Award Winners | Pastel Society Annual Exhibition 2024

The Pastel Society are delighted to announce the Prizes & Awards from the Pastel Society 125th Annual Exhibition. With images, and statements from the winners, you can experience the prize-winning works wherever you are.

Our congratulations go to all the artists, and thanks to every prize-giver.

• The Tom Coates Memorial Prize

£2,000 for the best non-member work in the exhibition, selected and presented by Tom's wife, the artist Mary Jackson NEAC RWS.

Curtis Holder The Puppet Maker

"I always end up drawing underdogs, people who are amazing at what they do but very rarely get the limelight or the celebration" - Curtis Holder

Photo by Mark Sepple

• Anthony J Lester Art Critic Award A certificate and cheque for £50

Skye Seipp Rokuyo

Having only graduated last year, we asked Skye what advice she'd offer to other young artists:

"Keep making work, make as much as possible. And do what you like, during my degree my lecturers were against me doing the double sided tracing paper thing." - Skye Seipp

• The Bob Last Prize

A prize for a work that celebrates the spirit of the late Bob Last (1932-2020), a long-standing member of the Pastel Society who was known for his imaginative use of dry media, excellent drawing skills, attention to detail, and passion to always present work that was different and innovative. With thanks to his daughters, Joanne Last and Jackie Jones, who will select the prize winner. Value £400.

Alex Ayliffe Coastal 1

• The Artist Magazine Award A feature article in The Artist magazine

Andrew Barrowman Trenwheal Hedgerow, Forgotten Gate & Morning Snow Nine Meadows, Cornwall