{"id":435,"date":"2009-09-06T03:44:09","date_gmt":"2009-09-06T07:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewtift.co.uk\/portrait-artist\/?p=435"},"modified":"2009-09-06T03:44:09","modified_gmt":"2009-09-06T07:44:09","slug":"ronald-triptych-wins-peoples-choice-in-wales-portrait-award-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewtift.co.uk\/portrait-artist\/art\/ronald-triptych-wins-peoples-choice-in-wales-portrait-award-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronald Triptych wins &#8220;Peoples Choice&#8221; in Wales Portrait Award 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"wpa2.jpg\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewtift.co.uk\/portrait-artist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/wpa2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"86\" id=\"image434\" alt=\"wpa2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.andrewtift.co.uk\/portrait-artist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/wpa2.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a><a title=\"ronald-triptych-blog.jpg\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewtift.co.uk\/portrait-artist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/ronald-triptych-blog.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"60\" id=\"image433\" alt=\"ronald-triptych-blog.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.andrewtift.co.uk\/portrait-artist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/ronald-triptych-blog.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0It sems like an eternity ago now but around 18 months ago I enterd my portrait of &#8220;Ronald&#8221; into the Wales Portrait Award 2, which is basically a carbon copy of the BP Portrait Awards in London. It&#8217;s a great exhibition and very professionally done with an excellent catalogue and prizes , again, similar to the BP. It basically stipulates that all of the artists haveto be Welsh or working in Wales or of a Welsh sitter &#8211; ( where my portrait qualified).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0As in all of these competitions the visitors choices are inevitably different to the judges selections. All visitors are invited to write down their favourite portrait during the 18 month tour \u00a0and luckily for me Ronald came top which I was delighted about\u00a0, so thanks to all that voted , I&#8217;m just pleased that\u00a0Ronald made such an impression \/ connection\u00a0with people.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of me with an oversized &#8220;lottey&#8221; style cheque which I took to the bank but couldn&#8217;t get under the counter. Just to the left hand side of th image is Peter Edwards&#8217; portrait of Ryan Giggs , but unfortunately you can only just see his shoulders, sorry Peter.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The exhibition is at it&#8217;s 6th and final venue Rhyl Museum and Arts Centre until 19th September. I hadn&#8217;t been to Rhyl for years. My Grandad used to have a caravan there in the 1970&#8217;s and we used to go on family holidays up\u00a0the A5 so the visit brough back \u00a0a lot of memories too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0It sems like an eternity ago now but around 18 months ago I enterd my portrait of &#8220;Ronald&#8221; into the Wales Portrait Award 2, which is basically a carbon copy of the BP Portrait Awards in London. It&#8217;s a great exhibition and very professionally done with an excellent catalogue and prizes , again, similar to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewtift.co.uk\/portrait-artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewtift.co.uk\/portrait-artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewtift.co.uk\/portrait-artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewtift.co.uk\/portrait-artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewtift.co.uk\/portrait-artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewtift.co.uk\/portrait-artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewtift.co.uk\/portrait-artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewtift.co.uk\/portrait-artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewtift.co.uk\/portrait-artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}