Portrait VI Auction
Portrait VI Auction
The Portrait VI Auction is now closed. Thank you to everyone who took part.
Winning Bid: £250.00 Name: Jonathan Rush
To raise money for this year's Blue-Footed Booby Day (17 June), Georgia Berry and her friend Max will valiantly be donning their running shoes to take part in the Cape Wrath Challenge. Named the "toughest marathon in the UK" it includes five runs in six days across all forms of boggy Scottish terrain, building up to a full-length marathon on the final day.
Georgia has recently been working in Galapagos on sustainable infrastructure and the Blue-footed Booby is her incentive for travelling to the North West tip of Scotland to scramble over hills!
The entire week will be a tough but exciting task. To support their venture, the incredible artist, Vanessa Garwood, has kindly donated one of her stunning paintings for GCT to auction. The framed painting, titled Portrait VI is oil on board and measures 10 x 12 inches.
Born in Israel in 1982, Vanessa Garwood trained for three years in Florence at Charles Cecil Studios; learning the traditional approaches to fine art drawing, painting and sculpture. In 2005 she exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery BP award, where she won the visitors choice award. Primarily a portrait painter, in 2009 Vanessa was given an apprenticeship with the acclaimed South African bronze Sculptor Dylan Lewis. Vanessa has previously exhibited at the Cosa Gallery and the Talisman Gallery in London, also had her first solo show in November 2010 "The Other Side of Green".
Vanessa Garwood's work is an exemplar of the traditional renaissance painting techniques in the hands of a fresh, emerging artist. Her figurative and landscape paintings, drawings and sculptures are inspired by her time travelling in Africa, Europe and South America. Her recent work, like Darwin's natural selection, has evolved from rhythmic line drawings to highly expressive oil paintings, through a diverse and vibrant palette. Influenced by artists from Sergeant, to Goya and at times Schiele, Garwood's paintings consider the human desire to seek an environment, which is most conducive to our needs to settle in and how this is often strongly linked with nature and our connection to it as a species.
The auction of this original piece will end at 9am on 20 June 2011 and we will update this page with the latest offers as they come in. To place a bid, please send an email with details of your name, contact email and bid amount to (gct@gct.org). If you would prefer your bid to remain anonymous on screen then please specify this in your email.
Payment is not required unless you are successful as the highest bidder, in which case the winner will be notified accordingly. Terms and conditions apply.
Don't forget to revisit this page to make sure that you are not out bid!
Show your support for Georgia and Max by sponsoring them and leave a message of encouragement as they embark on this mighty challenge, by visiting their JustGiving page.