The Society of Wildlife Artists and Mall Galleries are delighted to announce the Prizes & Awards from The Natural Eye 2020.

John Scott Martin RSMA PPRBSA FRSA shares more pages from his sketchbooks

Lockdown forced a lot of us into different work practices, especially if we were used to going out to find our subjects. Making bigger pictures from my plein air studies was a way for me to keep happy working in the studio, and I'm doing it more, even now that (for the moment) I don't have to.

The Royal Society of Portrait Painters and Mall Galleries are delighted to announce the Prizes & Awards from the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2020.

For as long as I can remember there has always been a discussion (and sometimes heated arguments) about where and how painters get their inspiration and ideas to work from and in particular whether it’s OK to work from photographs or whether there is something special about those who choose to work on the spot en plein air. For those...