ADEBANJI ALADE: MY ART, MY PASSION FOR SKETCHING — exhibition

Highlights of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters Open painting Evening (Long Overdue)

February 12, 2014 • exhibition • Mall Galleries • Oil painting • ROI

I can't believe I haven't posted anything this year !!!!

This post is long overdue, I just had to finish off a big illustration project, before I could get my head around blogging. Now it's complete, I'm back on track and ready to go in 2014.

This all happened last year, so I can't remember much but I have a lot of pictures that speak louder than anything I can say, hope you enjoy!

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Highlights of The Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhbition (Winsor & Newton Young Artists/Under 35yrs)

December 21, 2013 • exhibition • london • Mall Galleries • oil • Oil painting • ROI • winsor and newton

This is another review of the ROI Annual Exhibition at The Mall Galleries, which is a bit late this year as the exhibition closes today! But for for those of you who couldn't make it and for those of you far far away...this is post highlights few of the paintings in the Under 35 category that got my attention.

They are young painters with so much potential and I know when I say young, some people...

Highlights of The Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition 2013 (Main Category)

December 13, 2013 • acrylic • cityscape • exhibition • figurative • landscape • Mall Galleries • oil • oil on board • oil on canvas • portraits • ROI • still life

The 126th Annual Exhibition was opened by The new President, Ian Cryer who succeeds Peter Wileman, who had been President since 2008. The Opening Speech and awards were given out by the eminent Historian Dr David Starkey.

Dr David Starkey speaks about the history of the ROI and some reasons why the Institute gained it's Royal status.
I am happy to say that those two paintings in the middle of Dr...

Elected as An Associate Member of The Royal Institute of Oil Painters (The Journey)

February 06, 2013 • A and K Wilson Gallery • Adebanji Alade • alla prima • DVD • exhibition • FACE OF HOMELESSNESS • Heatherley School of Fine Art • homeless • oil • oil on board • oil on canvas • ROI • The Artist Magazine • Town House Films

My journey and passion with Oil colour started while I was at Yaba College of Technology between 1992-1997. It was where I discovered this wonderful medium, up till then I had only painted in water based media.

ROI 2007- The painting Rush Hour III won the First Prize in the Winsor & Newton Under 35 Category.

I can't remember the exact year but something tells me it was in 1993! I heard a lot about...

Highlights from the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (Open Painting Evening) 2012

December 18, 2012 • demo • exhibition • figurative • figures • Mall Galleries • model • oil • oil on board • oil on canvas • oil on canvas board • portraits • ROI

Adebanji at work

The Open painting evening at the ROI was interesting again this year, with lots of non-members turning up to paint alongside the members on a very busy evening. I was quite busy this year painting and I wasn't able to get the names of some artists featured, so I just took random pictures during the session and rushed back to more painting. We had three models on the night. The...