{"Id":8683,"Name":"Pippa Chapman","Biography":"\u003Cp\u003EI was born and raised in Australia and have lived overseas in the UK, France and Oman for many years. I now reside back in my home country of Australia where I live and work as a full-time professional artist. I have been painting for over thirty-five years and professionally full-time for twenty five years. In that time I have\u0026nbsp;had much international success, winning many awards, collaborating with many galleries, been published with UK publishing houses and worked with multiple charities providing works for charitable auctions and fundraising. I have also been an in-residence and demonstrating artist at many events. I continue my career as an international multi-award winning artist who travels regularly between Europe and Australia, painting, studying and exhibiting my work in various galleries and exhibitions.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI began as a self-taught artist, painting a wide variety of subjects from wildlife to portraits using different mediums before settling on oil painting. I have always been inspired by the great European Masters from the Early Renaissance to the 19th Century European Academies and my work is influenced by these styles. I spent many years studying, researching and experimenting with these techniques, painting directly from life using the sight-size methodology in my studio in Australia and the UK.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the last fifteen years, I have had a continuous course of studies in Florence, Italy, specifically targeting these methods, and further enhancing the knowledge already gained through my own research. I have completed many courses at the Angel Art Academy and have had tuition with the Maestro Michael John Angel, in order to continue to grow and learn.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMy paintings take many months of patience and dedicated hard work to produce, with the aim of producing work of quality that brings ongoing pleasure to patrons for years to come. I try to imbue a sense of peace and tranquility in my work with a minimalist approach, without losing the strength of colour or the drama of light.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI have been privileged enough to win many international awards including: \u0027Best Oil in Show\u0027 and \u0027Finest Brushwork in Show\u0027 at London\u0027s prestigious Mall Galleries; finalist in the UK \u0027Not The Turner Prize\u0027; People\u0027s Choice award; the \u0027Best Realist Art Award\u0027 among others at Australia\u0027s largest exhibition of realist art, The Camberwell Art Show; Melbourne;\u0026nbsp; Art Renewal Centre\u0027s International Salon finalist; finalist in Australia\u0027s Mortimer Prize; Cover of Horse and Hound magazine, UK;\u0026nbsp; Art Excellence awards, Melbourne; and many other \u0027Best in Show\u0027 prizes and society awards. My work has also been exhibited by numerous venues and galleries, including Christies, London, and I am represented by renowned International Print Specialists Rosenstiel\u0027s, and have also had work published by various card and retail Companies.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI am represented by galleries in the UK and Australia and my paintings are found in many private collections worldwide. I am and have been a member of several prominent art societies around the world and am committed to supporting charitable trusts and foundations, regularly donating artworks for charity auctions.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMy goal is to produce quality paintings and to teach and pass on what I have learnt to future generations of artists using the classical methods and techniques of oil painting.\u003C/p\u003E","BiographicalImageUrl":"/Artist/868/8683/Images\\6feebc62-ee7e-4a6d-9251-1a9a2fd94138.jpg","Awards":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0027Best Oil in Show\u0027 Mall Galleries, London; \u0027Finest Brushwork in Show\u0027 Mall Galleries, London; \u0027Best Realist Art\u0027 Award, Camberwell Art Show, Melbourne; Art Excellence Awards, 1st, 2nd \u0026amp; 3rd prizes at several AGRA exhibitions, Melbourne; \u0027People\u0027s Choice Award\u0027 Clare Art Society Show, Australia; Cover of Horse \u0026amp; Hound Magazine, UK; Royal Society of Artists South Australia, Annual Exhibition Awards; Finalist in \u0027The Mortimer Prize\u0027, Australia; ARC Salon Finalist; London\u0027s \u0027Not the Turner Prize\u0027 Finalist, Mall Galleries, London; multiple Society Awards and online prizes.\u003C/p\u003E","HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":true,"HasRelationships":false,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":false,"HasLetters":false,"HasLibraryItems":false,"HasProducts":false,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":false,"TotalArtworks":20}