Roger Dellar PS RI ROI ARSMA

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Here Comes the Bride!

Oil

29 x 22 cm (49 x 42 cm framed)

£675

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Lunchtime at the Ivy

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Oil

30 x 40 cm (47 x 57 cm framed)

£1,050

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The Bar, Battersea Arts Centre

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51 x 41 cm (68 x 58 cm framed)

£1,200

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Tooley Street SE12QN

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76 x 51 cm (96 x 71 cm framed)

£1,600

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Awaiting the Tide

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Oil

40 x 30 cm (60 x 50 cm framed)

£1,050

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Evening Light on the Fal

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Oil

30 x 23 cm (50 x 42 cm framed)

£675

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Into the Sun Southwold

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Oil

30 x 30 cm (47 x 47 cm framed)

£695

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Round the Island Race

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Oil

40 x 50 cm (58 x 68 cm framed)

£1,950

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About Roger Dellar PS RI ROI ARSMA

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Artist details

Artist's Statement

Roger Dellar's enjoyment of painting is the process rather than the end result. It is about finding the subject and letting it emerge. He enjoys the surface created, the brushwork and the differences between lean & fat paint. He wants the painting to read from a distance as reality, but close up to be a series of marks. With composition, he likes this to emerge by looking for the spatial qualities of one shape creating an imbalance, and then being resolved by another. He likes to work with a limited palette adding a few brights for emphasis.

Method of Working

Roger works both from life and in the studio, and uses one of the following: oil, pastel, watercolour or gouache. He uses a sketchbook for gaining the information if he is out and wishing to travel light. This can be my first means of understanding the subject. A large proportion of his work is created by painting a series of small oils on location and developing them later into larger, more considered pieces. Then in the studio, when working for an exhibition, Roger will work on several pieces in order not to become too precious, and thereby more critical. In the studio he often uses sketches and photography to gain his first idea, and not to copy but to interpret.

Biographical Details

1949 Born on 29 May in St. Albans, Hertfordshire

Self-taught Artist

1996 Elected a Member of the Wapping Group of Artists

1996-98 Artist in Residence at Petworth House, NT

1997 Elected a Member of the Chelsea Art Society

1997 Artist in Residence at Petersfield Music Festival

2000 Elected a Member of Langham Sketching Club

2001 Elected a Member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour

2002 Elected a Council Member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours

2003 Elected a Member of the Pastel Society

2005 Artist in Residence at the Guildford International Music Festival and Festival of the Sea, Portsmouth

2006 Elected an Associate Member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters

2007 Artist in Residence at the Hollycombe Steam Fair and the Guildford International Music Festival

2008 Elected a Council Member of the Pastel Society

2008 Elected a full Member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters

2009 Elected a Council member ROI

2011 Elected Vice President of the Pastel Society.

Society Memberships

The Pastel Society

Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours

Royal Institute of Oil Painters

Royal Society of Marine Artists

Other Society Memberships

Wapping Group of Artists

Chelsea Art Society

2011 Elected Honary President of Haslenere Art Society.

Scholarships, Awards, Prizes

2000 Abbott and Holder Award, Royal Watercolour Society

2000 Annie Longley Award, Pastel Society

2002 Stanley Grimm Award, Royal Institute of Oil Painters

2003 Unison Pastel Award, Pastel Society

2003 Llewellyn Alexander Award, Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours

2004 & 2006 Daler-Rowney Award of Excellence, Pastel Society

1999 & 2005 Art Event Evening - Non-Member Prize, Royal Institute of Oil Painters

2009 Cornelissen Award, Royal Institute of Oil Painters

2010 Ranelagh Press Award, Pastel Society

2010 The Bath Prize Best Oil Painting.

2010 Le Clere Fowle Medal, Royal Institute of Oil Painters

2011 Unison Pastel Award, Pastel Society

2011 Anthony J Lester Art Critics, Pastel Society

2011 The Arts Club Award, Pastel Society

2011 Honary mention Prize Plein Air, Easton USA

2012 First Prize Chelsea Framers Plein Air Competition.

2013 Caran Dache Main Sponsors Award.

Exhibitions

The Pastel Society Annual Exhibition 2018

Other exhibitions

2008 John Noott Gallery

2007/08 Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London

2007 Guildford International Music Festival

2005-07 Peninsula Gallery, Lewes, Delaware, USA

2004-06 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London

Publications

Watercolour Innovations, by Jackie Simmonds, Collins

The Wapping Group of Artists: the First Fifty Years

The Wapping Group of Artists: Sixty Years of Painting by the Thames, Seafarer Books

Contributor to The Artist

Contributor to The Artist & Illustrator.