Sophie Ploeg

The National Portrait Gallery has started selling beautiful prints of some of my BP Travel Award work. You can see them framed and on the wall in their Print Gallery, which is downstairs, next to the book shop. Price £200. They are also available online, just follow this link : Via my website you can buy beautiful small prints. They are 4x6”/10x15cm on heavy quality card, with a red decorative edge. Almost all Lace Trail paintings are available.  They cost £8 each including postage to anywhere in the world. They would make lovely gifts and are perfect for framing. Please order here (just choose which image you like from the drop down menu and pay via paypal) For an organised list of ALL blog posts that I wrote during the BP Travel Award project (2 years), please  see this page on my blog!

The BP Portrait Award is now open to the public! I’ve had some crazy busy days but most enjoyable days in London, and I am pretty tired so will just post a few pictures. More info to follow! photo Katherine Tyrrell / Making a Mark My book is for sale in the shop!

with just over a week to go before the BP Portrait Award 2014 opens to the public here is a summary of what I have been doing and what to expect within the exhibition. The Lace Trail, BP Travel Award 2103 will be exhibited within the BP Portrait Award 2014 exhibition. ◊◊◊◊◊◊ 17th Century Old Master paintings and sumptuous Jacobean styled costumes are some of the associations had and the inspiration for a series of paintings displayed at the National Portrait Gallery as part of the BP Portrait Award 2014 exhibition.  After winning the BP Travel Award in 2013 Sophie Ploeg set out to research how lace and fabrics were represented in early 17th century portraiture. Inspired, she created a series of 10 new paintings which tries to connect women and style from the early 17th century with women of today. Her book tells the story of her year and catalogues the paintings. For an organised list of ALL blog posts that I wrote during the BP Travel Award project (2 years), p...