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Prizes and Exhibitions
Certificate of Commendation for ‘an exceptional work selected for the Royal Institute of Oil Painters’ annual exhibition 2024
Second Prize Winner!
Delighted to have been awarded Second Prize at The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Portrait Prize 2024 for my painting ‘Motherly Loves’.
South East Open Studios
I will be opening up my studio with 9 other artists 14-30th June.
For more info www.seos-art.org/
Society of Women Artists
Delighted to have two paintings selected for the 163rd Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries. 25-29th June 2024
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London
8-12 May 2024
Showing with Nicholas Bowlby
RBSA Portrait Prize Exhibition
Delighted to have my painting ‘Motherly Loves’ selected for the RBSA Portrait Prize Exhibition which opens on Tuesday 7 May with the Private View from 6.00 - 8.00pm 2024.
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London
6-10 March 2024
Showing with Nicholas Bowlby Stand A4
Royal Society of Portrait Painters
Delighted to have two paintings shortlisted for the Royal Society of Portrait Painters 2024 :-)
I’d love to invite you to our exclusive ‘Meet the Artist’ exhibition ‘People Observed’ at Kata Jewellery & Arts Gallery, Tunbridge Wells. I am showing original paintings and giclée prints alongside the amazing photographer, Frederique Bellec and the beautiful hand made jewellery of Kata. Please click HERE to reserve your place: Saturday 10th February - 2 to 4pm. If you can’t make it, the exhibition runs until the 30th April :-)
I look forward to seeing you there,
Frances Featherstone x
Royal Institute of Oil Painters
29th November to 16th December
Mall Galleries
ING Discerning Eye
16-26th November 2023
Mall Galleries
Green and Stone Summer Exhibition
1-29th August 2023
Delighted to have my painting selected out of over 2k entries for the summer exhibition at The Gallery at Green and Stone
Wells Art Contemporary
Thrilled my painting ‘Breakfast of Champions’ with 135 other artworks has been selected out of over 3k entries to be exhibited at Wells Cathedral. 4 August until 1st September 2023.
South East Open Studios
Delighted to open up my studio in Groombridge, East Sussex with 10 other artists in June.
Open Thursday to Sundays 3-18th June 11am -5pm.
Would love for you to come and visit.
Information: https://www.seos-art.org/
Affordable Art Fair Hampstead 2023
11-14 May Showing with Nicholas Bowlby
Bath Society Open
‘On the Flip Side’ selected to be exhibited at 22nd April -24th June at the Victoria Art Gallery, bath.
The Society of Women Artists June 2023
Two paintings selected to exhibit at the Mall Galleries 6-10th June.
Jackson’s Painting Prize
Longlisted out of 11,225 entries for Jacksons’s 2023 Painting Prize!
New English Art Club 2023
Two paintings pre-selected for New English Art Club at the Mall Galleries
Royal Society of Portraiture 2023
Mall Galleries, London
Shortlisted
Women United Art Prize
Shortlisted for the ‘Women United Art Prize’ 2022 under the drawing and painting category
ING DISCERNING EYE
Delighted ‘#$@!%’ has been selected from over 7.5K entries for the exhibition at the Mall Galleries. Private View 10th November. Exhibition runs from 11-20th November 2022. To see the painting visit the interiors section of my website.
Art Wave
I am exhibiting two landscapes at
www.celebratecuckmerehaven.co.uk
This exhibition is in support of Cuckmere Haven SOS who are campaigning to preserve this incredible landscape and its heritage.
Art Escape
Exhibiting 6 Figurative Paintings in a group show from July to September 2022 in Tonbridge
Royal Society of Portrait Painters
Pre-selected for ‘Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ annual exhibition 2022 at The Mall Galleries.
The Pastel Society
Pre-selected for ‘The Pastel Society’ annual exhibition 2022 at The Mall Galleries.
Winner of the ING Discerning Eye Chair’s Purchase Prize 2021!!!
The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition
‘The 2021 ING Discerning Eye received close to 7,500 entries from artists around the UK. The quantity and quality of submissions was outstanding, and yours caught the eye of our selectors to be exhibited at the Mall Galleries in November. Congratulations on this incredible achievement!’
11th to 21st November
The Society of Women Artists
Delighted to have my painting ‘Still Life’ selected for the 160th Open Exhibition running from 21st September to 31st December 2021.
Wells Art Contemporary 2021
Delighted to have my painting ‘A Long Taxi to the Runway’ selected for this exhibition. From over 3,500 submissions, 91 artworks have been chosen. https://www.wellsartcontemporary.co.uk/2021-wac-awards
The exhibition at Wells Cathedral will open on the 28th August 2021, coinciding with the installation of a new Antony Gormley work that will be exhibited on the West Front of the Cathedral.
Wells Art Contemporary (WAC) Awards is an international open competition for contemporary visual arts which has established a strong presence in the London art world and which is drawing artists from places as diverse as Australia, Azerbaijan, India, Italy, Korea, Japan and the United States. Open to artists working in painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography, installation or video. The WAC Awards aims to stimulate debate, challenge and provoke, pushing the boundaries of the visual arts scene both nationally and internationally.
D C Contemporary
Delighted to have 2 painting ‘Icarus’ and ‘Missed Departures’ selected to
https://dcontemporary.com/event/threshold-open-call-2021/
23 Grafton St, London W1S 4EY
Private view Wednesday 28th July
6th July - 22nd July
Figurative Art Now 2021
Delighted to have 2 paintings ‘Dower House’ and ‘Grounded’ selected for this exhibition celebrating 60 years of the FBA
Mall Galleries / Federation of British Artists
Online 7 July to 20 September www.mallgalleries.org.uk
South East Open Studios
I’ll be opening my studio up from the 4th - 20th June 2021
I’d love you to visit :-)
Ruth Borchard
Delighted to be longlisted for the Ruth Borchard 2021 Self Portrait Prize with my painting ‘Creature Comforts’. You can see my painting amongst the other selected works here:
Art Gemini Prize 2017
Delighted that 'Perpetual Motion' has been selected with 36 other artists to be shown in the Finalist Exhibition at Asia House 12-22nd September 2017.
https://www.artgeminiprize.com/shortlisted-artists-2017/
Derbyshire Open Art Competition 2017
'Rainbow Ices at Upper Padley' has been selected for the Derbyshire Open Competition. It will be on display from 23rd June until 1st September at Buxton Museum and Art Gallery
Royal Society of Portraiture 2017
Pre-Selected for 'The Royal Society of Portraiture' Exhibition at The Mall Galleries.