Benjamin Hope ROI

Benjamin studied mathematics and physics at university because he was interested in them. His long-term plan throughout, though, was to become a painter and his artistic training happened concurrently through experimentation, practice, and reading. He has been a full time artist since 2011.

Awards

2019: The Michael Harding Award, Royal Society of British Artists Exhibition
2018: Frinton Frames Award, Royal Society of British Artists Exhibition
2017: Winsor & Newton Non-member Award, Royal Institute of Oil Painters Exhibition
2016: First Prize in the Jackson’s Pastel Portrait Competition
2016: Mall Galleries Greetings Card Award: New English Art Club
2014: Pintar Rapido First Prize (The Pintar Prize)
2014: Jackson’s Prize, United Society of Artists Open Exhibition
2014: Runner Up, Lynn Painter Stainers Prize

Other Society Memberships

The New English Art Club
The Pastel Society
The Royal Society of Marine Artists
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters
Oxford Art Society
Blackheath Art Society

Solo Exhibitions

2019: Island Fine Arts, Chichester
2015: Observations, JP Art Gallery, London

Joint Exhibitions

2021: Island Fine Arts, Chichester (Cole, Hope)
2020: Island Fine Arts, Chichester (Hope, Robinson)
2019: Common Ground, Gallery Different, London (Hope, Roberts)
2018: Island Fine Arts, Chichester (Bemis, Hope)
2017: Works, Gallery Different, London (Hooper, Hope)
2017: Island Fine Arts, Isle of Wight (Cole, Hope, Pearce)

Group and Open Exhibitions

British Plein Air Painters: 2018 (Capturing the Moment, Menier Gallery)
Lynn Painter Stainers Prize: 2014, 2017
New English Art Club, Annual Exhibition: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Pastel Society: 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Royal Academy Summer Show: 2013
Royal Institute of Oil Painters: 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours: 2017
Royal Society of British Artists: 2014, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Royal Society of Marine Artists: 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors & Gravers: 2013
Royal Society of Portrait Painters: 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Competition: 2015, 2019
United Society of Artists: 2014
Chris Beetles Gallery: New English Art Club Members 2020
Colourfield Gallery: Winter Exhibition 2017
Highgate Contemporary Art: 2019
The Jerram Gallery: New English Art Club Members 2020
The Jerram Gallery: Christmas Exhibition 2019
JP Pop-up Art Galleries: 2014 (Blackheath and Belgravia)
St Ives: New English Art Club Members 2019
Sugarlift Gallery: Still: A Survey of Contemporary Still Life Paintings, New York 2020
Thompson’s Gallery: New English Art Club Members 2020
Oxford Art Society: 1998, 1999, 2001, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2021
Blackheath Art Society: 2013, 2014

Collections

Work held in private collections in the UK, Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Switzerland, and the USA

Bibliography

Alexander, Talking Techniques: Andrew Roberts & Benjamin Hope, Artists & Illustrators, November 2019, p.30
Miles, Featured Artist: Ben Hope PS, The Pastel Society Newsletter, October 2019, p.2
Gibbons, An Artist’s View of London, All Ways Traveller, 30 June 2017
Walsh, Notebook, From Clapham to Cornwall…, The Independent on Saturday, 21 November 2015, Radar p.10
Hales, Local Colour, Absolutely Battersea & Clapham, November 2015, p.16
Peacocke, The Critic’s Choice, Oxford Mail review of OAS Members’ Exhibition, 09 April 2001, p.26

Publications

Give Oil Pastels a Go!, The Artist, October 2019, p.30
Numbers and Figures, The New English Art Club (online), February 2019
Palette-knife Portraits, The Artist, October 2016, p.37
Plein Air Pastels, The Artist, July 2016, p.23
The Science of Art, Johnian News #37, Michaelmas 2015, p.14
Taken at Face Value, Fulham Residents’ Journal, July 2012, p.13
Get Hyperreal, Belgravia Residents’ Journal, June 2012, p.13
Exhibition catalogues: Observations, 2015; Works, 2017; Capturing the Moment, 2018; Common Ground, 2019

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