2020 Prizes & Awards

The New English Art Club and Mall Galleries would like to congratulate all prizewinners and give a special thank you to all our prize-givers.

With videos, audio, images, and statements by the winners to watch, hear, see, and read, you can experience and enjoy the prize-winning works wherever you are.

Chris Beetles Gallery Prize for Figurative Art

Lyn Gray

Hermione at Home

£2,500 for a non-member artist. Selected by Chris Beetles of Chris Beetles Gallery, St James's, London.

Chris Beetles, Director, Chris Beetles Gallery:

"I had not been aware of the work of Lyn Gray before and on looking over her profile online find that my choice is not serendipitous. She has a lively and spontaneous way with paint and stimulates consistently one’s imagination by investing her subjects with distinct personalities.

'Hermione at Home’ is an artwork handled with dash and panache and skilfully rendered form. Lyn Gray has captured an element of personality in her sitter which arrests attention.

The artist shows us that Hermione is an old lady comfortable in herself and whose direct gaze interests and charms us. She is an enduring and strong image for our difficult times.”

The Hermione Hammond Drawing Award

Merlin Bateman-Paris

Jen Looking Up

£2,000 for a drawing by an emerging artist aged 35 or under

The Bowyer Drawing Prize

Jason Line

Study for Bottles and Buildings

A prize of £1,000

The Winsor & Newton Award

Ruth Stage NEAC

Cardoons in a Kentish Garden

Art materials to the value of £500

The Peter Ashley Framing Prize

Nicholas Baldion

Self Portrait

Presented by The Artistic Framing Company: A bespoke handmade picture frame will be created for the winning artwork, to the value of £500

The Dry Red Press Award

Caroline Frood NEAC

Heleniums

The winning work will be published as a greeting card in the Dry Red Press 'Prize Winners' range, with royalties from the sale of the cards going to the artist