time we're heading outside. Eight amateur and professional artists will have just
00:27four hours to produce a painting that impresses our three demanding judges and claims a place in
00:33the semi-final. So sit back and get ready to enjoy some really great art. Welcome to a brand new series
00:39of Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year. Over the next eight weeks we're setting up home in
00:47spectacular National Trust properties up and down the country, delving into one of the great genre
00:53of art history in a quest to discover the next constable, Turner or Hockney. Over 1,000 artists
01:01applied and those considered by our judges as the very best have been invited to compete in the heats.
01:08I think it'd be good to just do that square foot of grass over there. Each week eight different
01:14artists will be given the chance to paint these inspiring landscapes. All of them with one goal,
01:20to win a £10,000 commission to paint one of the National Trust's most beautiful views,
01:26Flatford in Suffolk, made famous by Constable himself. Yes, that's fantastic. Well, it's a start.
01:34But to make it through to the semi-final, they'll have to impress our expert judges.
01:38Award-winning artist Tyshan Schierenberg, independent curator and art historian Kathleen Soriano,
01:45and contemporary art specialist Kate Bryan. So that's the definite. Yeah, that's definite.
01:52It's just these two we've got to fight over. But there's a twist. Up to 50 more artists are coming
01:58along to each of the heats to try their hand as a wild card. And if any catch the eye of the judges,
02:04they could see themselves in the semi-final too. It's people doing something that's very personal to
02:11them, but doing it in a community. It's a beautiful combination. Whether they're painting.
02:16This is cow manure. Yes, fresh cow manure from this morning. Where did you get the cow? Sketching.
02:23Are you a sufferer with nerves? A little bit. Because you have an enormous bucket. I wonder if that's
02:28your case you're overcome with nausea. Or printing. We can't let him finish it. Here we go, here we go.
02:35He did it. Only one artist can claim the title of Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year.
02:45In each heat, the selected artists are a mix of both amateur and professional. Today there
03:10are two amateur artists, Chris Robinson and Tim Galton. I'm very much looking forward to meeting
03:17the judges today. I have great respect for them. And six professional artists, Venetia Sims,
03:24Adebanjia Ladi, Marta Fakula Mac, Sophie Levi, Sean Williams and Jamie Haigman. I'm a mountain artist,
03:33so I'm going to have to adapt to painting reflections and buildings.
03:43The judges selected the artists purely on their talent from a digital submission of one of their
03:48landscapes. So today, they're seeing the real thing up close for the first time.
03:54Well, goodness me, who would have thought when you put out the challenge landscape you would get something
03:59so varied as this. How does this match up to what you saw in digital form?
04:04It's a dry point. Dry point. Yeah. There's some very beautiful marks like the coppice in the back,
04:08which is really inventive, kind of, I don't know how it's done. It's got some great colour.
04:13Really interesting, aren't it? It's a lovely piece. And quite brave with that sort of completely
04:17empty sky in the background. Yes, they stopped in good time. Yeah. Then didn't overdo it.
04:21Right, this one. When we looked at the portraiture before, we always were concerned that those
04:28people who were photo and hyperrealists wouldn't be able to create a portrait in the time.
04:33But I'm also looking at the passages that aren't in the snow here, for example, and they're actually
04:39quite loose and free. So I think this person possibly has an ability to do both elements quite comfortably.
04:46I think I should point out the two tiny, tiny figures there to give some sense of perspective.
04:53Is it just showing off, do you think? Maybe. I don't know. I am impressed by it. I can't help but be.
04:58Well, you're meant to be.
05:01What a deal of paint on here. Goodness. A lot of palette. I don't remember it being so blocky.
05:08Yeah. Well, it's like the slate, isn't it? I mean, the paint is like the slate.
05:12Yeah. I don't know what to make of it because it feels a bit too formulaic to keep using the same little blocky squares everywhere.
05:19I wish they could loosen up a bit, make some parts much looser and allow other parts to be much tighter.
05:26And finally, a very delicate one. I think they love the tree. And I think they just thought, this tree is sublime.
05:34The tree will be what seduces people. I like the fence, actually. I like this kind of dirty, grubby, unfinished bit there.
05:40And I'm quite intrigued by them that they would do that when the rest of it is so finished.
05:44And given that they don't have much time today, I would hope that this artist, who's proficient, could undo themselves a bit.
05:50I do think that they will be very happy today because they've got trees in a building.
05:54So they've had some practice. They start with an advantage. So we have high hopes of them.
05:59All facing the same view, the artists have been asked to paint a composition of Lime Hall and its reflecting lake.
06:14Originally a hunting lodge, the hall was transformed into a mansion in the middle of the 16th century.
06:20But such a splendid view isn't to everyone's liking.
06:23I think heading that way, you're looking across the building.
06:28It's a bit more pleasing. A little bit lower as well down there maybe.
06:32Maybe this is my melting eye coming into it.
06:40I think it's lovely. I'm going to focus though on this side.
06:43Because I like the greens and I like trees and this bit of water is nice.
06:51Water I could do without, but it's there, you can't ignore it.
06:55And the building is quite tricky, but that's the challenge I think.
06:59If not, it's going to end up in the lake.
07:10Artists, I hope you're ready to paint one of Cheshire's grandest houses.
07:14You have four hours to complete your work, so good luck. Your time starts now.
07:21Deciding which aspects of a landscape to feature is a matter for each artist's individual style.
07:41But for one, his day job could be influential.
07:45You're an architect. Yes.
07:47And it turns out the composition today includes a big house.
07:51A building. A building, yeah.
07:53Does that give you an advantage? No. Absolutely not.
07:56Really, why not?
07:57Because the last thing I want to do is draw and paint buildings.
08:02All I'm doing is seeing an Italian building with ionic columns and I've seen so many of them in my life.
08:11Oh God, I've now got to paint one.
08:14Chris Robinson is from Kew in London.
08:17A self-taught artist, he likes to paint outside no matter the weather.
08:21His submission painting is an impressionistic watercolour of the Chilterns in Oxfordshire.
08:26It epitomises for him the English landscape.
08:31Theoretically, Chris, you could not draw the house.
08:35Big risk, Frank, I think.
08:38Do you think the judges might be impressed by your courage, though?
08:42Do you think so?
08:43You could avoid it, though.
08:44You know them better than I do.
08:46Well, yeah, I think they'd hate you for it.
08:57Hello, Jamie. Hello.
08:58How are you doing?
08:59Not too bad, thanks.
09:01You've set yourself the most incredible challenge,
09:03because I'm guessing your work normally takes a little bit longer than the four hours you've got.
09:06You've guessed right, yeah.
09:07Jamie Hagman lives in Fort William, Scotland.
09:11He divides his time between climbing mountains and painting them.
09:15His submission piece is of the mountain Blencathera in the Lake District,
09:19and it took more than two months to complete.
09:22I've done a very quick sketch, which is fairly rubbish, but it will help me.
09:25I don't know, I quite like the simplicity of it.
09:27And what's going to be interesting is to see how detailed you're going to be able to become,
09:32because I know that's where you feel more comfortable.
09:34I'm going to focus on an area of detail, just, I think this would be a little bit more of a demonstration.
09:40To show I can, maybe the whole painting won't be finished.
09:42We like a sense of promise.
09:44Even though they're trying to impress the judges by painting Lyme Park,
09:50not all the artists are exclusively landscape painters.
09:54Do you have your done portraits?
09:55Yes, yes, I do portraits, yeah.
09:57Have you ever had one in Nashport, though?
09:58Yes, yeah, I had one in...
10:00Well, I've had three times in the BP.
10:02Oh, yeah.
10:03Absolutely spectacular.
10:05A very narrow-faced older gentleman.
10:07Oh, yes, yes, yes, Cliff.
10:09Very nice to meet you in the...
10:11Oh, of course.
10:13Sophie Levi is from London and divides her time between landscapes and portraits.
10:18Her submitted painting depicts the rocket-shaped spire of All Souls Church in London.
10:23This was one of Sophie's first paintings using a circular canvas,
10:27rather than the traditional landscape format.
10:30I've only painted once in a round canvas.
10:32It's a completely different compositional sort of problem, isn't it?
10:36It is, it is, yeah.
10:37Because you don't have the straight edges.
10:39Does it mean sometimes you can use it as a way of bending space?
10:42Yeah.
10:43Partly the bend comes from just being greedy and wanting to fit a lot in,
10:47and so you have to squeeze it in.
10:49And partly because it's in the round can make it work compositionally.
10:53To create a landscape within the four-hour time limit,
10:58one artist, who usually works on a large scale,
11:01has had to find ways of adapting his style.
11:05I did some trial runs in a four-hour period,
11:07and they were disastrous, really.
11:09So I thought, maybe just today in this four hours,
11:11maybe I'll be a bit more confident working this scale.
11:14It seems like you've downscaled everything.
11:16I mean, these are little milk for my cup of tea,
11:19and then these are sort of medicine packets,
11:21which you're mixing colours in.
11:23Yeah.
11:24They're quite handy, mixing up acrylic in those,
11:26and then sticking a bit of foil over it,
11:27rather than wasting, you know.
11:29It doesn't come cheap, you know.
11:31No, none of this does, no.
11:33Sean Williams is from Sheffield
11:35and studied painting and printmaking at Sheffield Hallam University.
11:39His submission painting is of a new building development
11:44near his father's home in Nantwich.
11:46Today, the size of canvas isn't the only aspect of his work he's changed.
11:51I've abandoned acrylics,
11:53and I'm going to go for watercolour pencils with a bit of watercolour.
11:56So this is presumably a technique that you're familiar with
11:58and you've used many times to work quickly.
12:00Not at all.
12:01OK.
12:02No, no.
12:03It's an outcard if it's no good.
12:04He's like, well, I don't work like that anyway, so...
12:06LAUGHTER
12:13This year, adding a new element to the competition,
12:16we invited 50 more artists from all over the country to Lyme Park
12:20to try their luck as a wildcard.
12:23On a first-come, first-served basis,
12:26and no matter what their medium, experience or age,
12:29they're here to try and impress.
12:31Painting with all these other artists is always inspiring
12:34and a bit intimidating as well sometimes.
12:39I love the wildcard area.
12:40It feels like a sort of fantastic community of artists
12:42and the people just doing what they love.
12:44It's so refreshing to go back to people's pure, unbridled passion for art.
12:48And if they catch the judge's eye, they could be going through to the semi-final.
12:57You've brought the whole studio with you, haven't you?
12:59I've tried to.
13:00LAUGHTER
13:05That is fantastic.
13:06We abstracts get a bit violent sometimes.
13:09Yeah, but that, you could hang that in an art gallery.
13:11That's a beautiful thing.
13:15Now, you're still at school.
13:17That's right.
13:18You're doing A-levels?
13:19Yeah.
13:20I'm sitting out foundation next year, hopefully.
13:28I like nature.
13:29I'm a naturist.
13:30OK.
13:31So, I like...
13:32When you say you're a naturist, it doesn't mean you take your clothes off.
13:35Nature is a natural thing.
13:36Yes.
13:37This nature.
13:38Yes.
13:39Not that kind of.
13:40No.
13:48There are still three hours of the challenge remaining.
13:53But only one of the artists can claim a place in the semi-final.
13:57Bit of a slow start, a bit of a hesitant start.
14:00If I was a racehorse, a couple of lengths off the back of the pace, I think, at the moment.
14:12I was trying to work out the last time I painted a building, and I think it was probably 2007 in Venice.
14:19So, you know, and I haven't been practising buildings.
14:26I'm not over the moon about where the painting is at the moment.
14:29It needs quite a lot of work, basically.
14:31So, I'm just ploughing on.
14:35What's going on?
14:54At Lyme Park in Cheshire, we're one hour into the first heat of our new competition.
14:59All of our artists are concentrating on their composition of Lyme Hall.
15:06And one has quite an audible way of staying focused.
15:10If you watch it enough, you'll see it, boy.
15:13You know?
15:14Just get into this.
15:16Just take your time, baby.
15:20Mandy.
15:21Hey.
15:22I hate to interrupt your personal commentary.
15:24Oh, yeah, sorry.
15:25I'm a bit maddy.
15:26I talk to myself, yeah.
15:27Is it true that you do sketches of people on the bus?
15:30The bus train tube, yeah.
15:32It's one of the ways I interact with people,
15:34because I don't want to be quiet in the tube.
15:36So, yeah, I get attention, and people say,
15:37what'd you do?
15:38Why'd you do that?
15:39Blah, blah, blah.
15:41Adebanjialadi is from Kent,
15:43and alongside painting landscapes and people for a living,
15:46he's also a motivational speaker.
15:49His landscape of the circus in Bath was made in one six-hour sitting,
15:53and features a subject he's very passionate about.
15:57I love trees, yeah.
15:58I see them as human beings, so they're creepy,
16:00they're, you know, some are happy,
16:02sometimes the weeping willows are sad, so...
16:05How's that go?
16:06I am slightly obsessed...
16:07With trees?
16:08With trees as well.
16:09I have hogged trees at 1.30am in the morning.
16:12My day.
16:13Tree-hugging, okay.
16:14There you go.
16:15And you're a big man, I mean,
16:16you could do the circumference of quite a sturdy trunk.
16:19I have to stick with saplings.
16:25Canvas, brushes and paint are usually part of an artist's kit,
16:29but they're not the only way to capture a landscape.
16:32I have some dry point needle here.
16:38It's very sharp.
16:39Even gentle marks...
16:40They will show up?
16:41They will show up, they will print.
16:43How can you see what you're doing there?
16:45You have to feel it?
16:46I have to feel it, but that's why I made this drawing,
16:50so I know where I am.
16:52Marta Vakula-Max studied art in Krakow before moving to Dublin,
16:57where she now has work in the National Gallery of Ireland's
17:00permanent collection.
17:02Her landscape is an abstract representation
17:04of her favourite view in Wicklow,
17:06made by etching onto copper before printing.
17:09The print you entered with,
17:11it looked like some marks had been painted on.
17:13No.
17:14This kind of effect is made by sandpaper.
17:18This gives you nice, really subtle tones of grades.
17:23But you can't...
17:24I can see...
17:25I can't see.
17:26No.
17:27I can see how you would see the marks you're going to make
17:29with your drawing,
17:30but with the tones you've got to go...
17:31No.
17:32It's experience.
17:33You know what's going on.
17:34Yes, yes.
17:35You're fearless.
17:36I'm fearless.
17:43You've recently become a full-time artist,
17:45made the plunge.
17:46Yeah, well, I finished art school last summer,
17:49so I decided to not get a normal job and try and make it work.
17:53Venetia Sims from Salisbury studied portraiture
17:56at Heatherlys College in London
17:58before furthering her training in Florence.
18:01Her landscape is the view towards Albania,
18:03from her aunt's house in Corfu.
18:06You've got a lot blocked out here.
18:08You've taken the distance away
18:09and you're right up there next to it.
18:11Yeah, I thought, to be honest,
18:12it's such a sort of amazing strong building.
18:14That's the focus.
18:15And I want the reflection sort of running into the viewer.
18:18I think that could look quite nice.
18:20I was wondering if anyone was going to take on that challenge.
18:22I got warned today, they said, when you talk to Tim,
18:26don't mention clouds because he'll go on for ages.
18:28That's right, yeah.
18:29But there were no interesting clouds today.
18:31But you know a cumulonimbus from a...
18:32A fair-weather cumulus.
18:33Yes.
18:34Yes, from that.
18:35I hate those fair-weather cumuluses
18:36because where are they when you're in trouble?
18:37Okay.
18:38Tim Golton is a business analyst from St Albans.
18:42they said when you talk to Tim don't don't mention clouds because he'll go on
18:46for ages that's right yeah there were no interesting clouds today but you know a
18:50cumulative nimbus from a fair weather cumulus yes yes from that I hate those
18:57fair weather cumulus is because where are they when you're in trouble Tim
19:02Galton is a business analyst from St Albans his love of art began as a child
19:07when his father a landscape artist used to take him on painting trips his
19:12landscape is of the Green Bridge of Wales on the Pembrokeshire coast painted in
19:16thick oil he used his utensil of choice the palette knife what is it about that
19:23sort of block yeah my inspiration at the moment is very much the very material
19:29nature of my subject matter so you know be it tree bark or the texture of a rock
19:34those substances can best be described by use of a thick loaded palette knife I
19:39like the sound of a loaded palette knife that's what it is sounds like something that could do a bit of damage
19:44with a possible place in the semi-final the wild cards are embracing working so close to each other
19:58I love the fact you've included all the artists because it's such a pretty scene
20:02fast the building is not bright red yet the earth will be the building to start with and then I'll
20:11point in some windows only about 10 o'clock at night you've only got four hours then we throw you out
20:17everyone's all got a hundred mile an hour and I just like you know it's a long day I can just ease
20:25through it you know why though that's because you're cool yeah lazy always it's a very fine line is a fine
20:32line you just stick with what you believe yeah set your phone yeah I'll say you're popular as well I hate
20:40you we've got two water colorists and it's been a very beautiful picture of the house there's somebody
20:55drawing in charcoal at the top it's a great light to it which is unusual for a drawing there's a young
21:00girl her colors a bit grubby that's a fantastic piece of painting there are a handful of good artists
21:08so it should be quite easy to find a winner I'm becoming more and more fascinated by the painting
21:24of water is it some mysterious art then and when it's right it's really enticing isn't it it's the
21:32thing about water all the edges are sharp hmm so if you get the reflection and then those
21:37ripples crisply you get the tone of the reflection which is slightly darker than the object that's
21:44being reflect you get those general elements right it cons the eye into believing it's water can I ask
21:51you one of my stupid questions would you turn your canvas and paint it do you know what I mean so then
21:59you're painting the building the right way up but it doesn't quite work like that if we look at the
22:03reflection it's changing the water is simplifying it at the same time as it's reflecting it so all
22:07the shadows are being elongated as they come down yeah in fact the water does a sort of an abstract
22:14painting of the building it's better than the house it is fantastic yeah but trees pretty good as well yeah
22:21all right heat artists are battling it out for a place in the semi-final and they have just over two hours
22:43to impress that's incredible detail here I want to do the reflection next because I think it's quite
22:50important bit of foreground two hours time call it a day so I'm going to print yellow first
23:01yeah it's not bad I'm probably a little bit behind because there's a lot of canvas to cover still
23:16the house is looking a little bit weedy and that's it's not how it should be so a little bit worried
23:31here at Lyme Park in Cheshire the artists who have been painting for two hours are halfway through
23:49their challenge yeah exciting but do the judges agree so Chris the architect he has captured an incredible
23:59sense of mood already it might not be necessarily the mood of this place but it's a very evocative
24:04piece it doesn't feel like here yeah but I don't want it to feel like here I'm here I can see it I
24:10could take a photograph I mean it's his job to take artistic license what about Tim we may get there but
24:15it feels a bit slight to me at the moment I thought he wasn't going to get there at all I mean he reduced
24:20this building to this grubby little gray frontage and then as he got there I thought he had a little
24:25something was happening and just now he started to produce the reflection yeah and also the texture
24:30of the building I'm kind of excited add a banjee he raced off this I just I believe the speed with
24:38which he got everything in place and the water was fabulous and done with very little Jamie I like
24:44Jamie's I think the color choices are really unusual has no light in it you have the elements but you
24:51don't get a sense of light coming from anywhere onto the elements and the color scheme he's gone
24:55for is quite glacial yeah even though this isn't at all but I mean I just think I think we can punish
25:01someone who paints snowy mountains for bringing a bit of that to a posh building yeah I think he has
25:06to compromise the mountain wouldn't come to Jamie so Jamie this is amazing wow finished a long way to go
25:27it looks like but because of our different styles been going at a steady pace so far this is a wonderful
25:35bunch and everyone's way of doing it's different so wish I was ahead but can't do anything about that
25:43Chris I just heard you say something which was I started to fiddle and that's bad yeah because
26:00I had originally got what I wanted with a few brushstrokes the colors are deadening now because
26:06I've started to put one too many washes over when you stand back this cloud is terrific so don't meddle
26:14originally used as a hunting ground Lyme Park is known for its 16th century hall and reflecting
26:23lake but there's another building that has become synonymous with the local skyline you can see the
26:32cage from miles and miles around its primary function was as a hunting lodge of a viewing tower
26:40if you like for the ladies to watch the Lord's hunting and then they'd all come back here at the
26:46end and and have a banquet originally a timber construction it's thought the cage was remodeled
26:52into its current form in the 1720s and 30s by the same architect that designed the house Giacomo
26:59Leone however the origins of how he got his name are shrouded in mystery the cage possibly got its
27:08name because it was used as a holding cell a prison of sorts for poachers held here overnight waiting for
27:18the local constabulary to come from Macclesfield and cart them away in the morning so I guess that might
27:23be one of the reasons why became known as the cage after many years standing derelict other than being
27:29used by the Home Guard during the Second World War the cage has now been restored and sits resplendent
27:35atop the moorland of Lyme Park locally is very much an iconic landmark it really makes you realize you
27:42you've been transported back into a historic landscape Phil Stokes has devoted his working life to Lyme Park
27:50so as a reward for his dedication today we'll be giving him the chance to pick his favorite painting
27:55for himself you grew up not far from here not far just in the middle of Stockport and I grew up not
28:02far from here too so I know this place but I don't know it like you do how old were you when you first
28:08came here I was 15 when I came here to serve an apprenticeship in their carpentry and joinery four
28:14year apprenticeship it wasn't just about teaching you trade they taught you how to apply that to
28:20Lyme Park and care for the buildings on the estate Lyme is famous for one particular television program
28:27Pride and Prejudice yeah with Colin Firth coming out of the water it's legendary did it happen in that
28:32pond no no it was quite a murky little pond further back in the estate you're breaking a thousand hearts
28:38you're bringing a million hearts I was reluctant to tell you right you get to choose one of the
28:43paintings for yourself well I've had a quick look round yeah on my way past and there is some stunning
28:48work going on right well we'll let them finish before you make your choice but once you make
28:53your choice it's yours okay thank you all right artists are battling out for a place in the semi-final
29:03but will any of the wild cards be joining them blimey it's positively vibrating with energy
29:13to be in with a chance of making it to the semi-final the judges have to agree on just one wild card to
29:28put forward hello Celia don't interrupt you you're still busy working well you've made something
29:36that's quite different it's got a very sort of architectural feel to it and we love the light
29:41that you captured coming from the orangery we'd like to put you through as the wild card today to
29:46the next round congratulations Celia is now the first person to join a pool of wild cards after all
30:00six heats are complete one will be chosen to go through to the semi-final I'm slightly happier than I
30:13was before but that wasn't difficult and yeah it's just the time thing it's an issue I was almost
30:20hoping you'd be struggling more so I could say to you you've got a mountain to climb but you haven't
30:25got a mountain to climb you've got I think a hillock 30 minutes remain in this first heat of landscape
30:31artist of the year this is print number five is that right this is print number five the yellow was a
30:46little bit too light okay but I'm happy about the blood but the yellow didn't work out so I need to do it
30:54again building still isn't strong enough and that's what I'm worried about that's what's going to let it
31:08down are you going to touch this do you think or not maybe just put dashes of flowers just small
31:23little white did dashes yeah those are the little kind of bits and pieces that might just one of the
31:29dangers when you get to this stage yes is to do too much I know I know it's deadly you've got to know
31:35going to stop I have to here at Lyme Park there are just five minutes left in this first heat of
31:57landscape artist of the year
32:06I'm going as fast as I can yes I've missed out all these arches here you've got the spirit of the building
32:11good that's nice you can use that the judges ask you why you haven't finished it well I like it
32:16there isn't enough definition in it I know I'm panicking because it's not doing stupid things
32:30how long have I got there's no choices there it's I'm just trying to make it work last minute
32:48thank you give me another couple of months and this would look splendid
33:03artists your time is up please put down your materials and step away from your work
33:21sheltered from the rain and before the judges look at the final landscapes Phil Stokes who has worked
33:46at Lyme Park since he was 15 will now choose his favorite painting to keep as a thank you for his
33:52commitment so artists can you please turn your easels
34:03recognize it I do yeah yeah I like the way the house is just nestled into the landscape yeah if
34:10you've got a big circular spot on your wall yeah could be the one for you that's quite
34:17foreboding that backdrop to that one it was a foreboding kind of a day that wasn't it skywise so
34:22do you feel you have your winner oh yeah I think I do yeah we we talk quite a lot about spirit of
34:30place here and I think the one that's captured that for me the most is this first one
34:40to help them decide which artist will claim a place in the semi-final the judges first whittled
34:54down the eight to three I'm really pleased with this one I think the scale of the picture sort of
35:01really loosened him up rather than that tight submission and fantastic sort of reflection in
35:06the light and attention to details gorgeous and fantastic sets of space as well he really has
35:11that sweeping edge of the water and the building the distance I mean I think it just looks like
35:17it's easy to him it's amazing to be shortlisted will be a double blessing but for now I'm really pleased
35:24I can tell my kids at home that someone chose my painting and he works here and it's gonna be with
35:32him forever it is not as quite as dynamic as I hoped it was going to be and I think the sky was much more
35:38dynamic earlier on the day which is a pity that she's lost there it hasn't quite got that dynamism
35:42and energy that the other one had and and somehow the relationship between the different elements
35:47doesn't work as well as it did in the other which sort of completely took you around the picture
35:51the inventiveness of the little drips and stuff it just makes the water very watery it's any worse
36:02I can think of there's not much there is there it's quite soft but then I like the undone
36:07architectural drawing I like the aggressiveness of these trees it's unusual yeah it went okay at the
36:14beginning and then it just sort of died away at the end so feeling a bit deflated it's got great
36:25one your mentality that's why I'm surprised I just really didn't think he was gonna make it because
36:30he took so long in the building I didn't like this painting until he started making the reflection of his
36:37building it's a bit rougher the way the water plays around with the sky it's great I actually like
36:43the reflection so much I wish he painted the building like that I think this is quite wonderful
36:49actually because he knew he had to compromise he couldn't paint the way he normally did in his
36:53submission that fantastic mountain but I think he's created something quite fabulous I feel like
37:00it's sort of David Lynch meets Tim Burton by way of surrealism these very strange colors which I
37:06thought lended a sort of lightlessness to it but it gives it a very strange brooding atmosphere I think
37:12it's fantastic when it worked it suddenly took me with it I think it's a phenomenal piece of painting
37:16that experience was terrifying I didn't have enough time to complete my painting the subject matter was
37:25something completely different for me but I produced a painting at the end of it and it's it's all right
37:30I'm having trouble deciding between the sort of more graphic style works on the paper yeah whereas
37:39that is so strange I think it's fantastic it stands alone and it's really cool so that's the definite
37:45yeah that stuff it's just these two you've got to fight over but only three can make the shortlist the first artist to go
38:00through is add a bungee a lardy
38:04the second artist is Tim Goulton
38:16and the third artist to go through is Jamie Haigman
38:30and commiserations to all the artists who didn't quite make it well done yes very well done
38:47I was happy about the drawing at the beginning but then for some reason I couldn't get the print right so I am a bit disappointed
38:54I think it's been a fantastic experience I don't feel down I don't feel indifferent it's great and if
39:01anybody else sees anything like this come along and their potential artists I suggest to have a go
39:06before they decide on today's winner the judges chat to add a banjee Jamie and Tim about the work
39:15they completed today and their submission landscape did you work out your composition quite quickly and do
39:21you normally paint this fast if I was to do this on my normal basis I would do it over three to five
39:27sittings but there's a little bit of adrenaline and I'm pressure and so I kind of pushed myself a
39:36little bit that's why I'm drained at the moment yes oh yeah I felt like you were sort of getting an
39:40energy off everybody I love people everything about people I just love it so it helps me when I paint
39:48outside too it could tilt anyway because even the eight artists it's they're very strong so there is
39:55a very kind of first fierce competition once you got beyond the building you freed up I mean have you
40:05ever painted buildings before I have I mean at the moment I guess I'm most inspired by the raw organic
40:11elements of nature did you enjoy painting the reflection more than the building or do I just
40:16feel like you did I always enjoy painting reflection so yes you're probably right yeah I knew that the
40:24first half would be tricky and there wouldn't be much on the canvas but it did get to a stage where
40:29they're obviously happy with it very late on in in the four hours these are both very accomplished
40:39paintings but both very different is one your style that used from painting from life in the
40:43other photograph I think really they're the same style I paint quite realistically and very bold colors
40:52but this feels it lives of his unfinishedness in a sense it would it become more and more finished if
40:58you had time yes if I was to work on that for a couple more weeks then I would get into the nitty-gritty
41:04into the detail I'm curious because you're clearly not very happy with it you're not as happy with it as
41:08you are with something like that I think actually the more I look at this now the more happy I become
41:13it's taken a while I think they understood the fact that I really had a rush on couldn't complete the
41:21painting but I think actually they found some positives in that so I was quite relieved at that yeah yeah
41:28interesting with your shortlist I think I prefer what they did today all three of them with what they
41:37actually submit it yeah today they're allowed to break the rules that they've set for themselves a
41:44lot of people get a great deal out of that but I don't think Jamie's quite come to terms with what
41:48he made today yeah yeah but also understand what is compelling Jamie to finish his paintings always to
41:52this high finish it might be quite interesting for him to think actually it's it's something I do
41:57because I've always done it and people think it's great actually maybe artists found in a slightly
42:01different style I think that applies to Tim as well I think the journey he's made from the painting I love
42:06very much which is the great Welsh slate cliffs um he's moved a long way from there yeah yeah I think
42:13all three finalists did as well because Adeban Jay was saying that he was responding to the time
42:16constraint and the people you know he sort of sprinted a marathon it was so impressive so we're providing a
42:22service so I suspect you have your winner what was it a unanimous decision in the end I think it was I
42:28think it was yeah pretty clear Adebanji Tim Jamie congratulations to each one of you your work has
42:41really impressed the judges but as you know only one of you can go forward yes and the judges have made
42:50their decision they felt that the person that they are sending through to the semi-final has inventively
42:58adapted their style to create an unconventional and evocative work and that person is Jamie Haigman
43:08I'm thrilled for Jamie because I think he deserves to go through on this occasion
43:25it's not athletics or sports you don't win because you were first across the line it's all down to
43:35the judges and what they look for I've gained belief that I can paint really quickly and do something
43:45that is a pretty decent finished painting I suppose and that I can paint something other than mountains
43:50thisadd
43:51makes the decisions
43:52and the Hmmm
43:53it's weird so I can't tell you about when do somebody else
43:54but doing somebody else works Ralph H
44:08so that they want to get a message to me?
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