Updated: June 2022
ANDY DAKIN
'Isla, Watching' has been selected for the New English Art Club annual exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London, June 23-9 July (extended because of the rail strike).
Anyone who follows my instagram account (@dakinart) will know that I do a lot of these type of drawings in my sketchbooks, so I'm really glad that at least one is any good! It will be among lots of great paintings and drawings from some of the best artists in the UK right now.
www.newenglishartclub.co.uk/annual-exhibition/
Cambridge Open Studios 2022 - 10 o'clock start!
I am doing all four weekends of Cambridge Open Studios, starting on the weekend of Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd July through the 23rd and 24th. Doors open at 10 this year, closing at 5. Address 86 Hobart Road, Cambridge CB1 3PT. There are several other artists in the near vicinity, which is called the 'Coleridge Trail' if you like to take a few in at a time - look out for the flyers.
It is 3 years since my last open studio (OS hindered by Covid) so I will be having an exhibition of entirely new work, plus we have also built a new studio which is full of started/unframed pieces which I'm sure will be worth a look while you are here. A lot better than the cobwebby sheds I worked in before! I will also have prints available of older works.
It would be great to see you as the Open Studio is a wonderful opportunity to show off my work and get some feedback as most of the time I do my art work in isolation and only have my radio and my own brain as company!
I am doing all four weekends of Cambridge Open Studios, starting on the weekend of Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd July through the 23rd and 24th. Doors open at 10 this year, closing at 5. Address 86 Hobart Road, Cambridge CB1 3PT. There are several other artists in the near vicinity, which is called the 'Coleridge Trail' if you like to take a few in at a time - look out for the flyers.
It is 3 years since my last open studio (OS hindered by Covid) so I will be having an exhibition of entirely new work, plus we have also built a new studio which is full of started/unframed pieces which I'm sure will be worth a look while you are here. A lot better than the cobwebby sheds I worked in before! I will also have prints available of older works.
It would be great to see you as the Open Studio is a wonderful opportunity to show off my work and get some feedback as most of the time I do my art work in isolation and only have my radio and my own brain as company!
'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.
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.
'Olivia, 21', Andy Dakin, oil on canvas, 60x72cm, 2022
'Red Rebel', Andy Dakin, oil on canvas, 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