Cass Art - Portraiture Today

What makes a successful portrait and what does it mean to be a portrait artist today? Come and say hello to me and my fellow BP Portrait Award artists at Cass Art this evening for a discussion on Portraiture today. Cass Arts are holding a talk followed by a Q&A session featuring exhibiting BP Portrait Award 2014 artists Melissa Scott-Miller, Lantian D, Robert O'Brien, John Murphy Woolford, Clemetine Williamson (Events Manager at the National Portrait Gallery) and myself. 


http://www.cassart.co.uk/customer/workshops

Talk starts at 7.30pm

Spring Post - BP Portrait Award 2013 visits Wolverhampton

Spring 2014

BP Portrait Award 2013 Wolverhampton

My painting 'Mrs. Damon & Mrs. Healey' is visiting Wolverhamton for the final stop in the tour of the BP Award Exhibition 2013

Opens at Wolverhampton Art Gallery

1st. March - 31st. May 2014

Mrs Damon & Mrs Healey, Oil on Canvas, TAS

Please visit them to say hello if you're in the area!

Wolverhampton Art Gallery

Lichfield Street

Wolverhampton

West Midlands

WV1 1DU

Mon-Sat 10 am - 5pm Closed Bank Holidays

Admission Free

http://www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk/events/bp-portrait-award-2013/

Autumn Post - Village of the Damned

Autumn 2013

Village of the Damned

In honour of my upcoming visit to The Chiller Expo in New Jersey, USA, I am using this post to feature some of my more recent artwork. I have been an actress since the age of two and over the years have collected many photographs of my work. I have had the luck to appear alongside my twin sister in many feature films and TV series and wanted to use these great memories in my artwork. 'The Villlage of the Damned' and 'Timeslip' are both featured below:

The Village of the Damned, 2013, mixed media, TAS

Timeslip, 2013, mixed media, TAS

And, if you are a fan, friend or co-star and near New Jersey this weekend then pop along to see me at The Chiller Expo, from the 25th -27th October, 2013. I shall be there along with many other featured artists including my co-stars from Village of the Damned. See you there!

Barbara Shelley, the late Wolf Rilla (Director) & Teri Scoble, 2004

BP Portrait Award 2013 Mrs Damon and Mrs Healey

Spring 2013

BP Portrait Award 2013 - 'Mrs Damon & Mrs Healey'

"The BP Portrait Award showcases fifty-five of the most outstanding and innovative new portraits from around the world. From informal and personal studies of friends and family to revealing paintings of famous faces, the exhibition features a variety of styles and approaches to the contemporary painted portrait."

Mrs Damon and Mrs Healey, 2013, Oil on Canvas, Teri Scoble

I am pleased to announce that my portrait 'Mrs Damon and Mrs Healey' is to be exhibited as part of the BP Portrait Award 2013 at The National Portrait Gallery. You can imagine my delight! I have been having a good nosey at the other artists who have been selected and am ecstatic to have my work chosen to be exhibited alongside truly talented portrait artists at such a prestigious gallery.

The BP Portrait Award is an event I hold in the highest regard. I adore portraiture and the ability portraits have to capture a moment in the subjects life. To be included in this year's exhibition is an honour and has spurred me on creatively to follow further portraiture projects.. so watch this space.

The painting 'Mrs Damon & Mrs Healey' captures a moment in time in the lives of two elderly women. I was at the hairdressers and whilst sitting reading a magazine I heardtwo ladies behind me chatting. They were giggling like a couple of schoolgirls,so free and full of life; their laughter and gossip belied their age. I hope the viewer will feel included in their conversation; to wonder what they are saying, what’s in the envelope…..just as I did. My reflection is painted into the hood dryer.

I asked their permission to take some brief sketches and notes and some referencephotos and asked for their names. True to traditional form they replied "Mrs Damon and Mrs Healey' and fell about in fits of giggles again when I explained that I wanted to paint their portrait they were both delighted, especially Mrs Damon.

I returned later to Ditton Klippers to complete further details of the salon and asked the owner how the two ladies were. Unfortunately, I was informed that Mrs Damon had passed away. However, I am glad to have captured her in a painting that shows her so full of vitality and joy and hope her relatives and friends see this too.

To find out more about the exhibition visit:

BP Portrait Award 2013

Late Summer Features...

Summer was full of many distractions from my painting; garden parties, trips to the seaside and rainy days spent haunting galleries. However, I dutifully took my sketch book along with me and sketched at every chance I got. Over the season my kitchen was filled with soft fruits and flowers and so this feature is dedicated to summer fruits...I even experimented with painting using the fruit's own natural dyes from the juice.



Very Tasty. 11.07.12 Graphite, coloured pencil, watercolour & strawberry on watercolour paper. 

Very Tasty. 12.07.12. Graphite, coloured pencil, watercolour, strawberry on watercolour paper.

 


Before and After. 22.07.12 Graphite, coloured pencil & cherry on watercolour paper. 

Before and After. 22.07.12. Graphite, coloured pencil & cherry on watercolour paper

Do You Like My Earring? 12.5x7.5cm. c 1996 Miniature oil on canvas board. 

Do You Like My Earring? 12.5x7.5cm. Miniature. oil on canvas board

Late Spring Features...

Late Spring Features ...

I have been pottering in my garden for the past few months, promising to get out my watercolours and work on some plant studies. Yet, the undecided weather has proven to be a bit too wet for outdoor watercolours and so I have had to keep myself contented with work on new projects in my glass-covered studio. Here's a sneak preview at some finished and some ongoing paintings I have been busy with in the name of fresh starts and Springtime.

Self Portrait 2012. Oil on Canvas

This self portrait came about through a longing to explore new techniques in my painting, to get 'outside my box' so to speak. It is the first in a series, each of which explores the geometric shapes and how we fit into them (the idea was sparked by the cardigan I am wearing in the portrait).

Self Portrait, 2012. Oil on Canvas. Teri Anne Scoble

Lydia in a Green Scarf. Gouache, graphite and Chalk on Brown paper. 22.07.11

Lydia in a Green Scarf, 22.07.11 Gouache,  Graphite and Chalk on Brown Paper. Teri Anne Scoble

Admittedly done Summer 2011 (so not really so new) I have included this in my Spring features any way. The flash of green catches my eye every time I walk past this study and reminds me of why the rain is still pouring.

Julian. 02.12.11. Watercolour on paper

Julian 02.12.11, Watercolour on paper. Teri Anne Scoble

SNEAK PREVIEW...

I am working on my new Masterpiece (!) at the moment and wanted to give you a sneaky peek at what I have been up to! So here you go...

Close up of painting, Teri Anne Scoble. 2012

Not much so far! I would love to know if you can guess what the completed picture will be of! This hand is finally coming together now, although there is so much more to be done! 

Winter's Features

With Christmas been and gone my studio is currently full of life. While I work tirelessly to complete a selection of paintings I intend to enter into a few of the annual painting exhibitions the deadlines draw ever closer! The portrait I am currently working on is intended to be entered into the BP Portrait awards 2012 in the National Portrait Gallery...but I may have to wait until next year if it's not complete in time so watch this space!

In the meanwhile I am continuing to rediscover some of my old favourites and push on with the new studies... Here is a small selection of portraits in the theme of friendship for this bleak but beautiful time of year...(please forgive me friends if yours is not here)

Christian Holder January 2011
watercolour & graphite

Christian Holder, January 2011. watercolour & graphite on paper. Teri Anne Scoble

This is a study I did of my school friend Christian Holder during a luncheon together last year in January.  Christian was a principal dancer in the Joffrey Ballet in New York, it was probably due to his dancing feet that he was a restless model during this study and so I only had thirty minutes to complete it!

Lucy, 25/11/11. watercolour & graphite on paper. Teri Anne Scoble

Lucy 25.11.11

watercolour & graphite

Lucy is one of my most recent studies. On the plea of a friend I have begun to do more clothed life studies... so this one is for you Sheila!

Margaret 11.5.11
watercolour & graphite

Margaret.11.03.11.  watercolour & graphite on paper. Teri Anne Scoble

This study of Margaret always makes another friend smile. She says it is Margaret's warming smile and carefree expression that she loves. 

So, for now I will return to my portrait painting until spring emerges...hopefully with a completed piece in time for the exhibition!