UKCPS Annual Exhibition 2009 - Highly Commended

Today, UKCPS News features those artists whose work was awarded a Highly Commended Certificate in UKCPS's 8th Annual Open International Exhibition 2008. They are listed in alphabetical order below.

Each artist will receive a pack of Stonehenge paper (sponsored by Legion Paper) and Fisher 400 paper (sponsored by Tim Fisher)

Links are to UKCPS members' galleries on the UKCPS website (where applicable).

Please remember that the copyright to each image belongs to the artist and they should not be downloaded without written permission.

(left) Juvenile by Karen Coulson UKCPS (26 x 20cm coloured pencils)
(right) Reflected 1 by Malcolm Cudmore (60 x 90cm coloured pencils)


(left) Nature's Own Athletes by Margaret Edwards UKCPS (37 x 50cm coloured pencils)
(right) Sun Trapped Under Water by Irina Garmashova (54 x 38cm coloured pencils)

(right) Under a Pear Tree by Suzy Herbert UKCPS (46 x 28cm coloured pencils)
(left) Master of Thurstaston by Ann Holden (26 x 31cm coloured pencils)

(right) Red-ruffed Lemur by Bev Lewis UKCPS (40 x 30cm coloured pencils)
(right) Best Friends by Roger Lewis UKCPS PSGFA (40 x 55cm coloured pencils)


(left) Not all is Black and White by Pauline Longley (37 x 26cm coloured pencils)
(left) My Neighbour Pepe by Ursula Williams (40.5 x 29.5cm coloured pencils)

Demonstrations

UKCPS members demonstrating coloured pencils at the exhibition include:

• (today) 22nd September - Peter Weatherill UKCPS
  
• 25th and 26th September - Rachel Stirling
• 2nd October - Rachel Stirling and Pauline Longley

More about UKCPS members and the exhibition

Tomorrow, the blog will be featuring those UKCPS members who, having work included in this year's exhibition, have achieved signature status with UKCPS or a change in their signature status.

Links:

• UKCPS - 8th Annual Open International Exhibition 2009
• UKCPS Annual exhibition 2009 - Award Winners
• Artists selected for the 8th Annual UKCPS International Open Exhibition

UKCPS Annual exhibition 2009 - Award Winners

The artists and works winning Awards were formally announced at the Private View for UKCPS's 8th Annual Open International Exhibition 2009 in Birmingham yesterday. You can find images and details of the work below.

Please remember that the copyright to each image belongs to the artist and they should not be downloaded without written permission.

Special mention must be made of Kate Clarke and Janie Pirie who respectively won the Best in Show and Reserve Best in Show. They each also won a second Award.

Links are to members galleries on the UKCPS website or their own websites.

Derwent Award for Best in Show (£400)
UKCPS Annual Open International Exhibition 2009
Old -Timers, One, Two, Free! by Kate Clarke
3x(39x26) cm, coloured pencils (£845)

UKCPS Award for Reserve Best in Show (£300.00)
Beetroot 'Bolthardy' by Janie Pirie
64 x 48cm, coloured pencils (£930)

The Presidents Award (£100)

Scarlet Macaws by Jonathan Newey UKCPS
42 x 85cm, coloured pencils (£1,300)

The Peter Weatherill Award for Best Landscape (£100)
Wistman's Wood Revisited (£2,000) by John Hurford
51 x 63cm, coloured pencils

The Staedtler Award
Challenging Stereotypes - the model family by Kate Clarke
60x 28cm, coloured pencils, (NFS)

The Faber-Castell Award (Wooden box of 120 Polychromos)
Dew on blue Poppies by Janie Pirie
55 x 39cm, coloured pencils (£860)

The Lyra Award (wooden box of rembrandt Professional pencils)
Driver of the Great Marquess by Neil Houghton
30.5 x 46cm, coloured pencils (£1,196)

The Jakar/Caran d'Ache Award (tin of 38 Luminance pencils)
Cherries by Peter Woof UKCPS
15 x 38cm, coloured pencils (£900)

The Great Art Award (cheque or art supplies)
The Full Monty by Suzy Herbert UKCPS
20 x 24cm, coloured pencils (£235)

Peoples Vote: This will be awarded after the exhibition closes on 3rd October. This award is based on the number of votes each work receives from people visiting the exhibition.

Sponsors and judges

UKCPS very much appreciates the support it has received from:

• Derwent, the Comberland Pencil Company who have sponsored both this year's Annual Exhibition and the Best in Show Award. Derwent is the brand name of the Cumberland Pencil Company. They have been making pencils since 1832 and manufacture Derwent Artists, Coloursoft and other coloured pencils.
• this year's jurors who selected the works to be exhibited in the show - Vera Curnow CPSA (Founder of the Colored Pencil Society of America, author, editor and gallery owner), Paul Hipkiss RBSA Curator of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and Emma Cross, Marketing and Sales Co-ordinator, the Cumberland Pencil Company (Derwent) the sponsors for this year's exhibition

All the Award winners were selected by Paul Hipkiss the Curator of the RBSA, apart from the President's Award and the Peter Weatherill Landscape award which were both judged by the UKCPS President Ann Massey.

Exhibition details

You can visit the exhibition at Gallery Two at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, 4 Brook Street, Birmingham B3 1SA. The exhibition is open from today, Monday 21st September and closes on Saturday 3rd October. The gallery is open 10.30am to 5.30pm (Monday to Friday) and 10.30am to 5.00pm on Saturdays and 1.00pm to 5.00pm on Sundays. Admission is free.

For further details see this post UKCPS - 8th Annual Open International Exhibition 2009. Details of the location, parking and how to get there are available in this post.

Works for sale

All works are for sale unless otherwise indicated. Shipping and associated insurance costs are not included in the purchase price and are the responsibility of the purchaser.

All sales of work in the exhibition are managed by the RBSA Gallery. All enquiries about purchasing without visiting the Gallery must be directed to the RBSA Gallery. If you have any other enquiries please contact Pat Heffer, the Exhibition Director (right click to open the email address in your email application).

Demonstrations

UKCPS members demonstrating coloured pencils at the exhibition include:

• 22nd September - Peter Weatherill UKCPS
  
• 25th and 26th September - Rachel Stirling
• 2nd October - Rachel Stirling and Pauline Longley
  

...and there's more to follow

This week I'm highlighting different groups of people in the entries over the next few days:

• Tuesday: Highly Commended entries to the exhibition
  
• Wednesday: UKCPS Members awarded signature status as a result of their acceptance into this year's exhibition
• Thursday: Thanks to all the people who helped to create this exhibition.

You can also see the List of Works and Artists selected for the exhibition in Artists selected for the 8th Annual UKCPS International Open Exhibition

On Saturday 26th September, the UKCPS website will have a new page displaying all the works in the exhibition. I'll provide a link in this post once the new page has been published.

UKCPS Annual General Meeting - 3rd October 2009

The UKCPS Annual General Meeting is on Saturday 3rd October 2009 and will follow the Annual Society Lunch.

Annual Society Lunch

The Annual Society Lunch takes place at Pasta di Piazza, 11 Brook Street, St Paul's Square, Birmingham B3 1SA on Saturday 3rd October at 12.15pm. Contact Pat Heffer if you wish to join the annual lunch as all seats need to be booked in advance.

Annual General Meeting

The UKCPS AGM will take place in Birmingham at St Paul's Church, (St Paul's Square, Birmingham B3 1SA) from 2pm until 4pm, after which the exhibition at the RBSA Gallery (4 Brook St Birmingham, West Midlands, B3 1SA) will be taken down.

UKCPS AGM - 3rd October 2009 - Agenda-

The AGM will start at 2.00pm. The agenda is as follows.

1. Apologies for absence
2. Minutes of last meeting
3. President’s report
4. Chairman’s report
5. Financial statement
6. Membership report
7. Exhibition report
8. Sponsorship report
9. Constitution
10. Report about Yahoo group and future
11. New members of Exec
12. Any other business

If you'd like any more details about the Annual General Meeting please contact Carol Bramley, UKCPS Secretary and Postmistress

Locations & directions - car/ rail/ walk

The RBSA website includes a "locate us" page. This provides details of where the gallery is (see RBSA locate map on right). and instructions for those coming by road or rail.

This is a link to a Google Map which indicates the locations of the RBSA Gallery, the restaurant, church and Birmingham New Street station.

You can use Street View to see what the area looks like. You can also use 'Get Directions' to find a suggested route - walking or by car - to St Paul's Square from a location of your choice.

Rail/Walking: Directions are provided on the RBSA Locate us page. The location of Birmingham New Street station is indicated on the Google Map.

Parking: The St Pauls Square area is an area of controlled parking with parking restrictions applying every day between 8am and 5pm. There are some 'pay at the machine' spaces. Local car parks are indicated on the map. Further details are available on the RBSA Locate us page

UKCPS - 8th Annual Open International Exhibition 2009

UKCPS members are invited to a Private View of the 8th Annual Open International Exhibition 2009 on Sunday 20th September.

The preview is between 3.00 and 5.00pm at the gallery of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, 4 Brook Street, Birmingham B3 1SA

The exhibition opens Monday 21st September and closes on Saturday 3rd October. The gallery is open 10.30am to 5.30pm (Monday to Friday) and 10.30am to 5.00pm on Saturdays and 1.00pm to 5.00pm on Sundays. Admission is free.

The exhibition will also go online on the UKCPS website on Saturday 26th September.

Delivery of pictures to the exhibition

Members whose work has been selected for exhibition and who have still to deliver their work are reminded that all pictures for hanging in the exhibition need to be:

• EITHER: delivered to the RBSA Gallery, 4 Brook Street, Birmingham B3 1SA by 9am on Sunday 20th September. Pictures cannot be accepted in advance.
  
• OR: delivered to Rachel Stirling who lives in the Birmingham area AFTER 2pm on Saturday 19th September (see exhibition delivery note with letter of notification of selection for Rachel's home address)
• OR: delivered to alternative pick up points (contact Pat Heffer, Exhibition Secretary for details)

All work must be conveniently packed in reusable packing with no hanging fixtures on the back. Please ensure that your work is clearly marked on the back with your name, address and price. The gallery reserves the right to reject any work which is not of the standard shown in the entry submission or which is unsuitably framed.

Any queries please contact Pat Heffer

Next week on this blog:

• Monday 21st September - Award Winners
• Tuesday 22nd September - Highly commended works
• Wednesday 23rd September - new signature members
  

Call for demonstrators

Would you like to get involved in a practical way with promoting coloured pencil art? We currently have a couple of opportunities for a number of UKCPS members to provide demonstrations of coloured pencil art this Autumn.

8th Annual Open International Exhibition 2009

We have been allowed to provide demonstrators during the International exhibition at the home of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. This is an important move for the UKCPS into the Fine Art Community and we need to show what "coloured pencil art" is all about.

The Exhibition is running for two weeks at the RBSA's home at 4 Brook Street, Birmingham B3 1SA (see location map which also provides details of car parking and proximity to the railyway station). The dates of the exhibition are as previously advertised Sept 21st - Oct 3rd and the exhibition is open every day.

We are looking for all types of pencil artist to take up this opportunity to demonstrate in this prestigious gallery. A table and chair will be available for demonstrators.

NEC Art Materials Live

Suzy Herbert UKCPS
demonstrating how she works
at a previous Art Materials Live event

We are also starting to book the demonstrators for the NEC Art Materials Live Event at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC). This is held over 4 days between 5th and 8th November 2009.

This is a huge event for the society and we are looking for help on the two UKCPS stands from UKCPS members who can act as:

• demonstrators,
  
• workshop tutors / aides
  
• and/or people to deal with enquiries and sales
  

If you are available to give a day or half a day to the society please consider joining us at the NEC Birmingham.

These are links to the blog posts about last year's event which give you an idea about what it is like:

• UKCPS at 'Art Materials Live' next week
• Who's going to be at Art Materials Live?
• News from Art Materials Live #1
• Reflections on Art Materials Live 2008

plus this page provides details of how you can travel to the NEC

Who to contact

If you have any queries or would like to register an interest please contact UKCPS Events Manager Rachel Stirling (You can find her email address below - inserted as a picture to avoid it being spammed!).

Artists selected for the 8th Annual UKCPS International Open Exhibition

This week coloured pencil artists in different countries have been receiving emails and letters telling them the outcome of the submission of their work to this year's exhibition by UKCPS of 100% coloured pencil artwork by coloured pencil artists. Both members and non-members were eligible to submit work

Artwork by Vera Curnow CPSA
Founder of CPSA and juror for the
8th Annual UKCPS International Open Exhibition
copyright the artist

Everybody should have heard by now and consequently this blog can now publish the list of artists whose work has been accepted into the exhibition for the very first time.

If an artist has got more than one piece into the exhibition this is indicated by the number in brackets after their name in the list below. For example (3) = 3 artworks accepted. Full members could submit up to four works.

List of artists with work accepted into the 8th International Open Annual Exhibition of the United Kingdom Coloured Pencil Society

• Jose Arcas
• Elisabeth Aubury UKCPS (2)
• Josephine Barnes
• Alexandra Bastien UKCPS
• Joan Batty
• Robin Borrett UKCPS (3)
• Carol Bramley UKCPS
• Linda Brand
• Tiffany Budd UKCPS (3)
• Jean Canter UKCPS (3)
• Angela Cater UKCPS
• Irina Garmashova (3)
• Kate Clarke (3)
• Sue Clinker (3)
• Karen Coulson UKCPS (2)
• Malcolm Cudmore (3)
• Lene Daugaard
• Jude Delaney
• Julie Douglas (4)
• Margaret Edwards UKCPS
• Lesley Galton UKCPS (2)
• Jo Goudie UKCPS (2)
• Angela Hammond (2)
• Pat Heffer UKCPS (2)
• Judith Heilbronn-Crown UKCPS (3)
• Shirley Henderson UKCPS (2)
• Suzy Herbert UKCPS (3)
• Ann Holden
• Catherine Holtom (2)
• Neil Houghton (3)
• John Hurford
• Carole Keen UKCPS
• Shirley Leslie UKPCS
• Bev Lewis UKCPS (2)
• Roger Lewis UKCPS (2)
• Patsy Lindamood UKCPS (4)
• Pauline Longley (3)
• Ann James Massey UKCPS
• Claire Milligan
• Jonathan Newey UKCPS
• Janet Pantry (2)
• Rachel Pesterfield
• Janie Pirie (4)
• Anthony Rankin
• JS Revill (2)
• Dave Richards UKCPS (4)
• Ann Roberts (2)
• Lesley Sharman
• Katherine Tyrrell UKCPS (2)
• Ursula Williams
• Peter Woof UKCPS (3)

For some full members, acceptance of work into this exhibitions means signature status has been earned. Hence the names of those members are now listed with their signature member initials! There will be a special post on this blog about signature members after the exhibition opens.

The jurors this year were Vera Curnow CPSA (Founder of the Colored Pencil Society of America, author, editor and gallery owner), Paul Hipkiss RBSA of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and Emma Cross from Derwent, the sponsors for this year's exhibition.

The artwork at the top of this post is by Vera Curnow.

Exhibition details

The 8th Annual Open International Exhibition 2009 is being held at the home of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists at 4 Brook Street, Birmingham B3 1SA (see location map which also provides details of car parking and proximity to the railyway station).

The exhibition runs from Monday 21st September to Saturday 3rd October and the exhibition is open every day (Monday to Friday 10:30 to 5:30pm Saturday 10:30am to 5:00pm and Sunday 1:00pm to 5:00pm).

Links to previous posts about this exhibition:

• UKCPS Annual Exhibition - the entry results!
• FINAL REMINDER: 24th June - deadline for UKCPS exhibition entries
• 10 days left to submit your UKCPS Annual Exhibition entry
• The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists - and coloured pencils
• 8th UKCPS Open International Exhibition - Call for Entries

Julie Douglas wins CPSA award

Jeff George has won the Best in Show at the CPSA 17th International exhibition for the second time - and two years running! His work Life and Death is in an unusual panoramic format ( 8.5” x 32”) but that's not its only surprise which I won't spoil by revealing on this blog. I'll just suggest you look very carefully as it's very difficult to see in the size posted on the exhibition gallery site. You'll get a better view of it on his website.

Interestingly I happen to know that this work got rejected last year - but only because only one work from each member can be successful in going forward to the final exhibition. Which means in 2007 he entered two works both of which have been judged best in show in successive years.

Click this link to see all the works which won awards at the exhibition

Top award for UKCPS member

UKCPS Member Julie Douglas won $1,000 and one of the top awards - the Staedtler Award for Exceptional Merit - for Boy on a Swing.

Boy on a Swing
Julie Douglas (Ireland)
coloured pencils 15.7 x 10.2"
copyright the artist

You can see a bigger version of her work on her website - click the image to see the big version.

Julie studied graphic design and illustration and worked for 12 years as a successful illustrator working with top advertising agencies and design groups. She has also illustrated books for publishers such as Penguin, MacMillan, Mitchell Beazley etc. She now teaches art in Ireland.

Prior to this award she has also won the Association of Illustrators Award on two occasions and her work on an American Express brochure won a New York Advertising award.

You can read more about Julie on her UKCPS gallery page - but I'll be asking her to reveal more in an interview for this blog in the near future.