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The Big Picture: coming soon
With programmes such as Watercolour Challenge and Presenters
and Show Me the Monet, UK television has a history of Una Stubbs and
bringing the work of amateur painters onto people’s Richard Bacon
screens, and through a new series, currently titled The
Big Picture, it is doing so again. The primetime BBC One
series, which is presented by amateur painter Una Stubbs
and keen collector Richard Bacon, and judged by
established artists Lachlan Goudie and Daphne Todd, will
follow ten amateur artists as they are set a series of
challenges over the six-part series to be aired next spring.
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passionate about painting that they manage to squeeze it become even better painters.”
into the busy schedule of their working lives. Along with More than 6,000 artists entered to take part in the
my co-judge, Daphne Todd, we hope to give the artists show. Work by the finalists and the overall winner will be
some constructive, critical advice that will help them shown at Tate Britain, London, after the series.
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launched in 2009, around £600
million has been pledged to
66,000 projects, big and small,
across art, films, music and
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Collis’s aim was to raise helping me achieve this project Collis has already started the
£3,500 to paint 365 small by buying art materials and project, which will initially
landscapes in oil on location painting boards, covering include paintings of Wales,
over the course of a year, a travel costs and helping me put Devon and Cornwall, finishing
financial goal she has already on a final exhibition for all 365 in August 2015. She is currently
surpassed. Supporters can paintings.” In return, those talking to galleries about her
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