NEWS - The People's Choice - The Buxton Spa Art Prize 2021
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Chris Hollis acrylic on canvas £2,300 First Prize - The People's Choice The Buxton Spa Art Prize 2021. |
Currently on exhibition at The Green Man Gallery, the winning artwork will be hung in the Ensana Buxton Crescent Health Spa Hotel. The winning artist, Chris Hollis will receive £500 prize money and a one night stay for two at the Buxton Crescent Hotel & Thermal Spa. The Buxton Spa Art Prize People's Choice 2021 is kindly sponsored by Ensana, Bill & Sheila Barratt, Jean Rodger and Adrian Brown.
The organisers of the Buxton Spa Art Prize would again wish to thank the following people and organisations for their support:
The Trevor Osborne Charitable Trust, The Buxton Spa Company, Ensana Buxton Crescent, Creative Heritage, The Bingham Trust, No 5 Church Street – Buxton Spa, No 6 The Square Tearooms & Accommodation, Adrian Brown & Jean Rodger, Bill & Sheila Barratt, Salman Property Care, Buxton Civic Association, Vision Buxton, Buxton International Festival, Buxton Festival Fringe, Pure Peak, High Peak 360 and Explore Buxton.
The organisers of the Buxton Spa Art Prize would again wish to thank the following people and organisations for their support:
The Trevor Osborne Charitable Trust, The Buxton Spa Company, Ensana Buxton Crescent, Creative Heritage, The Bingham Trust, No 5 Church Street – Buxton Spa, No 6 The Square Tearooms & Accommodation, Adrian Brown & Jean Rodger, Bill & Sheila Barratt, Salman Property Care, Buxton Civic Association, Vision Buxton, Buxton International Festival, Buxton Festival Fringe, Pure Peak, High Peak 360 and Explore Buxton.
The Buxton Spa Prize 2021 Winners Announced - Thursday 24th June
The Buxton Spa Art Prize 2021 Exhibition, featuring work by over 100 artists, was launched at an awards event attended by a small invited audience at the The Green Man Gallery on Thursday 24th June.
The competition, which was successfully launched in 2014, aims to raise the profile of artists and their work and further enhance Buxton’s national reputation as a centre for arts and culture.
The founder of the competition, Trevor Osborne said, ‘It seems like only yesterday that I suggested the first art competition which has over the years become an annual event. The Buxton Spa Art Prize has attracted so many talented and wonderful artists in every one of the seven years it has taken place.’
The exhibition is open daily at the Green Man Gallery from 10.30am till 5.30pm and runs from Friday 25th June to Sunday 25th July. It also offers a great opportunity to view and buy works of art inspired by Buxton.
Judges for the competition included local and nationally renowned artists Haidee-Jo Summers, Simon Roderick and Ingrid Karlsson, Derbyshire Museums & Galleries Manager Ros Westwood MBE and the High Sheriff of Derbyshire Louise Potter.
The Buxton Spa Art Prize 2021 winners sponsored by The Trevor Osborne Charitable Trust, The Buxton Spa Company, Ensana Buxton Crescent are:
1st - Reaching For The Light , Corbar Wood - Matthew Phinn
2nd - The Little Train, Buxton - Eva Juusola
3rd - Together Again - Jenny Aitken
The competition, which was successfully launched in 2014, aims to raise the profile of artists and their work and further enhance Buxton’s national reputation as a centre for arts and culture.
The founder of the competition, Trevor Osborne said, ‘It seems like only yesterday that I suggested the first art competition which has over the years become an annual event. The Buxton Spa Art Prize has attracted so many talented and wonderful artists in every one of the seven years it has taken place.’
The exhibition is open daily at the Green Man Gallery from 10.30am till 5.30pm and runs from Friday 25th June to Sunday 25th July. It also offers a great opportunity to view and buy works of art inspired by Buxton.
Judges for the competition included local and nationally renowned artists Haidee-Jo Summers, Simon Roderick and Ingrid Karlsson, Derbyshire Museums & Galleries Manager Ros Westwood MBE and the High Sheriff of Derbyshire Louise Potter.
The Buxton Spa Art Prize 2021 winners sponsored by The Trevor Osborne Charitable Trust, The Buxton Spa Company, Ensana Buxton Crescent are:
1st - Reaching For The Light , Corbar Wood - Matthew Phinn
2nd - The Little Train, Buxton - Eva Juusola
3rd - Together Again - Jenny Aitken
Highly Commended:
Picture Post - Pam Smart
The Crescent, Buxton Spa - Nick Grove
From the top of Hall Bank, Buxton - Susan Issac
Picture Post - Pam Smart
The Crescent, Buxton Spa - Nick Grove
From the top of Hall Bank, Buxton - Susan Issac
The Buxton Spa Teen Art Prize 2021 winners, sponsored by Bill & Sheila Barratt, Jean Rodger and Adrian Brown are:
1st - Where’s the Rain? - Hannah Dunkin - aged 13
2nd - Bar Brasserie - Grace Riordan - aged 13
3rd - It was forecast as sunny - Camilla Clay - aged 13
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The Buxton Spa Children’s Prize 2021 winners, sponsored by No.6 The Square Tearooms are :
1st - The Bluebell Forest in Corbar Woods - Prudie Dawson - aged 10
2nd - My Favourite Climbing Tree - Hector Dawson - aged 3
3rd - A Family Walk - Verity Dawson - aged 8
1st - The Bluebell Forest in Corbar Woods - Prudie Dawson - aged 10
2nd - My Favourite Climbing Tree - Hector Dawson - aged 3
3rd - A Family Walk - Verity Dawson - aged 8
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Winners of the The Buxton Spa Teen & Children’s Prize received art materials, cash prizes and vouchers for Poole's Cavern & Country Park, kindly sponsored by Buxton Civic Association.
The five Buxton International Festival Choice paintings chosen by the Festival team include:
- Picture Post - Pam Smart
- Cross Culture Pollinisation - Amanda Cirillo
- Crescent Illumination - Mark Langley
- The Little Train – Buxton - Eva Juusola
- Spring Time on Broad Walk - Sam Bailey
