Sophie Ploeg

Highlights from the Royal Institute of Oil Painters Exhibition On his blog, Adebanji Alade gives us his highlights from the exhibition at the Mall Galleries. I so wish I could have gone to see it. David Curtis, Nick Verrall, Combes...just some of my favourites. Happy to see Adebanji gave me a mention too! The exhibition is now finished, my painting sold and is off to the US, and I believe many paintings were shipped off to new homes. David Curtis, Deep Snow Mission 2011 Nicholas Verrall, Still Life on Slate Table For Verrall also check out his wonderful book Colour and Light in Oils, which is beautiful, interesting and useful. Detail of my painting Dream

A lovely review of the ROI Exhibition on the fabulous Making a Mark Blog. Review: 124th Annual Exhibition of The Royal Institute of Oil Painters                                       *Sold!

ROYAL INSTITUTE OF OIL PAINTERS ANNUAL EXHIBITION My painting Dream has been selected for the annual exhibition of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. I am delighted to be included in this great show. I hope you can go and visit to enjoy the world of oil painting. The only major national art society that is devoted exclusively to oil painting, featuring a wide variety of contemporary landscape, figurative and still-life paintings by some of the finest established artists working in oil today, alongside work by non-members. During the annual exhibition a number of prizes and awards are on offer, including the Phyllis Roberts Award of £2,000 for a promising young painter. Other highlights include the Winsor & Newton Under-35 Oil Painting Awards. The Royal Institute of Oil Painters, also known as the ROI, is an association of painters in London and is the only major art society which features work done only in oil. It is one of the 9 member societies that form the Federati...