Patron's Award

PATRON'S AWARD - SPONSORED BY OUR PATRON, LORD FARINGDON

The Patron's Award is presented at the Annual Exhibition to a member artist for a work which is exhibited and which receives the highest number of votes from members and the visiting public.

Our congratulations go to the winners.

Our winner of the Patron's Award 2021:

Arthur Simmons

The winner of the Patron's Award for 2021 was Exhibit 187, "Autumn Sunlight", painted in Oil by Arthur Simmons.

Unfortunately, Arthur could not be there to receive his award from Lord Charles Faringdon at the Preview Evening so the trophy was presented to him at the October Monthly Meeting on Tuesday 12th October in the Pavilion. Arthur sold three out of the four pictures which he exhibited during the Preview Evening - quite an achievement!

Patron's Award 2020, "Blue Bird", Kelsey Brown

Our winner of the Patron's Award 2020:

Kelsey Brown

The winner of this year’s Patron’s Award by a large majority was Kelsey Brown with exhibit number 170, a watercolour entitled “Blue Bird”.

Kelsey will be the custodian of our much-coveted trophy for one year and will be presented with her trophy as soon as circumstances allow.

Congratulations Kelsey!

Our winner of the Patron's Award 2019: Diana Joyce
Painting entitled: "Sea Drift" in oil. The painting was the first to sell on the Friday Preview Evening only a few minutes after the exhibition opened, and before people had even started to vote for the Patron's Award. Diana's seascape was inspired by a poem by Walt Whitman called ‘Sea Drift’.