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00:00You
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00:10Hello and welcome to the show
00:15Shores of beautiful Derwent water
00:16In Cumbria
00:17The graphite in these hills
00:20Inspired the invention of the pencil
00:22And there are pencils aplenty here today
00:25It's a brand new episode
00:26Of landscape artist of the year
00:30It's heat one
00:31And we've presented eight more of Britain's best amateur and professional art
00:35With another challenging but impressive vista
00:40It's just perfect really
00:42The drama of the mountains
00:43And the sky is a big area
00:45I'm not painting the
00:50The whole place is just sublime
00:55And as always our artists will be working under the scrutiny of our three demanding judges
01:00Artist Taishan Sheerenberg
01:02Director of Freeze London
01:04And New Judge
01:05And curator Kathleen Soriano
01:08It's getting there
01:09It's getting there
01:10Yeah
01:11I mean I can see a ground and some brown marks
01:13Alongside a formation
01:15Of 50 landscape artist wild cards
01:18This feels like
01:19Sort of colour
01:20Colorful candy floss
01:21Oh it is
01:22It's gorgeous
01:23It's addictive
01:24Can I eat it?
01:25Can I eat it?
01:26No
01:25No
01:26At stake is a prestigious prize
01:28A £10,000 commission to
01:30Create an artwork
01:31Of Cro-Patrick
01:32In County Mayo
01:33For the National Gallery of Ireland
01:35But everything depends on getting through today
01:38I just need to
01:40To reflect
01:41And not make any rash decisions
01:43I'm not feeling
01:45Too nervous about it
01:46But yes it's going really fast
01:48So buckle up
01:49So buckle up
01:50You all right?
01:51As
01:55We search for the next
01:56Landscape Artist of the Year
01:58It could
02:00Contains Stephen King
02:01Penning some gothic horror story
02:04About
02:05About
02:06Murderings
02:07I mean you know
02:08It could be
02:09I'm just spoiling it for me
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02:45I think I've got my work cut out.
02:48What I'm looking for is...
02:50and hopefully I don't screw up.
02:53Also joining us today are...
02:55professional artist Kevin Day from Newcastle.
02:59Illustrator and...
03:00an animator Callum Howard-Tracy
03:02and Kim Day, a film scene illustrator.
03:05Both from Dorset.
03:07And Judy Flanagan, a professional artist...
03:10from the East Riding of Yorkshire.
03:14It's an amazing privilege.
03:15to be part of Landscape House of the Year.
03:17Didn't expect to get in,
03:18but really excited to get going.
03:20All artists were handpicked
03:22on the basis of a submitted landscape.
03:25which they've brought along
03:26for the judges to look at later.
03:29But for now it's time...
03:30to settle into the pods, ready for the day.
03:34Hello.
03:35Sorry.
03:36Just want to say hello.
03:37Hi.
03:38Very nice to meet you.
03:39I'm excited about painting.
03:40outdoors.
03:41I was certainly nervous
03:42and thinking about this an awful lot
03:43before now.
03:44But now I'm...
03:45here I feel a little bit calmer.
03:50Right, it's going to be a beautiful...
03:54Right, it's going to be a beautiful...
03:55beautiful day.
03:56I can feel it in my Derwent waters.
03:58You have four hours to paint...
04:00your landscape.
04:01And your time starts now.
04:05Here I have four hours to paint.
04:07You have two hours to paint.
04:08I'm ready.
04:09You have three hours to paint.
04:10And you wait a minute...
04:11People say hi to me.
04:12I'm ready.
04:13You have three hours to paint.
04:14So now I'm ready to take my camera.
04:15It's a good morning.
04:16It's a good morning.
04:17It's a good morning.
04:18I'm ready.
04:19You're ready for the ride.
04:20Take a quarter.
04:21I'm ready for the ride.
04:22If you have to stay as a bridge,
04:23you have to stay.
04:24Just for a quarter.
04:25That's a great day.
04:26There's a round of applause.
04:28I'm ready for you.
04:29You're ready for the ride.
04:30I never let off the ride.
04:31I've just made a few hours to have
04:32landscape of towering fells and ancient woodland in the center of
04:37the view is Derwent Island with its Italianate boathouse flanked by the
04:42popular hiking spot of cat bells to the West are the view
04:47today is just glorious honestly I couldn't be more pleased at having this
04:52location the clouds in the skies really are lovely
04:57and so deep textured and the whole place is just
05:02sublime
05:07you
05:12you
05:17there's a broad expanse of water and I want that to be the interest
05:20we'll see if I can do it
05:22there
05:23professional artist Andy Cropper has a degree in fine art
05:27from Sheffield Hallam University
05:29his submission a nocturne in a
05:32acrylics and oils took over a week and is of an office block in the center of Sheffield
05:37Andy
05:38yes
05:39there's a huge expanse of water there's a lot of beautiful mountains
05:42you've got this island and you've got barely no sky
05:44that's right
05:45tell me what your thoughts are
05:46so the mountain
05:47orange vaguely sort of put in there and then water which hopefully I should be able to
05:52give a bit of texture and interest in
05:54it does keep changing the water doesn't it has got some
05:57beautiful ripples and then suddenly it's just rough and doesn't give you much
06:00yes
06:01let's talk about your
06:02mission
06:03it's at night
06:04it's of a man-made structure
06:06it's very urban
06:07it's the polar opposite of this
06:09it is
06:10it's a great effect of painting so let's see something
06:12similar to today man
06:13yes
06:17it's a great idea
06:18it's a great idea
06:19it's a great idea
06:20you
06:22I think the island in the middle is pretty exciting there's a lot to focus on a lot
06:26of textual
06:27detail
06:28I do also quite like the shade on the island it's quite dramatic
06:32so
06:33Calum Howard Tracy is a freelance illustrator and animator and paints
06:37in his spare time in his adopted home of Hove
06:42Calum's submission in watercolour and pencil is of Hove Town Hall as it underwent the
06:47repairs and plays with perspective to portray the claustrophobia of living in a city
06:52Calum what's going to be what's going to be the hero in your
06:57painting is it the mountains on the side or the island
06:59you know what it's going to be the island that's going to be the main thing
07:02that's where the bulk of the shadow is going to be which is exciting
07:04and of course in your submission it's quite light
07:07ordinary but it's gritty this is quite monumental and state
07:12completely
07:13yeah I think I'll be painting from a different feeling today
07:15I'm going to magnify the island I think
07:17oh okay
07:18that's my plan
07:19great
07:20I mean we've given you one of the best views we've ever had
07:22expect high standards
07:27yeah
07:28yeah
07:29yeah
07:30yeah
07:32beautiful isn't it so beautiful it's ridiculous I can't think of another word for it
07:36I know
07:37the blues and the greens and the water and the sky and the sun
07:41I
07:42oh yeah
07:43do you think it's always sunshine in here
07:44no my wife Lynn's from here
07:45oh
07:46she remembers this freezing over
07:47she's a child and ice skating here
07:48wow
07:49and he brought the kids up and we walked cat bells
07:51it rained as
07:52well I've got to say
07:53so seeing it like this is a miracle
07:55you know
07:56I don't want anything
07:57contemporary or new
07:58I want something beautiful and romantic
08:01I want
08:02to capture this as it is
08:03you want a painting you can hang above a blazing fireplace in an inn
08:07that's
08:08that's exactly what I want
08:09it's just so perfect
08:10it's just elemental
08:11yes
08:12you've got the
08:12water
08:13we've got these ancient hills that are eroding
08:15we've got the wood
08:16we've got the
08:17beautiful
08:18sky
08:19or
08:20that house
08:21oh here we go
08:22oh here
08:23yes
08:24it could contain Stephen King penning some gothic horror
08:27story
08:28about a man in the wilderness on an island surrounded
08:32by emptiness
08:33and his you know strange behaviour and murder
08:37I mean you know it could be
08:38thanks for spoiling it from me
08:39thanks for spoiling it from me
08:40thanks for spoiling it from me
08:42thank you
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08:52is a really individual thing, and I don't always just paint the colours I see.
08:57It's the emotional aspect of it. I like to think the colours are giving you that feeling, you know.
09:02Kim Dae's day job is concept artist for film and television.
09:07Her submission in mixed media depicts the dunes at Studland Bay.
09:12In Dorset, using charcoal, pastel, pen and acrylic paints to capture...
09:17..the form and colour of the dunes.
09:21So Kim...
09:22I think one of the things that really struck us about your submission is your use of colour.
09:27Yeah.
09:27And this really stunning mix of soft pastel.
09:32And then at the same time, some areas are really intense colours coming...
09:37Yes.
09:37..together?
09:38I think with colour, sometimes, I mean this is quite conventional at the moment, but as I...
09:42..as I go, I'm hoping that I'll start to feel more about which colours I want to...
09:47..to see in which I don't, the greens could be purple or pink or yellow.
09:52..if I decided to.
09:53Yeah.
09:54Good luck, yeah.
09:57..I'm going to keep my own a full colourfulchant.
09:58I don't think I should have done this like this...
09:59..but I will take a little colour.
10:00I think it's very beautiful.
10:02It's amazing.
10:03I'm going to take a little colour in my eyes and I'm going to take a little colour.
10:06I'm in my eye.
10:16Good luck.
10:18...and if you have a little colour.
10:20I'll go and you can find that looks very lovely.
10:22.
10:02I'm deeply spiritual and aware of energy.
10:07I'm connected to nature, so I do have a dreamlike mix.
10:12Media style that incorporates writing and text.
10:17I graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris before moving to London to work as a professor.
10:22Wan Lin's submission in charcoal was drawn during her...
10:27..at boarding school and depicts a brook on campus.
10:32Wan Lin.
10:34Yes?
10:35This is a poem to your mother.
10:37It is to...
10:39Hey, mother.
10:40Mother Nature.
10:41Ah.
10:42The spirit...
10:42The energy...
10:43The archetype of the mother...
10:44And my own.
10:45And this is how I start...
10:47...to start off this drawing.
10:48Okay.
10:49Are we building up to something substantial here?
10:52This is where I begin, the focal point, and then everything will grow around...
10:57Your submission is monochrome and drawing.
11:00We love the fact that it gave you all...
11:02All the feeling of this undergrowth without being slavishly sort of, you know, putting in all...
11:07...the detail.
11:08So you've got a very good shorthand at finding the essence of the material of the land.
11:12...escape.
11:13Well, I'm looking forward to seeing how it evolves, and I'm kind of excited to see what...
11:16Thank you for your open-mindedness.
11:19Our eight artists aren't alone at Derwent...
11:22...with the water today.
11:23Marching up the trail opposite the pods, here come our 50...
11:27...landscape artist Wildcards, and as always, a veritable art shop.
11:32...supplies.
11:33I've brought some collaging...
11:37paper, hand-painted papers, and also some quirky foreign stamps.
11:42Which I might do a bit of collaging, and then finish off with a little bit of ink pencil over the top as well.
11:47I'll never do this.
11:52...outside.
11:53Ever.
11:54There's bugs.
11:55I've been picking spiders out of it.
11:57But it's fun.
11:58I've tried to pack really light, but...
12:02I've got my watercolours and my watercolour pencils.
12:04We've got the best bits if you want, Trace.
12:07Bribes aside, just one of these wildcards will have the chance to nab a coveted...
12:12...place at this year's semi-final.
12:15What's that?
12:16I am...
12:17I'm doing linoprint.
12:18Okay.
12:19So, essentially, you trace it...
12:23I'll put it on the lino.
12:24Yeah.
12:25And then I'm going to start...
12:26...car...
12:27...carving it out, building up layers.
12:29Okay.
12:30Yeah.
12:31So, is Penny good at art?
12:33Well, she does do me cards with a pawprint.
12:35Oh, does she?
12:36Yes.
12:37Aww.
12:37Yes.
12:38Or Casso.
12:39Yes.
12:40Sorry.
12:42I'll use double of my fingers.
12:45Yes.
12:46Okay.
12:47You should be careful, but...
12:49...you should be scared.
12:51Excuse me.
12:52Let us in to wake up, now.
12:54Okay.
12:55That way.
12:56All right.
12:57Okay.
12:58All right.
12:59Let us in turn.
13:00Take a moment.
13:01Let us in.
13:02We're in.
13:03In the next quarter.
13:04All right.
13:05Right.
13:06Let us in.
13:07We're in.
13:08So, let us in.
13:09struggling a little bit to identify where the shadows will end up I want some nice shadows
13:14on the mountains
13:14I blocked every
13:19thing out I think the biggest struggle for me is building up the texture I'm not feeling
13:24too nervous about it but yes it's going really fast
13:29you
13:34you
13:39as the day heats up
13:44at Keswick in the Lake District our eight artists are capturing a truly glorious view
13:49of Derwent water and our next artist is using the rays to her advantage
13:54at the moment I'm just putting in really
13:59tonal values and trying to mix up bearing in mind that the light is moving and I'm
14:04hoping to capture the light on the right hand side later on today
14:07Judy Flanagan has
14:09recently embarked on a career as a professional artist after years working in primary education
14:14her submission in acrylics shows a Lincolnshire country lane
14:19with soft brushstrokes creating romantic light in an atmospheric scene
14:24Judy you look very much at ease but I'm slightly curious it looks to me like you are
14:29avoiding the main event you've gone to the right you're not looking at the island you just clicked it
14:34I have yes because I think that we know that the lights going to come across that way so I'm playing
14:39to the light across the water I think so yeah I'm going for a golden hour
14:43you're working
14:44I think it's very romantic isn't it and some of it's very impressionistic
14:49I'm looking at your submission in particular I think it's the sort of the brushstrokes as well
14:52the very breathy
14:54and feels like they're just about touching the surface I'm curious to see how the light is going to work
14:59nice
15:03yes
15:04I think...
15:09The mountains are big areas, the sky's a big area.
15:14I'm not...
15:19I'm not painting that.
15:21I suppose I like a particularly graphic...
15:24Clear style.
15:25To get clean lines, I use stencils where I really...
15:29I really want to get clarity between different shapes.
15:32David Garrett studied graph...
15:34...the graphic design at De Montfort University...
15:36...and after serving as a Church of England priest...
15:39...and now works part-time as a school chaplain in Eastbourne.
15:42His painting of Lullington...
15:44...Church in East Sussex contrasts a dark sky with bright sunlight.
15:49Using distinctive shapes and lines.
15:53David, we'd love to submit...
15:54...the composition.
15:55It looks realistic...
15:57...and then within it are these very...
15:59...sharp accents.
16:01And I couldn't work out how you did them till I saw...
16:04...or this in your hand.
16:05I have tried to paint looser...
16:07...but I am a slightly...
16:09...obsessed with clean lines...
16:11...and things looking neat and tidy.
16:13Your sharpness is...
16:14...about rhythm, isn't it?
16:15I think it's clarity.
16:16I just kind of like...
16:17Oh, OK.
16:18I quite like things to be clear.
16:19On the other hand, there are softer passages...
16:21...so you are fully aware of...
16:22...the painterly quality.
16:24...and contrast.
16:25I mean, that has got sharp edges...
16:27...and so that has appealed to you.
16:29Oh, yeah, yeah, definitely.
16:30It has a great rhythm...
16:31...and it has great contrast between soft and sharp.
16:33So...
16:34...so I'll let you get on.
16:35Yeah, definitely.
16:39Well, thanks for having me.
16:40Thank you so much.
16:44My work talks a lot about trying to capture people and mood of a place.
16:49I just think that when you put a person in a landscape, it gives it a narrative, a kind of resistor.
16:54With a diploma in illustration under his belt, professional artist...
16:59Kevin Day has been painting scenes around his hometown of Newcastle for over 20 years.
17:04His submission in oils with his trademark...
17:09...and figures aim to capture beauty in the everyday.
17:14So Kevin, tell me a little bit about the figures in the landscape and...
17:19...and maybe the story that they're telling.
17:21It was just a mother and a daughter that were just on...
17:24...on the beach, so I'm just drawn to Portfield.
17:26I know it might not be popular, but it was too nice to write as a...
17:29...of me wife and daughter, so how to put them in.
17:31They make me think about skill.
17:34A lot, actually.
17:35You know, the relationship between...
17:36Yeah, the size of the landscape.
17:38Yeah.
17:39And how...
17:39...one feels when one is surrounded by such a...
17:42Yeah, yeah.
17:43...grand landscape.
17:44I mean...
17:44...when I think about your submission, it seems to me that...
17:46...you're mostly interested in lively scenes of the everyday.
17:49Yeah, it's definitely completely different in this environment, so...
17:52Well, I think it looks really great.
18:02I'm using some of the elements over by the...
18:04...the other jetties, because there's lots of kind of structures there.
18:07And I'm really interested in playing with...
18:09...smart making to create depth of field.
18:11Rosie Goods studied painting and printmaking.
18:14...at the Royal Academy of Arts.
18:16And uses expressive mark making in her depictions of...
18:19...derelict buildings and ruins.
18:21Rosie's submission in water-based mixed...
18:24...the media is of wasteland near her home in East Sussex.
18:29Rosie, one of the things we loved about your submission was...
18:31...the scale of it and the level of details, like...
18:34...everything piled on top of everything else.
18:36How did you find that way of working?
18:39I quite like having a lot of layers...
18:41...in the actual subject matter.
18:42Yeah.
18:43...and then try and work the layers.
18:44...into the picture.
18:45I think using lots of little lines and marks helps me to understand.
18:49...the terrain and the three-dimensional qualities of things.
18:51I've been watching you.
18:52I mean, there's a lot of clear lines...
18:54...and then there's an awful lot of scribbling...
18:55...that happens as well, that you're not...
18:57...when you're not even looking at the page.
18:59...and here you're using very particular vertical and then horizontal lines.
19:03And I can see...
19:04...the way in which you apply the mark making...
19:05...that it's got a lot of vigour and energy.
19:07It's a great start already, actually.
19:09And if you're after even more vigour and energy...
19:14...it's over to the Wildcards...
19:16...who've got all kinds of art on show today.
19:19So, Jackie, this feels like...
19:22...sort of colourful candy...
19:24...and there's an art floss.
19:25Oh, it is.
19:26It's gorgeous.
19:27It's addictive.
19:28You just want to play with it.
19:29Can I eat it?
19:30No, don't do that.
19:29Is it wool?
19:30Yeah.
19:31You've got different Welsh wools.
19:32It's mad.
19:33It's sort of magical and fluffy.
19:34...and colourful.
19:35You want to touch it all?
19:36You do want to touch it all.
19:37You do want to touch it all.
19:39You do want to touch it all.
19:40I'm loving the textures on here.
19:44Tell me why you need a magnifying glass.
19:46So, I'm registered sight impaired...
19:48...and...
19:49...and I use a magnifier to try and get into more of the details.
19:53This is miraculous.
19:54I think it's fantastic.
19:59So, Liz, Karen, where's your artwork?
20:02Where?
20:03Support team.
20:04You're the support team.
20:05We're the support team.
20:06Yes.
20:07We're the art angels.
20:08What does being an art angel in...
20:09...involved?
20:10It involves looking all the picnic stuff.
20:12What have you got?
20:13All sorts of things.
20:14Okay.
20:14I think I might become an art angel.
20:15It sounds like it's quite...
20:16It's quite a good job.
20:17It's...
20:18Yeah.
20:19It's the best.
20:20It's the best.
20:21It's the best.
20:23It's the best.
20:24It's my 노래.
20:25It's a great way.
20:26It's a great joy, settingsks.
20:27It's great.
20:28It is.
20:29It's a great legacy...
20:30...OREZ NEWSWIN.
20:31It's our Vietnam Officers, Highwater, and the textbook.
20:32It's my my freedom.
20:34We're going to take back...
20:35It's the best three platforms and far...
20:36...not much coal.
20:37This is the best one.
20:38Over the past four quarters.
20:39We hit that phase five more opponents.
20:40Oh well, let's move this.
20:41I don't want to take a chance...
20:42...oris in order for us.
20:44...foria...
20:45...lost of our capital,
20:46...foria...
20:47...is we've made a passion?
20:48Oh, this is pretty hard,
20:49I have to nie.
20:50Ever Once you watch...
20:51...you know...
20:29Along the shoreline from the angelic wildcards,
20:33pressure.
20:34Pressure is mounting at the pods.
20:36Two hours, it's gone by in two minutes.
20:39It's still looking a bit basic.
20:41Hopefully, with the remaining time,
20:43I'll be able to get some more.
20:44As well as knocking out the red undercoat.
20:49I think for the next hour,
20:54I want to get the rest of the blocking in done.
20:56So when I put the light in,
20:58it will just bring you up.
20:59The way through the painting.
21:04The changing lights, that's the main problem,
21:06but the clouds don't look too bad if it stays like this.
21:09This sort of light.
21:10But you've got to go with what you've got,
21:12so it'll be okay.
21:14You've got to go with what you've got.
21:28creating their own unique versions of the summary scene in front of them.
21:33So right now I'm adding on...
21:38Dentelle de Calais, which is a type of French lace I like to embroider because that's...
21:43that gives it a texture and an intimate aspect, like skin, and that's going to...
21:48Add even more depth.
21:53I've been trying to be a bit decisive about shadow placement.
21:56I can't quite wait.
21:58For the end of the daylight, so I'm painting in where I'd like the shadows to be.
22:02And then getting...
22:03All the beautiful colours in and then working back in pencil.
22:07But even in one of the...
22:08the most beautiful landscapes in the UK, you can't please everyone.
22:13I'm not happy, Andy.
22:14Oh, no.
22:15You're going too slow.
22:16I want this to move on.
22:17OK.
22:18It's a competition.
22:19I know.
22:20I know.
22:21It's getting there.
22:22Getting in there?
22:23Yeah.
22:24I mean, I can see a great...
22:23some brown and some brown marks.
22:24No!
22:25No!
22:26It's coming together.
22:27Oh, Christ.
22:29Have we peaked?
22:30Will we ever get a better view than this?
22:33I think it's the best we've ever had.
22:35There is truly a range of...
22:38approaches and I'm really excited to see actually where they all go.
22:41David's working with this...
22:43stencil, which has straight lines, but it's a hard place to find straight lines in.
22:48How's it going on?
22:49But this morning when we started, you could see the mountains really far.
22:53And I think at that moment they wear quite a lot of straight lines and he's really bringing
22:57out the...
22:58the geometry in the landscape.
22:59It's not obvious, but it's there.
23:01It does work very well.
23:03for me and David's work is that combination of soft and sharp edges and in between...
23:08those, the red coming through, it's got a very beautiful touch the way he puts paint down.
23:12Kim zoomed right...
23:13She's quite in, isn't she, on the house over there on the island.
23:15Kim has really completely...
23:18filled up her page with the landscape and in doing this...
23:23she's abstracting it.
23:25And I think she's great at colours, but she's also great...
23:28it adds textures.
23:29Yeah, I like what Kim's doing.
23:30When you see the palette on its own, I sort of get a bit allergic...
23:33I think, oh, it's lots of complementary colours, jewel-like tones and things like that.
23:37But when you get close...
23:38what's up?
23:39It is full of mood.
23:40Callum got here with a very urban submission.
23:43We have not given him an urban landscape.
23:45How's he getting on?
23:46For someone who's really interested in...
23:48animation and illustration, this is a classic animation backdrop.
23:53You know, you can see that in Disney, Miyazaki...
23:56like, you know, these people would have a field day.
23:58And I think this is what he's having fun with.
24:00In his submission, there was a wonkiness to the...
24:03drawing that gave it a charm.
24:04But what I'm slightly worried about is the landscape has a huge weight to it, which I...
24:08don't feel in this image.
24:09He's got to keep it a bit more balanced, I think.
24:11Judy's chosen the central part...
24:13the path of Cat Bell as the focal point.
24:16And lots of scratches and how you find...
24:18her work.
24:19She's doing some really interesting stuff with the light.
24:21You've got beautiful shadow on the side...
24:23of Cat Bell.
24:24I mean, it is coming together in a very romantic way, but there's lots of grandeur...
24:28all sorts of majesty.
24:29At the moment, there's some really beautiful touches.
24:31You feel the light and the...
24:33essence of the air.
24:34But the more that's being put in, it's shifting inexorably towards...
24:38a conventional landscape.
24:39So, I like to say, tell it to stop, but I can see that more needs to be done.
24:43So, it's a difficult one.
24:44Andy seems to be in his blue period.
24:46It's blue.
24:47It's blue here, blue there.
24:48Blue everywhere.
24:49Andy's given us a fantastic sense of the foreground.
24:52We've got the water which...
24:53the way in which he's constructed it, you really feel that sense of...
24:56journeying across it towards the island.
24:58You've got this lovely big expanse.
25:00You need it to be finished.
25:01From what I understand, I think this is...
25:03he's also someone who isn't a fast painter, and so he's adopting a much looser way of painting.
25:08which is really miles away from the submission.
25:10So, it's a complete mystery to me how this...
25:13is going to turn out.
25:14It's all going on in Huan Lin's piece of...
25:18work.
25:19We've got lace.
25:20We've got a poem.
25:21We've got drawing.
25:23I think Huan Lin is someone who works across various disciplines, and she doesn't make...
25:28the distinction between the writing practice and the painting and the...
25:33drawing practice.
25:34So, it's all coming together in the work.
25:36I think the different elements aren't combined...
25:38the painting somehow.
25:39All her ideas are being kept in separate strata.
25:41Interesting approach.
25:43But I think it needs a bit of finessing.
25:45Kevin has given us some people.
25:49Why are you looking at me?
25:50Well, I know, Ty, that this is not something you generally like.
25:52It's really interesting.
25:53It's what Kevin does though, isn't it?
25:55It's his thing.
25:56Yes.
25:57I loved the emptiness as he's...
25:58started today.
25:59And I thought somehow he wasn't capturing the magnificence of the landscape, but he was...
26:03capturing a quietness.
26:04And then he's put the two figures in.
26:06And then I realised it was an adult and a child.
26:08Yeah.
26:09And suddenly the narrative shifts.
26:11Is it about handing over...
26:13this beautiful landscape in an intact way to the next generation?
26:17Is that the narrative?
26:18Look at you being sucked in.
26:20There's something in the Derwent water.
26:22Yeah.
26:23I do wonder a little bit about scale, because are they the right proportion?
26:26But it's a beautiful painting.
26:28Lovely oiliness of the paint.
26:30He's a beautiful painter.
26:32Rosie's...
26:33Drawing.
26:34Watercolour.
26:35Vibrates.
26:36There's so much going on.
26:37It's alive, isn't it?
26:38I...
26:38I think Rosie's found a really interesting corner.
26:40Lots of layering.
26:41Lots of busyness.
26:42Lots of...
26:43Verticals.
26:44Lots of horizontals.
26:45I really loved Rosie's submission.
26:46It was...
26:48Speaking of the landscapes that are forgotten, that are being...
26:53taken over by nature.
26:55It was about entanglement.
26:57And today she...
26:58had to look away from where everybody else is looking.
27:01And I'm really excited actually for her vision.
27:03I think it's quite unique.
27:04You so much the emotion and glow外 with it.
27:05What's unique?
27:06This is Sarah Dabry mullered with
27:08Temucap Truth.
27:09You thinkização means God to meet a uniqueọ.
27:10You think, the sense of lack.
27:11Your deviates are searching.
27:12T seja why it's unprecedented.
27:13Go away once.
27:14You look wh comin, die teas.
27:15You lookgr samhENN Um.
27:16Don't do the good, you look.
27:17You look, the ghosts are atimes.
27:18As you blue and say hi.
27:20As you blue and say.
27:21Ha ha ha.
27:21Ah yeah.
27:22The good, most're cheeks Für you.
27:23You look.
27:24The new town is the new town in Maybellian потом.
27:27Each home is filled with the cool road.
27:28And if you see all of your walls.
27:29The new town our grillets.
27:31strong it just starts to erode the softness I think
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27:41Hi, Rosie. Hi. Were you getting it done? Because it looks ingrained.
27:46Oh, thank you. It's full of very small lines, so I'm trying to put some slightly bigger marks in there.
27:51Well, I need to work out what I'm doing with the sky and the...
27:56Foreground and actually the middle ground as well, so they were pretty much everything.
28:00So the top, the middle of the bottom.
28:01Yeah, everything.
28:06Yeah.
28:07Yeah.
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28:10Yeah.
28:11Derwent Water, known as the Queen of the Lakes thanks to its majestic...
28:16...surroundings has also lent its name to an object fundamentally...
28:21...close to our artists' hearts.
28:23According to legend, between the 1550...
28:26...1560s, there was a great big storm through the Borrowdale Valley and the next day...
28:31...when shepherds were tending to their flocks.
28:33They found what they thought was a lump.
28:36...a lump of coal in the roots of an overturned tree.
28:38But it wasn't coal, it was graphite.
28:40But it also left the...
28:41...the hands were really stained, so they decided they'd take this rock...
28:44...wrap it in bits of leather and...
28:46...twine and string and they made essentially what was the first pencil.
28:50By the...
28:51...the 1630s, graphite production had become a cottage industry in the local area.
28:56And then in the 19th century, Keswick gained a reputation for producing some...
29:01...of the world's finest pencils.
29:03So the first big pencil manufacturer...
29:06...the iron factory opened in 1832 here in Keswick.
29:09And it was...
29:11...what helped promote it from being a small...
29:13...scenic touristy town into the heart.
29:16...of pencil production.
29:17The Derwent Pencil Museum opened in 1982.
29:21We have the biggest coloured pencil in the world.
29:23You might need a couple of friends to help you lift through it, but it's actually...
29:26...a real pencil, has a full core and you could draw a beautiful piece of artwork with it if you try.
29:31All right.
29:32All right.
29:35All right.
29:36All right.
29:37Alongside our pod artists, with the wild cards now drawing to the...
29:41...end of their day's painting, the judges are sniffing around for their favourite artwork.
29:46Hiya.
29:47Hello.
29:48I'm here because there's a beautiful smell emanating from your workstation.
29:51It smells of...
29:52...sweet.
29:53What are you working with?
29:54Yes.
29:55I work with lavender spikes.
29:56It's not carcinogenic.
29:57No, no, no.
29:58It prolongs your life as an artist.
30:00That's...
30:01It's very sensible.
30:02And it smells good.
30:04And tell me a little...
30:06...about this graffito there.
30:08So this idea of scratching the paint away to reveal the...
30:11Yeah.
30:11...surface underneath.
30:12Yeah, because I like the grounding underneath, but also you've got some amazing pathways.
30:16It's almost like I was walking with my finger.
30:19Yeah.
30:20Only one...
30:21...the wild cards can win today.
30:26I always seem to be ending up here.
30:28I think you produce some very fine art.
30:32Thank you so much.
30:33It's Gemma, isn't it?
30:34Thank you so much.
30:35It's Gemma, isn't it?
30:36Thank you so much.
30:36Gemma Axton's rich textured panorama is the judges' overall favourite.
30:41For somebody who has to feel their way through the landscape,
30:44you've done an amazing job.
30:46I'm going to produce something really beautiful,
30:48I want to touch it and I won't.
30:51It's really good because I'm not hindered to what I can do,
30:54I can still work the same as anyone.
30:56But I just need a few different tools to help.
31:01Gemma from Dunkeld in the Scottish Highlands enters a pool of wildcard winners.
31:06One of whom will be picked to paint in the semi-final.
31:11I'm going to produce something really beautiful.
31:16I was waiting for the sun to arrive.
31:21And that really was going to run the drama.
31:23So it was a risk this morning whether to wait for it.
31:25So I now have.
31:26I now have a sparkle on the water.
31:31I think I've managed to get a bit of this.
31:36The spirit of the place.
31:37So changing light is always a challenge.
31:41There's a lot of trees.
31:44I thought it was just a mountain.
31:46But at least half of the view is trees.
31:48So just trying to work out what I can get done with the time that's
31:51left.
31:56So just trying to work out what I can get done with the
32:01help us.
32:04Our eight artists are nearing the end of their days.
32:06on the shores of Derwent water in Keswick do you know how long we've got
32:1115 minutes okay
32:16it's all right yeah
32:21thank you
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32:26Jen what are you doing out here it's nearly the end I'm looking at the details that I
32:31find really beautiful I want to get the essence of the trees
32:36so I'm drawing in all the textures that I can see and that's being done with a Derwent
32:41pencil yeah 2b or not 2b oh it is 2b it is
32:46Andy I walk past here in one
32:51direction and it was all monochrome yeah and then I walked back the other direction and
32:56it was full of color and light and some magic trick occurred
33:01I'm just considering how much more light I can put in I just
33:06need to reflect and not make any rash decisions otherwise it could all go the wrong way
33:11way it'd be great to have a few more hours but
33:16see that's not available right artists time for finishing touches if
33:21you haven't done them yet remember it's never too late
33:26you got five minutes oh my gosh thanks for the
33:31empathy laughs
33:36I would like a bit more time to just put some more texture in the water there was a little bit cloud
33:41earlier so I couldn't work on it I'm just looking at any
33:46thing that I could make a bit more interesting without overworking it it's difficult to find
33:51the right balance
33:52I'm not crying
33:56just my peritone swearing off
34:01I'm not crying
34:06artists your time is up please stop what you're doing and step away from your artwork
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37:39way of working is interesting
37:40the way Cat Bell sits in the page is very believable you understand the slopes
37:44you can make physical
37:45space the island works so how do you then add the written word
37:50how do you add texture how do you sew it and add glitter to it I think these are things that need to be
37:55negotiated with a bit more finesse I like the idea of Wanlin's work
38:00I think there's a certain generosity there to the way in which she's meshing
38:05poetry and craft and various textures very
38:10various ways of working within the same painting and I really love that
38:15that's a fabulous piece of water isn't it Kevin's really gives you a sense of
38:20of the distance between the shore and that distant mountain it has a physical presence and shape and
38:25the volume and a very realist I think incredibly well understood lens
38:30landscape and a really good understanding of how to recreate it I really love
38:35Kevin's approach I love that freedom he has and that painterliness that we've seen
38:40and the fact that he managed to introduce figures and in a good way
38:45I like Rosie's what is it just mark just making
38:50marks in response to what she's seeing there's something unprecious but and
38:55spontaneous and and the image appears and it feels very organic I like this idea
39:00of layers in the work and it's almost like she's presenting us with all the
39:05various stages that she went through today when she was tackling this landscape all at one
39:10months so you get a sense that the final work shows the process and
39:15shows how it's come to be now I think I might struggle to get to my fun
39:20final three today because there are more that need to go into the final three than three
39:25artists you've all done stuff
39:30you've all done sterling work today thank you so much three of you will be going forward to the
39:33judges shortlist
39:35and those artists are Kim
39:40we have another Governor talking to her
39:42for the American Indian solvenor
39:44Jackson thank you so much
39:45Andy Cropper.
39:55And finally, Rosie Good.
40:05It's very spiritual behind those glasses.
40:10Considering how difficult it's been today, I'm absolutely stoked.
40:15Being shortlisted means everything to me.
40:18I had a look at Kim and Andy's...
40:20...and I thought their paintings were beautiful.
40:22Yeah, it was really, really strong work.
40:25The judges now have the difficult task of picking today's winner.
40:29Only one artist...
40:30...can go through to the semi-final.
40:32To help them, they also consider the selected artists...
40:35...of missions.
40:38It's been a privilege to be here, really, today, hasn't it?
40:40On a day like this.
40:41I mean, any day.
40:42It's such a gorgeous spot.
40:43The majesty of...
40:45...the scenery today, I think, definitely made everybody raise their game a little bit.
40:49So, Kim...
40:50...we've zoomed in today on that mysterious boathouse, Stephen King's writing.
40:55...room, you know, party house, whatever's going on over there, obviously brought out a lot of...
41:00...beautiful colours in both the submission and today, didn't she?
41:02I remember seeing Kim's submission and...
41:05...thinking, could it be all the colours are made up and it's just somebody...
41:10...that she's having fun here and now, having seen her work today, she's reacting to what she's...
41:15...seeing and it feels authentic. I like to go on this journey.
41:18It's all about how colour works...
41:20...together, how colours mix, how she blends them, how they work...
41:25...against one another. In the submission, there was a lot of softness and a lot of...
41:30...gentleness to that landscape. And I think you still have that in today's work.
41:35Of all the artists today, I think you'd probably find Andy's work hard...
41:40...but it's to pair up the submission and today's work. They're so different.
41:43I think with Andy's works, they both have...
41:45...merits. The pops of light on the electric light on his submission are just incredible.
41:50...because they're not precise. They bleed out in the way that light does.
41:53And then the beautiful...
41:55...the passages of water that we see in the painting today, where you understand the...
42:00...reflections of the sky, you understand the glassiness of the water, and it's sketchy.
42:05But it's also very open.
42:06There's a certain economy there in the gesture for...
42:10...how he's approached the water, but it works. It functions. And it's a few...
42:15...brushes that signify reflection. It's a few brushes that signify movement.
42:20You get it.
42:21I don't know if a painting gives us an insight into what's...
42:25...going on in an artist's mind. If it does, Rosie's head must be chaos.
42:30She chooses subject matter where the man-made meets all...
42:35...organic and the overlooked. But it is just reacting with marks to what you're seeing.
42:40And then the image gets its own life.
42:42So you think, a vision, I want to paint or draw this.
42:45And then thousands of marks made from...
42:48...look, mark, look, mark. Great.
42:50...build up this.
42:51Because there's so many layers, things start to coalesce from the bottom or sideways...
42:54...and...
42:55...the image starts to take form.
42:57When I see them together, of course there's...
43:00...there's a connection in terms of the mark making. But I also think about...
43:04...a certain way...
43:05...a certain way of representing time. And how...
43:07...you know, in the submission this was about what time...
43:10...does to the landscape. You know, time destroys the landscape bit by bit.
43:15This idea that eventually nature reclaims it.
43:19Rosie is a teacher.
43:20So she shows us her work.
43:22Yeah, yeah, yeah.
43:25Kim, Andy, Rosie, you've all done immensely well.
43:30...to get through to the judges shortlist. But only one of you can win today.
43:33And the artist going through...
43:35...to the semi-final is...
43:40...Kim Day.
43:45Thank you very much.
43:46Thank you very much.
43:52I really had no expectations so it's just...
43:55...a fantastic end to the day. And yeah, I can't stop smiling. So yeah, it's really great.
44:00I think I'm gonna celebrate by just having a nice drink and maybe some pizza.
44:06I'm a little bit sad, but absolutely beautiful day.
44:10And Kim's done amazing. I think it's a beautiful piece of work.
44:14Kim's got the...
44:15...the most delicious sense of colour. And she showed us that she can really respond...
44:20...to place. It's magical and deep and rich.
44:25And what Kim has done really well is she's got that majesty, that statue...
44:30...especially of the mountains sitting behind the island. But she's brought that little...
44:35...bit of herself to it and you could feel the artist through the work.
44:40If you'd like to test the waters and enter next year's competition or want to find out more about the work...
44:45...of our featured artists, visit our website skyartsartistoftheyear.com
44:50...TV.
44:55Next time, don't forget your SPF. We're at...
45:00...St. James' Park on one of the hottest days of the year.
45:03Four hours of panic, I'm gonna get...
45:05...that's what it's gonna be.
45:06With eight new artists stepping into the spotlight.
45:09I've never painted...
45:10...outdoors before. I'm very good at inventing excuses not to do it.
45:15Who will be sent packing from the palace?
45:17My paints are drying very quickly on my brush.
45:20...not just on the palette.
45:21And who will reign supreme?
45:23Hopefully, this very pencil here.
45:25I can get all the details I need.
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