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Winner of The Holburne Dukes Portrait Prize 2006

The winner of this year's biennial competition was announced at a reception at the Holburne Museum on Monday 30 October. The panel of judges, including the artist Sir Peter Blake, the Times art critic Rachel Campbell-Johnston, and writer and broadcaster Bel Mooney unanimously agreed the winner as The Artist's Parents (after Dix) by Vincent Brown.

Sir Peter Blake commented that the portrait was 'a beautiful and tender painting which showed great insight into the characters of the sitters.
Sir Peter felt confident that Vincent Brown would produce an interesting commission for the Holburne Museum with the £5,ooo prize.

RachelCampbell-Johnston of the Times said that she loved the 'unsparing exactitude of the portrait, its bleakness and the totemic feel of the figures' She felt that the painting also demonstrated 'great technical competence'.

Bel Mooney revealed that she was immediately drawn to the portrait as there was something touching about it which reminded her of her own parents. She said that 'looking at the figures in the painting you feel as if you are looking at a real life story of two people; in a sense it is a novel in paint'.
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great...

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Places can take over the destinies of the people who live in them. If you listen, a place will tell you what it needs and how to do it.
Freakin' amazing! I love it. Nice job.

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"A good photograph is knowing where to stand." -Ansel Adams
Thanks alot, although it's a painting.
I love photography though, the falling man is the greatest image of our age!
Cheers Gisberto, very poetic - it was one chair and one house and I used a number one brush for one heck of a long time - just over one month one week and one day
oh, amazing :clap:

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Ink runs in my veins.
Luv your drawings m8.
:) Thanks

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Ink runs in my veins.
Good work. I'm blown away.

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Even mollusks have weddings, though solemn and leaden
- Joanna Newsom
To have an artist like Peter Blake commenting (favourably!) on your work.. wow. You definately deserve the accolade. Brilliant work.

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Mooshy Moo, releasing fine music for free
Thanks a lot, it's been a long wait and it isn't the Turner prize, but it's all the encouragement I need.
It was very surreal!
All of the Artists had to attend the presentation and nobody knew who was going to win, I thought that it was a bit unfair and I wasn't going to go.
I think the only reason I went was to meet Peter Blake as I've been studying his work since I was about 8.
He was realy great, very unasuming, and gave me some very great personal advice that I will remember.

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