Next year will be the 25th Annual Exhibition of the United Kingdom Coloured Pencil Society – which will be held at the Mall Galleries in March 2026.
Below you can find out how to enter. The closing date for entries is 25th January 2025.
My post covers
- coloured pencils as a medium
- the UKCPS Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries
- the Call for Entries
- what you can and cannot enter
- what subjects I suggest you focus on re entries (ie avoid “same old same old”!
- how to enter
- Practical matters
- images
- framing
- delivery
- for international artists: Regulations re VAT, Customs and money laundering
Coloured pencils are a very contemporary art medium
- across many other exhibitions at the Mall Galleries and elsewhere
- in art competitions – used by artists who win major art prizes eg Curtis Holder who won the Portrait Artist of the Year using coloured pencils (see Curtis Holder wins Portrait Artist of the Year (Series 7 Autumn 2020) and PAOTY Commission: Curtis Holder draws Carlos Acosta
- in the botanical artworld – all the time – CP is used extensively because of its scope for amazing control of tone and colour
- by wildlife artists – for reasons similar to the botanical artists
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| PAOTY Commission 2020: Carlos Acosta by Curtis Holder (courtesy of Curis Holder) |
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| Not Quite White 7.5″ x 11.5″, coloured pencils on Arches HP copyright Katherine Tyrrell |
The Silver 25th Anniversary Exhibition in 2026
at the Mall Galleries
To celebrate its 25th anniversary, UKCPS has hired the Mall Galleries for their exhibition from 17 – 21 March at the Mall Galleries.
This is a first for the society. It’s been very good at holding its annual exhibition in different parts of the country. However, like a number of the more niche art societies, it wants to celebrate a very special annual exhibition by holding it where the major national art societies exhibit – at the Mall Galleries.
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| The entry to the Mall Galleries in The Mall |
UKCPS Silver Exhibition – Call for Entries
This is an open exhibition; submission is open to all living artists, aged 18 or over. The artist must demonstrate compositional and drawing skills and the ability to use colour pencil.
There is a PDF explaining the Call for Entries and how to enter for this exhibition
Who can Enter
What you can enter
