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Welcome to localartist.org.uk. The purpose of this site is to enable artists of all levels to showcase their work in an environment that encourages them to contribute good quality material that otherwise would remain beyond view in private collections, often never seeing the light of day. We are based in the United Kingdom, and although the central focus of the material is UK-based, we will be welcoming submissions from all over the world.
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This year The Bath Prize, a novel painting competition first held in 2009, offers a total prize fund of £12,000. This includes a first prize of £5,000 and a plein-air award of £2,000. There are many other runner up and category prizes.
The top prize will go to the artist who best captures the spirit of Bath and the city is keen to welcome entries from painters coming to the city during June, July and August.
Painters entering the competition are invited to submit as many works as they wish but the first entry must have been inspired by a specific location in the Georgian city. This location will be allocated by ballot when the entry is received.
Sponsored by The Bath Gallery, supported by Future Bath Plus, the competition is open to both professional and amateur painters and has been designed to produce a multi-faceted portrait of a very special place.
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William Morris (English artist 1834-96) Founder Arts and Crafts Movement
Born into a middle-class family in Essex, Morris grew up on his family’s estate with adjoining farm and learned to love the profusion of plant life there. This, his background grounding in the new Anglo-Catholic movement and his interest in medieval history as he grew up, led to his becoming a natural artist with a love of the Church. During his term at Oxford University, he decided against his first calling to join the Church. His lifelong friend, Edward Burne-Jones shared his beliefs in the rebellion against the tastes of the time and social injustice and followed the teachings of William Ruskin.
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During the time between the two world wars there came a period of introspection initiated by Sigmund Freud and psychoanalyst thought, greatly persuasive in the art world, particularly. The main protagonist of the kind of art brought about by looking beyond the classical view of things was the French artist, Henri Rousseau (1844-1910). Surrealists who followed much later were inspired by his way of seeing the world as if in a dream-like state. His naive style was rather child-like but artists saw his fantastical images as thought-provoking and his sylization as another version of the real thing.
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Postcards To The G8: Building a Mosaic of Artists' Interpretations - One Postcard at a Time
In this time of economic and political uncertainty, the premier visual arts organization in the region of Muskoka, Ontario, Canada,
Muskoka Arts & Crafts, is inviting the world's artists to send postcard sized works illustrating their concerns to the leaders of the
G8 nations. The show is called 'Postcards to the G8'.
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Have a look at our new website!! Reproduction Oil Paintings launched in association with Localartist. The success of this venture will allow for the continued operation of Localartist which is a not-for-profit website.  ROP sells reproduction oil paintings of famous old masters or lesser-known artists and customers may request a painting of their own photographs. Our artists reproduce the work to museum quality on canvas and it is delivered, unframed, free of charge to any world-wide destination. We also sell new paintings from a wide catalogue. Click on the ROP logo and take a look.
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