Updated: May 2022
ANDY DAKIN
'Boy, in Cambridge' Andy Dakin, oil on canvas, 92x50cm, 2022
Visitor's Favourite
My painting, 'Boy , in Cambridge' was voted 'visitor's favourite' (joint with Penny Newman) at this spring's Cambridge Drawing Society exhibition. It's tough to stand out from over 400 entries so I was really pleased as 'Boy' was created with this exhibition in mind, and is located just over the road from the exhibition's venue on Trumpington Street. This is the sixth time I have been voted visitor's favourite since I joined the society in 2013.
Other news is I have been short-listed for the Royal Academy summer show 2022 with the painting 'Red Rebel', and have had one drawing ('Isla Watching') for the NEAC annual exhibition at the Mall Galleries London in June.
My painting, 'Boy , in Cambridge' was voted 'visitor's favourite' (joint with Penny Newman) at this spring's Cambridge Drawing Society exhibition. It's tough to stand out from over 400 entries so I was really pleased as 'Boy' was created with this exhibition in mind, and is located just over the road from the exhibition's venue on Trumpington Street. This is the sixth time I have been voted visitor's favourite since I joined the society in 2013.
Other news is I have been short-listed for the Royal Academy summer show 2022 with the painting 'Red Rebel', and have had one drawing ('Isla Watching') for the NEAC annual exhibition at the Mall Galleries London in June.
'Red Rebel', oil on canvas, 100x90cm, Dec 2021
'Olivia, 21', Andy Dakin, oil on canvas, 60x72cm, 2022
Recent Works:
'Old Lady at the WIndow', Andy Dakin, oil on board, 52x52cm, 2022
'Girl at a Window', Andy Dakin, pencil, 30x40cm, 2022
Recent Interior, Andy Dakin, oil on board, 2022
'Mill Road Cemetery', Andy Dakin, oil on board, 2022
'The Only Room', Andy Dakin, oil on board, 31x41cm, 2022
'Cows on Fulbourn Fen II', Andy Dakin, 60x30cm, oil on board, 2022
'Raf, Asleep', Andy Dakin, oil on board, 25x20cm,2022
Sketchbooks
I have added a sketchbook page to the website. I use my sketchbooks a lot, where my work is predominantly from life, but also I make preparatory works for paintings, and often make studies from my favourite artists to work on mark-making , palette and make notes. I figure that for every 10 or so drawings I get a cigar, but the cigar wouldn't exist without the 10 or so. Hence it's important I draw a lot!
All these and more can be found on my instagram account at @dakinart
I have added a sketchbook page to the website. I use my sketchbooks a lot, where my work is predominantly from life, but also I make preparatory works for paintings, and often make studies from my favourite artists to work on mark-making , palette and make notes. I figure that for every 10 or so drawings I get a cigar, but the cigar wouldn't exist without the 10 or so. Hence it's important I draw a lot!
All these and more can be found on my instagram account at @dakinart
'The Minnow Catcher', Andy Dakin, oil on canvas, 4x5ft, 2020
'Did Somebody Say Something', Andy Dakin, 40x40cm, oil on canvas, 2020
'Dead Roses', Andy Dakin, oil on reclaimed board, 2020, available
'Passageway Onto King's', Andy Dakin, 2021, oil on canvas, 50x76cm, prints available
Studio panorama,2021