TALENTED artists from Dorset have been shortlisted for a £15,000 national art prize.
Works by Anne McNeil from Blandford and Ruth Holt from Dorchester have been selected for this year’s prestigious Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize.
It is the UK’s leading competition for contemporary British representational and figurative painting and drawing.
Ruth and Anne are two of 80 artists that have been shortlisted out of 1100 who entered this year’s competition. It is the highest level of entries in the prize’s 12 year history.
Both artists works will be exhibited at the Mall Galleries in London from March 6 to 18. The eventual winners will be selected from these works and announced on March 6 at an evening event at gallery.
Anne, who was shortlisted for her painting ‘Ama’, said: “I am honoured to have been selected for prestigious prize. It is exciting to have my work included in the exhibition.
“My painting is part of a body of work inspired by thinking about memory as a dynamic and creative process, that underpins who we are now and leads to our experience of the contemporary."
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