BP Portrait Award in Sunderland

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The BP Portrait Award 2014 - which includes my paintings from The Lace Trail series, opens today at Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens!

Open from 4 October - 19 November, free entry

See more here: http://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/update/2014-10-02/world-renowned-art-competition-comes-to-sunderland/

and here: http://seeitdoitsunderland.co.uk/bp-portrait-award-2014

and the BBC even made a short film about it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-29499344



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!

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