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James Bland NEAC

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Stegosaurus

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James Bland NEAC
Oil
46 x 77 cm (51 x 82 cm framed)
£1,600
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2021

The Pearl

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James Bland NEAC
Oil
60 x 55 cm (65 x 60 cm framed)
£1,500
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2021

Green Island

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James Bland NEAC
Oil
56 x 51 cm (61 x 56 cm framed)
£1,400
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2021

Crimson Roses

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James Bland NEAC
Oil
29 x 33 cm (34 x 38 cm framed)
£600
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2021

Atlantic

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James Bland NEAC
Oil
120 x 100 cm
£4,500
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2020
Available for collection: 
26 November 2020

Bright Cloud

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James Bland NEAC
Oil
23 x 36 cm (28 x 41 cm framed)
£600
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2020
Available for collection: 
26 November 2020

Natalia 3

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James Bland NEAC
Oil
56 x 82 cm (60 x 85 cm framed)
£1,600
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2020
Available for collection: 
26 November 2020

Red Self-Portrait

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James Bland NEAC
Oil
82 x 51 cm (85 x 55 cm framed)
£2,000
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2020
Available for collection: 
26 November 2020
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About James Bland NEAC

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Artist's Statement

James Bland is a figurative artist who enjoys the surprises and the surrender of control that oil painting uniquely offers. Memory, folklore and dreams are the main subjects of his work and his paintings offer tantalising glimpses of narratives alongside the rigorously-observed depictions of light and form.

Method of Working

James paints in oils but first develops his ideas in sketchbooks before setting up his compositions in the studio with models and home-made props. As they progress, his paintings move away from being purely from direct observation towards memory and imagination, which is where the full range of influence is felt, from traditional Asian art to mediaeval manuscripts to children’s drawings.

James revises his paintings substantially, giving them latitude to change and depart from the original motif - a method inspired by Giorgione and Georges Braque. Objects, locations and figures might be painted out or in, canvases re-stretched and colour schemes completely altered. The alchemy of this unpredictable process is what gives each painting its unique character and excitement.

Biographical Details

1979 Born in Grimsby

2000 to 2005 Studied at Canterbury Christchurch University 

Society Memberships

New English Art Club

Scholarships, Awards, Prizes

2015   The Doreen McIntosh Prize, New English Art Club

2007   The Janet Konstam Travel Award 

2014  Runner-up, Visitors’ Choice Award, The Threadneedle Prize 

2013   1st Prize Winner, Winsor & Newton Oil Painters Awards

2007   Artist in Residence, Centro Verrocchio, Tuscany

2007   Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize, Work collected by Borchard Collection

Exhibitions

Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2018

Other exhibitions

2016   ‘Still, Not Static’, Thompson’s Galleries, London 

2016   Spring Exhibition, Lime Tree Gallery, Bristol 

2016   Art of Painting in the 21st Century, John Natsoulas Gallery, California

2015   ‘Letting Light In’, Lilford Gallery, Canterbury 2015 (Solo Exhibition)

2015   ING Discerning Eye, exhibiting as a specially invited artist, Mall Galleries

2014  Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, Mall Galleries, London

2014   The Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London

2013  Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize, King's Place, London

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