Winter 2024 art challenge gallery

About the challenge
Our Winter 2024 art challenge for members, judged during our last meeting of the year in December, took the theme of portraits - portraits of members of Lacock Art Group. painted by members, to be precise.
30 artists took part, which is most of our membership. Artists could choose their preferred medium to use and the size of their painting, but not their subject.
Most of the subject photos were taken specially for the challenge as they had to be recent - thanks to photographer Keith Clover - while some were supplied by individuals. LAG chair, Joy Tickell, allocated subjects randomly to artists in early October, giving people plenty of time to work on their painting. In the interests of fairness artists remained anonymous on judging night and displayed their paintings for judging unsigned so we didn't know who had painted whom.

The standard of art submitted to the challenge was extremely, as you can see from this gallery. Thanks to everyone who joined in the competition.

Winning portrait
Congratulations to Glyn Overton for her portrait of Angie Weir in acrylics, which emerged the outright winner, after a second round of voting (following a tie between two paintings in the first round). Glyn captured Angie's likeness beautifully and her painting conveys Angie's personality brilliantly.

Graham Brewster's portrait of Dave Cooper was the one that tied with Glyn's for votes in the first round of voting, making this the runner-up. You can read more about this challenge on the news/blog page on our website.

Entries and reference photos
It's interesting to see how artists interpreted their subject so each reference photo is included in this gallery alongside the corresponding portrait. They are displayed in alphabetical order by the subject's first name - so it is serendipitous that the first one is the winning painting of Angie Weir by Glyn Overton.
Please also note that a few of the photos have white strips in places caused by reflections in the glass.

NB page updated on 23/1/25 to add the portrait of Joy Tickell by Chris Crosby - apologies for accidentally omitting this.