Adebanji Alade VPROI | Royal Institute of Oil Painters

Rush Hour IV

Oil
Summerlight, Clapham Common

OIl
Face of Homelessness Earl Court

Oil
Evening Shadows, Clapham Common

Oil

50 x 76 cm
The Spirit of Togetherness

Oil

40 x 50 cm

About Adebanji Alade VPROI

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Biography

Artist's Statement

Adebanji Alade's work is all about people and places.

He strives to bring the force and power of the sketch into every piece he embarks on. Adebanji is a strong believer in sketching and he believes everything in art starts with a sketch, so, in his work you'll always feel the power and sense of a captured moment. Adebanji works from life and from photo references but the mission is the same - to bring a lively sketchy feel to the completed piece.

Adebanji likes to focus on people because he loves the play of light, moods, emotions, beauty and the variety that each face brings. He also loves places because he gets inspired by the atmosphere, historical importance, mood and the play of light that a particular place can offer at any point in time.

Method of Working

Adebanji works directly from life or from photo references. He paints directly without building up successive layers of paint. He paints shape by shape, a technique he calls inside-out, in which the painting is embarked upon from a spot inside the workspace and he spreads out, still working shape by shape until the whole piece is complete. Adebanji also works from broad shapes to details, a technique he calls outside-in, where the painting starts off with broad strokes to cover the ground and then finished off with details on the inside.

Adebanji mainly works with oils but he uses acrylics, watercolour, pastels, Coloured pencils, charcoal and graphite and he also loves to combine these in mixed media works too.

Biographical Details

1972 Born on 28 February in Hackney London

1992-1997 HND Fine Art, Yaba College of Technology

2003-2005 Diploma in Portraiture, Heatherley's School of Fine Art

2012 Elected an Associate Member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters.

2014 Elected a full member of The Guild of Fine Art, Nigeria

Society Memberships

Royal Institute of Oil Painters

Other Society Memberships

Chelsea Art Society, Guild of Fine Art, Nigeria, Urban Sketchers Worldwide, Plein Air Brotherhood

Scholarships, Awards, Prizes

2018 Elected Vice President of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters

2017 Winner Alan Gourley Memorial Award, Royal Institute of Oil Painters

2015 Elected to Full Membership of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters

2014 Buxton Spa Sketchbook Award

2013 Winner of Pinta Rapido, Plein Air Event at the Chelsea Town Hall

2010 Winner of the Chelsea Riverside Competition organized by Cheyne Walk Trust in aid of Heatherley's School of Fine Art Bursary Fund

2010 Winner of the Best Painting of a London Scene, Chelsea Art Society

2009 Winner of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters Competition in the Artist Magazine

2009 Winner of the Artist Magazine Cover Competition on Summer Scenes

2009 Winner of the Plein Air Category at the Bath Prize

2008 Daler Rowney Award, Patching Art Competition, by The Artist Magazine

2007 Winner of the Under 35 Category (Winsor & Newton Prize) Royal Institute of Oil Painters

2005 ITV Series of Brush with Fame, Winner of the London Wild Card

Exhibitions

Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition 2017

Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition 2016

Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition 2015

Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition 2014

Other exhibitions

2006 Pastel Society and the RP Exhibition at Mall Galleries

2007 Pastel Society, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Royal Society of British Artists.

2008 Royal Institute of Oil Painters at Mall Galleries

2010 Adebanji Alade's Bath Marathon of 212 paintings of Bath at The Bath Gallery

2010 The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea

2011 The Chelsea art Society at The Chelsea Town Hall

2013 The RP Exhibition at Mall Galleries

Publications

The Artist Magazine (December 2007, November 2009, February 2011)

The Artist Magazine, April 2013 Urban Nocturnes

The Artist Magazine, December 2013 Sketching: a Passion

Strokes of a Genius, July 2007 by Rachel Wolf

The Art of Urban Sketching, February 2012, by Gabi Campanario

A Compendium of Drawing Techniques, August 2012 by Donna Krizek

Sketch your World, 2013 by James Hobbs

METRO Newspaper Tuesday, January 22, 2013 Speed Painting in the city's streets

METRO Newspaper Tuesday, June 10, 2014-Think you can draw? Think again?