My Favourite Painting
For a number of years we have run a ‘my favourite painting’ competition where our visitors are able to select their favourite painting in our exhibition. The winning artist receives a £25 picture framing voucher, generously donated by The Hayrack Gallery.
Below are the previous winners. Which painting will win our 2026 event?
The winner of our Peoples Choice is Claire Warner, with painting 207 – Wellies and Puddles. Congratulations Claire.
Wellies and Puddles won by just two votes, and it was really nice that all our 54 artists received at leeast one vote for one of their paintings.
Many thanks to The Hayrack Galleries for sponsoring My Favourite Painting.
What an amazing year – we had over 400 votes in our My favourite painting, with the winning artist receiving a framing voucher from The Hayrack Gallery (www.hayrackgalleryonline.co.uk).
This year, for the first time ever, we had two paintings tied for first place. Amazingly, they were by the same artists, Kevin Mortimer!
The two paintings were The Listening Time (picture 107) and The Lone Sentinel (picture 112).
The standard was very high with a wide range of subjects and media. This was reflected in every artist receiving votes or at least one of their paintings.
Wow, we had 441 votes in our My favourite painting, and the winner of the framing voucher from Village framers (http://www.villageframers.co.uk/), was Sharon Ingram with her wonderful “My Best Cap”.
The standard of artwork was excellent, which was reflected in the voting – every artist received votes for at least one of their paintings which is really nice.
(we apologise for the reflection on the photo).
Due to the limitations that COVID put on the number of visitors in our exhibition at any one time, we took the sad decision not to run My Favourite Painting in 2021.
As our 2020 Alderton Art Festival was run online we did not run the ‘My Favourtie Painting’ competition.
An incredible 390 votes were cast by our visitors over the two days of our Alderton Art Festival, and the runaway winner was ‘Annie’ by the fabulous artists Anne Gilbert.
‘Annie’ as can be seen in the photo, was a stunning painting of a donkey’s head (many apologies for the reflections on the photo). This is the second year running that one of Anne Gilbert’s paintings has been voted the visitors favourite!
Anne Gilbert wins a picture framing voucher, kindly sponsored by Village Framers of Lillingstone Lovell.
We had over 200 original quality artwork and over 300 of our visitors voted for their favourite. Due to the quality and variety of the art, it is not surprising that the votes were spread across 120 paintings! It was nice to see that every single one of our 41 artists had a painting voted for!
Our top three paintings had just one vote between each.
In first place was Anne Gilbert with Bracken Hare, a beautiful ink and watercolour painting. Anne wins a voucher for framing from Village Framers in Lillingstone Lovell.
Second place went to Brian Harrington’s intricate Magic Forest, also an ink and watercolour. In third place was a lovely pastel by Jane Rhodes, Incoming Tide.
Our top artists were Brian Harrington, Anne Gilbert, Jane Rhodes, Mark Duffin, Kevin Mortimer, Lisa Campbell, Conny Bailey, Sharon Ingram, David Wells and Val Goldfinch who each received a high number of votes for multiple paintings.
We are very grateful to Village Framers of Lillingstone Lovell for sponsoring this award.
This is the first year we have run a “my favourite painting” competition, where our visitors can chose their favourite painting in our exhibition. Our very first winner is David Wells who receives a framing voucher kindly donated by Village Framers. Lillingstone Lovell.
