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

Highlights of Royal Institute Of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition (Under 35 Category)-2010

exhibition Mall Galleries oil ROI winsor and newton

This year the Royal Institute of Oil Painters had it's 123rd Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries. The exhibition was opened by the President, Peter Wileman PROI and Comm. Antonio Carluccio OBE. The gallery was packed and the works on display were fantastic!

In this post I just want to highlight a few of the painters from the Under 35 category that got my eye and I must say, ALL the works in...

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MY BATH MARATHON EXHIBITION OPENS (212 plein air paintings of Bath)

alla prima Bath Experience Bath Marathon exhibition landscape painting me oil on board oil on gessoed card plein air


The Gallery Front

This is it! I give glory to God, when my Pastor started this year he preached a sermon on the 1st of January -titled, "THIS IS IT!" He said this year will be a "THIS IS IT, YEAR FOR US". I didn't and couldn't fully understand this but when I got to Bath and saw the gallery front with the 212 paintings, I just said, "THIS IS IT"!!!


Adebanji signing the Circus Panorama

It hasn't...

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Meeting the INSPIRATIONAL PETER BROWN

exhibition landscape painting me oil on board Peter Brown plein air



Adebanji and Peter Brown at Messum's


There's never an end to learning and sometimes artists keep looking for inspiration everywhere. I find myself pouring through art books, artist monographs, art history books and books in libraries, walking through galleries for endless hours, researching on the internet and walking everywhere with my eyes WIDE open to everything and anything around me. This has...

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Some artists that caught my attention at the Bath Prize 2010

Bath Experience exhibition review The Bath Prize




Judges (Artists) with Winning piece.



The Bath Prize is running for the second year and it was great to see an exhibition that featured wonderful works of art to celebrate Bath, a world heritage City. This year I didn't take part but I was part of the judging panel which consisted of Bath gallery owner and artist Nick Cudworth, who was the chair, The Bath Chronicle Editor, Sam Holliday, The...

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Evening Light, Charing Cross Road wins Agnes Reeve Memorial Award at the Chelsea Art Society Centenary Exhibition

Awards exhibition london me mixed media. watercolour

The Chelsea Art Society , Centenary Exhibition came to end over the weekend and I would just like to highlight that My piece, "Evening Light, Charing Cross Road" Won the Agnes Reeve Memorial Award for a Painting of London.



Evening Light, Charing Cross Road, Watercolour with hints of mixed media, 2009

This piece highlights a road I can almost, if it was possible, walk through it, blind-folded! It has...

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