Press & Media
The 'One Show'
I got a big
surprise on Friday morning (29th July 2009) when Giles Brandreth of the BBC1’s
‘The One Show’ turned up with a film crew, an enormous bunch of red balloons and
a red box containing a DVD of Prof. Maurice Cockerill of the Royal Academy of
Art giving an appraisal of my painting ‘Master Class’ which has been accepted
into the Summer Exhibition (along with David Hockney, Damien Hurst, Tracy Emmin
etc.!!)
Apparently, likable Phil Tufnell’s ‘Union Jack’ painting hadn’t made
the exhibition and the show wanted to feature someone who had been
luckier (ME!). The painting sold on the first day so we are still
trying to recover from all the excitement. Let's hope Phil does
better in 'Strictly'!
Thank you Giles and the dear old One Show!
Videos to follow...
Click the media player (left) to start the (unedited) video featured on BBC1's 'The One Show' Friday 19th June 2009. This video was my 'surprise present'
Thanks to The One Show, Giles and Prof. Cockrill of the Royal Academy.
Click the media player (left) to start the clip broadcasted on BBC1's 'The One Show' Friday 19th June 2009
Press
The following article appeared in the Darlington & Stockton Times (front page) on Friday 29th May 2009
Picked especially for Piccadilly
AN AMATEUR artist from Teesdale has had a picture accepted for the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts – two years after she first picked up a paintbrush.
Jane Stallwood turned to art when
osteoporosis affected her other hobbies.
Master Class was one of the works selected from more than
10,000 submissions this year to the academy in London’s
Piccadilly.
“I am in shock,” said Mrs Stallwood, 65. “It is such an
honour, and I certainly didn’t expect it. I am very
flattered.”
She is upset, however, that her condition
will prevent her travelling to London to see the exhibition,
which opens on June 8 and runs until August 16.
She said: “I used to love to dance, go walking and take
photos, but when I got the illness, I couldn’t do those any
more, so I decided to take up art.”
She is indebted to her tutor, Geoff Hewitt, who gave her
lessons at her home in Stainton, near Barnard Castle.
“If it wasn’t for Geoff, I would never
have been able to take up art,” said Mrs Stallwood. She
submitted the oil painting because Mr Hewitt was
particularly fond of that picture. It depicts her husband,
Melvyn, teaching their six-year-old grandson, Joshua Spires,
to play the piano. “My husband is a pianist and was at the
piano with my grandson, and it looked really lovely,” she
said.
After taking a photograph from behind, she started to paint
the scene. “I’m not sure what made it stand out to judges,”
she said. “They must have just found something which
appealed to them.” Coincidentally, Mrs Stallwood has other
paintings on show at Darlington Arts Centre until June 16.
The article below appeared in the Teesdale Mercury on
Wednesday 17th June 2009
