About Stephen Whatcott
Links
There are no upcoming events
Show previous events Hide previous events
Previous events
Event: Pastel Society Annual Exhibition 2016
Dates: 23 Feb 2016 - 5 Mar 2016
The Pastel Society seeks the best in contemporary dry media, combining traditional skills with creative originality. It is a registered charity, founded in 1898, widely recognised for its success in promoting and encouraging the use of pastel within the contemporary art world. Its historical membership includes Walter Crane and Dame Laura Knight. Today the Society is well known for spanning figurative, abstract and experimental work in all types of dry media.
Featuring works created in pastels, pencils, chalk and charcoal, The Pastel Society exhibits abstract and experimental works alongside traditional representation. The artists, including elected members of the Society and those chosen from open submission, all share a passion for working in dry media.
Member artists will be demonstrating their working processes as part of the exhibition and workshops in various aspects of working with pastels will also be available.
Event: Secret Art Prize: The Winners
Dates: 1 Oct 2015 - 18 Oct 2015
The Secret Art Prize is an artist’s competition with a difference. Applicants entered with only a first name, short statement and an image, presenting only their talent not their reputation to the judging panel, making the winner a raw talent to be watched. The 2015 judges were Director of Moniker Projects Frankie Shea, artist and blogger Hannah Adamaszek, Founder of ArtPie Pierrick Senelaer, Founder of Inspiring City Stuart Holdsworth and Senior Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Kent Grant Pooke, a group so varied that combined all aspects of the art world. Not one to leave out anyone, the Secret Art prize asks for everyone’s opinion in the People’s Choice Award which clocked up 10,438 votes overall from the art loving public- an impressive feat for a prize only in its second year.
Exhibiting artists:
Alicia Gradon
Craig Keenan
Detlef Aderhold
Gary Scott
Hanping Feng
Mark Michael
Michael Vincent Manalo
Mister Mistry
Stephen Whatcott
Event: Pastel Society Annual Exhibition 2015
Dates: 24 Feb 2015 - 7 Mar 2015
I'm pleased to announce that I have had my pastel drawing A Roar and Then Silence accepted into the Pastel Society's annual exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London. The piece was selected from over 600 entries to appear alongside paintings by some of Britain’s leading pastel artists. The Pastel Society UK’s annual exhibition will be on display at Mall Galleries near Trafalgar Square between 24 February and 7 March 2015
The Pastel Society hold an open submission exhibition in central London each year. Founded in 1898, with historical membership including Walter Crane and Dame Laura Knight. Today the Society is well known for spanning figurative, abstract and experimental work in all types of dry media.
Biography
The bold and striking structural forms present in Stephen Whatcott’s abstract paintings demonstrate instinctive, expressive mark making while still retaining a balanced composition.
The emotional impact of the image is always the primary focus of these paintings. Ranging from great, colossal walls of paint to more free-flowing expressive forms, they are built up in many textured layers with each layer referring to the marks made previously throughout the entire process. Composed largely instinctively, the paintings are physical, both in technique and presence, but ultimately attempt to communicate on an emotional level.
It is in the fundamental components of vitality, drive and feeling, the things that epitomise being alive, that are being conveyed in these pictures.
