Selected Artists – The Columbia Threadneedle Prize 2016

Selected Artists – The Columbia Threadneedle Prize 2016

The names of the artists and artwork selected for The Columbia Threadneedle Prize have been announced. You can find them below – along with some of the images of the artwork

< The last Threadneedle Prize awards Dinner – in the middle of the exhibition
at the Mall Galleries

You will recall I posted the The Columbia Threadneedle Prize – Call for Entries back in July. This week those who entered the competition got to find out who has been selected for the exhibition from 3 to 20 February 2016 at the Mall Galleries in London.

There’s also going to be a second exhibition of many of the works at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence (the city’s largest temporary exhibition space), for a special four-week exhibition opening in June 2016.

I know some of the artists selected below – and I’ve been drawn by one of them!

If you’ve been selected and would like an image of your artwork featured in this blog post please get in contact (how to contact me details are in the side column)

Two Works

  • Maria Bowers – studied graphic design at Bath College of Higher Education (1991) completed a MA in Multidisciplinary Printmaking at UWE, Bristol; regular exhibitor at Royal West of England Academy
    • Justice (photo etching)
    • Lily (photo etching)
  • Lewis Chamberlain b.1966 Studied at Slade; won First Prize Discerning Eye 2001
    • Play Horse
    • To Mark An Occasion

Lewis is celebrated for his hyper-realistic pencil drawings which can take as much as four years to complete

  • Tomas Clayton b.1957 – portrait painter in oils and freelance graphic designer and illustrator. I’ve seen his work before and was very impressed by it and featured it in this blog post about the 2012 annual exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters
    • Apres La Guerre  – see below
    • Chere Capucine – see below


Apres la guerre 1915-2015
Oil on Masonite, 50cm x 53cm
Copyright Tom Clayton


‘Chère Capucine 1915-2015′
Oil on Masonite, 68cm x 75cm
Copyright Tom Clayton