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Landscape Artist of the Year - Season 11 - Episode 04: Skiddaw Mountain
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20:59i like to mix the fine art aspect of watercolor with something just a little bit different a
21:05little bit funky lemia hello i mean we'll get to your painting in a minute but look how stylish
21:22you are oh thank you do you always paint in this sort of get up sometimes yeah and the white
21:27gloves
21:27are they just to keep your hands clean or yes because i'm extremely messy right um comes with
21:32my adhd so i have i if i don't have my gloves i'm it will be all over my my
21:37my hands
21:43what do you think you need to do i quite like the mountains and the sky
21:47maybe a bit more judging judging okay a bit more judging needs to be done
21:59the finer details are also the focus for our pod artists as they face the end of their second hour
22:05and a rising temperature feeling all right i'm feeling hot slightly sunburn would you like mommy
22:13put some on for you i feel i've got a healthy bit of stress going on but it's all right
22:24it's good
22:25it's it's fine but yeah i'm feeling it a little bit at this stage things are in the balance and
22:33i'm hoping that once i've got the basic colors down i can get in the detail i'm panicking all the
22:40time
22:41sorry
22:56in the heart of the lake district eight artists are halfway through their day painting skidder mountain
23:02and the town of keswick i started working from the back into the front did the mountains did the
23:11back layer of the trees got to the buildings wasn't enjoying that process i've left that be and i've
23:17kind of continued working forward and i'm now revisiting the buildings in the mid-ground
23:35i've put the house in quite a few times and it hasn't quite worked i haven't got the values quite
23:38right i'm leaving it to last when i know that i've got all the time to just focus on the
23:42house
23:54i hate to be negative but uh it's not worked out as well as i right at what point did
24:00you start to
24:00feel it was going off east as soon as i started to try and put in the building i mean
24:06are there
24:06bits of it that you're happy with i quite like the mountain i was just thinking that it's fabulous
24:12actually that's very nice so the last time i was in cumbria was for a screening of a movie in
24:22which i
24:22played cumbrian icon postman pat and okay the weather was not like this where are we it's like being in
24:33the south of france yeah yeah it's it's just the light is very sheer i can barely see you it's
24:39so
24:39intense so is that affecting our painters do we think i think it's making some of them sort of
24:44take liberties with their colors i mean there's some psychedelic activity going on out there today
24:50and then there's also some muddy stuff as well amelia's on her fourth color she says she's behind
24:57but she hopes to get back on track well amelia has a plan doesn't she she wants to get six
25:01colors in
25:02by the end of the day she should be okay as long as she's not getting overly distracted she's working
25:08with a really challenging medium which is not really made for on plein air painting but there's
25:15also a lot that she can do you know she can play with inkiness she can play with weight she
25:20can play
25:20with layering so i'm curious to see what she comes up with i'm worried dan's going to run out of
25:26space
25:28so much going down into that small area he's going to run out of white soon oh no i think
25:33he's left
25:34that lovely little slice of diagonal white space at the bottom that's given a real tension to it i
25:40really like that little gap that he's left there i do think he's running out of space and not space
25:45as
25:46in terms of composition but when you're drawing it's what you put down but also what you leave it's the
25:52way the paper works within the marks and the more you work it of course there is a danger of
25:58then you
25:58close that texture so he's he's produced the drawing now i don't know what he can add to it to
26:04be honest
26:04stephanie's putting a house in in the middle left of her painting and she feels this will make or break
26:10the work she's tried several times rubbed it out several times yes stephanie works within a traditional
26:18sort of art historical context and she's done very well i mean earlier today she saw that smoke
26:23rising from that house and it sort of set off a narrative it's a difficult one to get just right
26:27it really worries me the idea of a house i had no idea because one of the things i find
26:31with stephanie's
26:32work at the moment is i fall into the valleys of what she's painted so i would worry if she
26:38was going
26:38to introduce some other element that would distract my eye ian's given us a lot of the green stuff
26:43and and the promise of houses he's like a developer who's told us he's going to build an estate wow
26:50it's curious with ian isn't it because ian is one of the few that has gone wide
26:54and as a result it just does feel like you're looking at just a mass of green at the moment
26:58it's very blocky it hasn't got the finesse yet that one would need to see by the end of the
27:04day
27:04it feels really unresolved at the moment so i'm a little bit worried about how it's going to look
27:09he's got work to do kathy feels slightly panicked has she reason to be i don't think kathy needs
27:16to worry pastels are quite a fast medium she's still got some beautiful passages in the distant
27:21hills she knows how to manipulate the colors with pastel i think the whole thing is there to be
27:28one scott's been busy with that brown paint hasn't he slathering it on i mean i don't know if he's
27:34sponsored by brown paint you know scott marches to the beat of his own drum and
27:39i know it sounds perverse but i really like the cream sky he's given us you know it's just
27:44lovely and smooth it's a wonderful contrast that's a bit i hate the cream sky what are you doing i
27:50i
27:50don't know what the man is doing but i love it i get that sense of him just trying stuff
27:55out and
27:56mark making and i'm fascinated by his language but he's just mad genius really
28:04chris seems very chilled says he's right where he wants to be all's good with the world i think the
28:10thing that he's approaching really well is that this is a landscape that has many layers actually
28:14there are several foregrounds there's vegetation first and then there's houses and then there's
28:19the mountains and i think he's really attacking those various layers i think he's doing really well
28:24i i worry that chris hasn't progressed enough at this stage of the day and the work holds so much
28:29promise but i think he's like up against time alison says she's at the point where normally she'd
28:34put the painting in the garage for three weeks come back to it reassess start again what's she
28:39seeing or not seeing that she might notice at a later date that you can see i like the alison
28:43set up the painting squeezing skidder right to the top there's great dynamism the colors she's using as
28:50underpainting are powerful the challenge when you're working with such dense colors and such
28:55a bold language of colors is it still needs to read and it still needs to sing together and right
29:05now
29:05this is the thing that worries me a little bit about alison's painting
29:20so it's the pine trees that i'm working on now my painting was looking really bare without
29:26much of the foreground trees in so i've just started making some bold marks to get some color for the
29:37trees down i do feel i'm on track at the moment there's nothing dramatic happening in the painting
29:40it's just a kind of sense of as the sun moves around it's changing uh and trying to remember
29:46how it may be looked when i started the painting this morning
29:51i put the prints up to dry and so i can visually see what's going on i've done the blue
29:57sky some
29:57clouds and greens and then i'm gonna have a little bit of purple in there which i'm very excited about
30:09hey there steven i mean the first thing i've got to say is that the sky is not blue blue
30:16sky is so
30:17traditional right so it's so sky it's so sky yeah yeah there is going to be an element of color
30:23i've
30:23seen quite a few sort of paragliders going around okay so i'm waiting for the right moment to put
30:29just a little splash of color just draw the eye i'm convinced that joan bakewell is going to be one
30:35of them oh yeah and just drop them yeah i wouldn't put it past it yeah just land on the
30:39wall wouldn't that be great yeah
30:52along from the pods the wildcard artists are putting the finishing touches to their artworks
31:08i think i'm almost there i just need to add some detailing into the foreground it's mainly highlights
31:15now of our like foreground trees
31:21it's now time for the judges to decide on today's winner
31:52i'm so stunned and i'm so happy
31:55i'm really happy
32:00lemia elgin from oxfordshire will enter a pool of wildcard winners from all the heats
32:05just one of whom will be chosen to compete in the semi-final
32:19the purple's on yes this is means i'm nearly done that's color number seven which yeah that's a lot but
32:27it's
32:27it's all right yep i'm happy with that so far
32:39the time constraints are preying on me slightly because i'm doing it in quite a loose way
32:44that's okay i'll just go with what time i have and work with them
32:54the one thing that could ruin it at this stage would be
32:58if i put too much pastel on i've got to be really careful now and be selective about what i
33:04do next
33:32the lake district
33:45i want to see you now
33:46but not all artists have time to sample my offerings
33:52i'm just putting the finishing touches to my painting and i think if i'm going to do any more to
33:56it
33:56i might just make it go the wrong way
34:05i have just been finishing off the house which i've left till last because it was the biggest
34:11challenge but i feel like it's done one minute left one minute
34:21just so
34:22i need a beer
34:44one of these eight artists can win today's heat
34:57and be in the running for the title of landscape artist of the year
35:02the winning artist will travel to the west coast of county mayo
35:06to paint islands famous mountain crow patrick
35:09as a constant presence in the landscape the ever-changing light and mood of the mountain
35:14have inspired artists and writers for centuries
35:17and it will be up to our winner to convey the mystery
35:20as well as the majesty of this beloved landmark for the national gallery of ireland
35:42i think it was a bit overwhelming this view today
35:50when i saw the view today i saw skidder and all its glory i didn't see the town really and
35:57i think they
35:58were forced to do that because of the there's nothing on that mountain really i feel that many of the
36:03artists today picked up the artists today picked up on color either in a realistic way or an imagined way
36:09amelia's i think you fall into that deep almost purple color in the valleys which is
36:17for me what resonates in this landscape all the time and i think amelia's done that really well
36:21yeah i i love amelia's treatment of the mountain i don't understand the language in the foreground
36:29in relationship to the mountain i think dan's been more successful in conveying our relationship to
36:38the mountain than amelia yeah he's put pencil down on paper in so many different ways that he conveys
36:45this immense distance it's a marvel really that size it's almost like you want to look at it with
36:50a magnifying glass the density and the detail is incredible and i think he's really done a great job
36:55working with highlights and gradation stephanie i mean just by choosing the right tone and color
37:05you can put miles into a paint i don't i don't know how that works that's the magic of paint
37:09what i think stephanie has done is that you know if you observe the distance the distance is often
37:16slightly purple she's represented that beautifully in that sort of smoky hazy way
37:21i think ian knew he had made a mistake in putting the houses in and i think because
37:26the paint was drying so quickly he really struggled to adjust it i think there are really
37:32good moments in the mountains i think he did very very well with that you get the sense of the
37:35mountain behind us looming over us and then i think that mountain is it works very well
37:39yeah out of all of them i think kathy got a real sense of the heat of the day i
37:43feel hot looking
37:43at it i think there's some really successful moments in the work i really love the highlights
37:48and there's some gorgeous moments in the houses as well the foreground i find a little bit difficult
37:54to read scott what a fabulous user of paint i think he's an abstract painter i think you can see
38:02in the paint buildings drawn in but you don't know that they're buildings it's just his reaction to them
38:07i enjoy the generosity in how he's working with paint there i think there's something really really
38:13powerful in that way of approaching the landscape having said that i think there are also some moments
38:18in this painting that still needed to be resolved in order to feel as confident and intentional as
38:25we'd like this mark to feel throughout the work i love chris's use of shadow you understand that the
38:31light's coming from the left towards the right i think it's full of promise the thing that i think
38:36he's done very well which many other artists have struggled with is to articulate that sense of
38:40depth alison's work is just full of vigor isn't it but i feel cold it's blue which slightly confuses me
38:48but she's definitely got the drama she's definitely got the energy and definitely got the menace
39:00artist artist thank you so much for a terrific day you've all worked very hard but the judges have
39:05now selected a short list of three artists the first artist is
39:20the second artist on the short list is
39:25stephanie euphemia
39:34and the third artist is
39:39chris wright
39:47well done good shot face
39:51to be shortlisted just means everything it is beyond what i was expecting it's such a confidence
39:58boost i think you spend so much time in the studio on your own that you don't really have
40:01much feedback on your work so it's really nice to have had that yeah that reassurance
40:15the judge's choice is based not just on today's performance but also on the artist's submissions
40:26so a day painting a brooding mountain dan clearly works fairly small i'm casting my mind forward to
40:34the national gallery of ireland who have decided that crow patrick has never been captured and that's
40:39a glaring emission in their collection they commission a painting we're all gathered around
40:44there's a big curtain it gets dropped and there's a three by four inch tiny black and white
40:51mountain is that a problem there is a long tradition of very powerful works being made on a very small
40:58scale and one of the things that i recognize in dan's work is an incredible intensity and that's
41:06not just the intensity of the mark making but there's an intensity that draws you in and that's
41:10partly to do with the scale and we can put it in a really big mount with a gold frame
41:14it'll be fine
41:16when i'm looking at dan's work and his submission the submission for me it's more the language of film
41:22there's something there that feels very cinematographic it's two completely different ways
41:27to sort of translate something about the world around us and it's something that he's able to
41:32do with so little and all of it is about you know how much pressure he applies and that's quite
41:37extraordinary interesting though with stephanie's you've got that same i hadn't realized the
41:41foreground you've got that same thrust from right to left actually i didn't realize it was a device
41:47that she's used more than once clever it's very quiet i really like the way she conjures it i mean
41:54today's mountain it was just glorious harmonies in gray that gave us a smoky shimmering distance
42:01i mean i suppose that the morocco painting is about the color of the little tower and the deserted
42:07tennis court so very gentle very quiet but full of atmosphere chris like all our artists in the
42:13shortlist not particularly interested in today's sky judging by chris's submission he i mean he can
42:20paint an atmospheric sky with weather in it so i suspect his decision today was to give us the
42:25height of the mountain which is pretty impressive chris's paint is incredibly english it's about the
42:31english on holiday it's got a fantastic flavor i think both paintings are about solitude i could
42:40really feel that in the sort of forlorn and eerie caravans and then similarly i think today those houses
42:47feel quite lonely in that huge landscape but funny enough both places have multiple dwellings
42:53so although it is about loneliness it's loneliness in a grouping with other loneliness alone in the
43:00crowd yes we need to give chris a hug
43:07dan stephanie and chris you should all be very proud of yourselves for getting through to the shortlist
43:12but only one of you can be today's heat winner and the artist going through to the semi-final is
43:27dan west
43:35a little bit lost words at the minute so there's a lot to take in there's a lot to take
43:39in
43:40it was quite surreal to win really it's definitely a confidence boost to be the winner getting your work
43:45validated by people who work in the industry is huge for me so
43:50that is just a brilliant young artist who's able to produce in graphite pencil and paper on a very
43:57small scale immensely complex drawings which say a lot about drawing itself but also a lot about the
44:05world we live in and how we interact with it and i'm just astonished that he can do it on
44:09such a small
44:10scale with such huge distances created i think it's magical
44:19if you'd like to find out more about taking part in the program or the work of the featured artists
44:24visit our website sky arts artist of the year dot tv
44:31next time it's all aboard the good ship landscape
44:36i don't know how steady my hand is going to be all my stomach to be honest with you
44:41as eight new artists try to fathom the view of london's south bank
44:46it's going to be the biggest on plein air challenge i ever did
44:51so as they fight to keep their heads above water
44:55yeah i'm just really struggling right now who will be swept away
44:59i try not to think what's in that water because you see a few things floating by yeah
45:03i try not to think what's in that water
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