Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.....

At the beginning of July I bought myself a 3month art pass and started off by visiting the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition. I've not been in years and so loved it. I felt the work was split between 2 moods, the playful and funny, just like Grayson Perry who was the main curator this year and the romantically beautiful. See if you can guess the category in the work below : )

The photos dont really do them justice, they were far more beautiful in real life.

The birch trees above and the hydrangea below were amazingly realistic watercolour paintings.

 This rock face was also watercolour and had the most amazing colours. 

Who thought a bin bag could be so attractive : ) I remember the artist Chris Stevens saying there is always beauty in the mundane, so true!

Fiona Rae's work was beautiful and brought back lots of memories from when I first saw her work at the Sensation exhibition when I was 18 along with the other Young British Artists (maybe not so young now though!).

I fell in love with the prints of Norman Ackroyd whilst I was there, they reminded me of many family holidays to the coast. 

It was a great day out and definitely inspired me to enter next year. I love the soft romantic feeling of the paintings which is what I'm going to start working on next. If you're feeling like you've always wanted to enter and are a bit nervous, go for it and fingers crossed we get through : )