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

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Number 17-Rain, Rain Rain, London Streets




This painting was done in some of the worst conditions and circumstances I was facing at the time I did it last year. Things were going from bad to worse and I struggled to paint this piece for the Chelsea Art Fair last year. I knew I could do a large painting full of figures but I was also a bit timid and didn't know how the whole thing would work out. To...

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Number 13-Evening Light From Battersea Bridge




This painting meant so much to me because before this competition came up I had never set up to paint in the Chelsea area. Sometimes we don't seem to appreciate the area where we live or work and always look out to travel or paint somewhere else. But when Heatherleys and The Cheyne Walk Trustdecided to set up the competition and auction in aid of a...

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Number 11- Summerlight Clapham Common





In Summer of 2009 an advert came out in The Artist magazine for an oil painting to be submitted no larger than 36" x 24" for a winning place in ROI exhibition of that year and for a mini profile in the November Issue of The Artist Magazine. I gave it a go and I really thank God, I won!


Summerlight Clapham Common, Oil on Canvas, 24" x 18", 2009

This painting took...

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Number 8- Evening Light Charing Cross Road






This piece highlights a road, I can almost, if it was possible, walk through it, blind-folded! It has hosts the very popular Leicester Square station, National Portrait Gallery and a number of theatres. The Theatre I captured here with its artificial lights interposing the late evening light in the atmosphere of a busy London Street is Wyndham's Theatre,...

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Number 7-Day Dreaming




I won't write too much about this piece here because the whole story about how I created it from start to finish can be seen on this link HERE.


DAY DREAMING, 13” x 10” Mixed Media(watercolour, coloured pencil, wax crayons, chalk pastel, 2008)

The work was chosen as part of the Patching's Art Competition organised by The Artist's Magazinein 2008 and a nice guy bought it! It...

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