The Sequested Prize | Art Competition

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Figurative artist. President, Royal Institute of Oil Painters. Member, Royal Society of Portrait Painters. Member, New English Art Club.

"Lockdown selfie"
41cm x 31cm
Not for sale

Wayne was born in Bradford and studied at Bradford College and Wimbledon School of Art respectively. He has had work exhibited in a number of illustrious shows including the John Moores Painting Prize, BP Portrait Award and The Royal Society of Portrait Painters annual event. His work has also appeared in 500 Portraits 25 Years of the BP Portrait Award.

"There are some things about myself I can't explain to anyone"
Oil on gesso board.
45cm x 35.5cm
£2500

I describe my practice as visual story telling. My work predominantly revolves around race, identity, ancestry and transcultural experiences in the Western world. By focusing on individuals’ unique personal stories, my portraits aim to break away from oversimplified and prejudicial stereotypes that exist around “black identity”.

“Generational Memories"
Oil and image transfers on board.
35cm x 45cm
£1000

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Born 1970 Nottingham. Lives and works in London and Copenhagen. Studied at University of Northumbria at Newcastle 1989-1993, Royal College of Art 2004-2006.
Member of The Royal Society of Portrait Painters & Contemporary British Portrait Painters. Winner BP Portrait award 1996, Winner The Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture 2018, Winner The RP Award 2019.

"Self Portrait"
Oil on gesso board.
50.8 cm x 35.6 cm
£4000

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Geoffrey Harrison

Originally from Manchester, Geoffrey now lives and works in London. He is primarily a portraitist and is a member of the Contemporary British Portrait Painters. He’s been shortlisted for the BP portrait award, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ Bulldog Bursary and has work selected for the Royal Society of Portrait Painters annual exhibition.

"Double self portrait"
Oil on panel.
60cm x 50cm
£2400

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Henry Hudson (1982) is a British artist who works across painting, sculpture, ceramics, installation and printing-making. Hudson’s critical practice is expressed through the exploration of various techniques and materials, including ceramics, plasticine, scagliola, oil painting, 3D printing, wax, sand and textiles. The work extends into the digital realm using the iPad, scanners and uv printers that inform his contemporary portraiture.

"Covid self Portrait"
Plaster, pigment, glue, water, petroleum jelly, chalk, calcium, salt, uv flatbed printer.
70 x 50 cm.
£8000

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Born in 1994, Owain Hunt is an emerging British painter. His paintings contemplate the transience of memory and life. Working observationally, his paintings emerge from a shared, fleeting existence with his sitters. These experiences, processed through paint and contorted by fragile memories, evoke reflective, often melancholic images.

"Portrait of a Young Man", 2020
Oil on linen.
60cm x 80cm
Sold

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Megan Hunter is a portrait painter who paints at her home studio in Leicester. Her realistic style not only captures a likeness but also the personality of her sitter. Megan builds up layers of oils on aluminium allowing the under colours to show through, giving her work a contemporary feel.

"Lockdown studio self portrait"
Oil on aluminium.
52cm x 67cm
£5000

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American-born, Dublin-based artist Vanessa Jones is a figurative painter whose work deals with themes around the feminine, primordial impulses and medieval associations with beauty, primarily through the filter of self-portraiture. She recently graduated with an MFA from NCAD and was awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award in 2019 and 2021.

August Lamm is an artist and writer from the New York area. She primarily works in a pen and ink style inspired by historical printmaking techniques.

“Self-Portrait in Strasbourg”
Ink on paper.
20.32cm x 25.4cm
£1000

Pinkie Maclure is a self-taught artist working primarily in stained
glass. She reflects the beauty and madness of modern life, in poignant
vignettes of painted, layered and engraved glass, which are backlit to make intimate, glowing panels. Her work has recently been purchased by the National Museum of
Scotland.

"Totally Wired (Self-Portrait with Insomnia Posy)"
Stained glass light box.
63cm x 52cm
£5000

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Toby Michael is a figurative artist from Buckinghamshire. After graduating from Winchester School of Art in 2018, he studied further at the Barcelona Academy and completed a residency at Stowe House in 2021. His work consists of single and multi-figure compositions that are quiet and self-reflective.

"Nude, Greensleeves and Us"
Oil on canvas.
60cm x 80cm
£2000

Tanya Raabe-Webber is an acclaimed contemporary
visual artist often painting in live high profile spaces. A
painter of people, environments and cats. Her work explores identity, the human condition and it’s
relationship with these themes through a fusion of
traditional and digital painted environments.

"ReDressed"
Medium acrylic on wooden panel.
15.2cm x 20.3cm
£750

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Born in Devon, 1995, Wills studied at Wimbledon College of Arts (2014/17) and Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig (2016). He has exhibited across the UK, Germany and Spain, including the John Moores Painting Prize 2021, at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.

"Self Portrait", 2020
Oil on panel.
26cm x 35cm
£1500

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Lisa Wright is a British artist known for her often large scale figurative paintings and more recently life size sculptures. She has won many prestigious awards and prizes over her 30 year career. Her most recent public space project ‘Future Forest’ celebrated the 2019 Centenary of the Forestry Commission, England.

"Telling Secrets to the Ground"
Oil on canvas.
50cm x 40cm
£6700

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