PaintersOnline will be bringing Christmas to you with its first ever online Christmas Fair featuring a whole host of activities for you to get involved with. There will be Christmas competitions to enter, tips and advice for all levels of artists - from beginners to professionals, Christmas themed step-by-step demonstrations, virtual shops with exclusive offers on art material products and live demonstration videos by well-known artists. A book stall, run in partnership with Search Press will bring you all the latest publications and special fair prices, with free downloadable extracts; and there will, of course, also be an opportunity to buy artwork for that unique Christmas gift - as well as special subscription offers from Leisure Painter and The Artist. The fair will run from the third week of November until mid-December. Visit the PaintersOnline Christmas Fair at www.painters-online.co.uk
Stephen Leho
The Most Important Thing in the World, oil, 21¼x19in. (54x48cm) winner of the RP Award at the annual exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries, London. The £2,000 prize is awarded to the artist whose work best represented the year’s chosen theme, which, this year, was Movement. The painting is about mental health and emphasies the need to stay in the present. See the exhibition at
www.mallgalleries.org.uk