Ian Sidaway
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| Ian Sidaway | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1951 Tamworth, Staffordshire, England |
| 🏳️ Nationality | British |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Twickenham college of technology |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | landscape painting, illustration, botanical art, portrait, teaching |
| Style | Landscape painting |
| 🌐 Website | iansidaway |
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Ian Sidaway (born 1951) is an English painter, landscape artist, illustrator and artist's teacher. He is an established landscape artist with a particular interest in colour combinations, and a watercolour artist.
Biography
Ian Sidaway was born 1951 into a mining and clayworking community near Tamworth, Staffordshire. After completing a foundation course at Nuneaton school of art, he went on to study graphic design at Twickenham college of technology and went on to work for a short time in advertising. After working for a brief spell as a designer, he began to concentrate on painting in the early 1970s. For several years he worked as a builder, carpenter, and gardener to supplement his income. Throughout the 1980s and 90s, he painted portraits to commission and began to illustrate books on art techniques. He exhibited widely at Federation of British artists open exhibitions, the Royal Academy summer exhibition, Agnews gallery, and various other galleries in London, Brighton, and the USA. Through the 1980s he concentrated on commissioned portrait work. The 1990s brought another change in direction with book illustrations on various subjects including travel, food, and gardening. He went on to write and produce his own books, with 32 titles written to date. There have been many contributions to various magazines on art techniques and consultancy work on several art part works. He then began to illustrate practical art books for various authors before beginning to author his own books.
He has been a regular contributor to various art part works and practical art magazines. For several years he taught at summer painting courses and workshops near Arezzo in Tuscany and Venice, Italy.
In 2008 he decided to do less publishing work and concentrate on producing works to exhibit. Of late, his work concentrates on the landscape in the UK and abroad. Watercolour is the medium that he now favours. In 2010 he was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours.
Ian Sidaway works in a range of different materials but constantly returns to watercolour. He uses traditional transparent watercolour techniques, with paint being applied using a wide range of tools other than brushes. Current concerns and subject matter deal with the landscape both in the UK and abroad. Drawings and paintings are made on location together with photographs and written notes. Paintings are completed in the studio. Strong composition, design, and solid draughtsmanship, together with the simple pleasure of exploiting and using the materials are his constant concerns. His intentions are not to create a photographic representation but a synthesis of things seen, something that hints at a ‘sense of place’.
Teaching
He has been a regular contributor to various art part works and practical art magazines. For several years he taught at summer painting courses and workshops near Arezzo in Tuscany and Venice, Italy. Between 1991 and 2015 he taught art and design. He also taught painting and drawing for adults, for over twenty years.
Society Memberships
- Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours
Awards
Exhibitions
Between 1981 and 2016, Sidaway's work was shown in exhibitions.
- New Grafton Gallery, London (1981, 1983, 1986)
- Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours 205th Exhibition
- Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition 2014
- Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours 2015
- Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition 2015
- Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours 2016
Other exhibitions
- The Pastel Society. Pastels Today
- The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour. Annual Open Exhibition
- RI RWS High Watermark ll
- The Royal Watercolour Society 21st Century Watercolour
- The Royal Society of British Artists. Annual Open Exhibition
- Chelsea Arts Society. Annual open Exhibition
- ING Discerning Eye Exhibition
- Sunday Times Watercolour Competition
- Orleans House Gallery Twickenham. Network West London Artists Exhibition
- The Forum Gallery Bath. RI group exhibition
- West Cornwall Gallery Truro. RI Group Exhibition
- Minster Gallery Winchester. RI Group Exhibition
- Borchard Self Portrait Competition
Publications
Over 30 titles as author, including:
- Pastels in 10 steps
- Drawing in 10 steps
- Art course step by step
- How to draw landscapes
- How to draw still life
- Everything you ever wanted to know about art materials
- Easy Acrylics
- The watercolour artist's paper directory
- The Artists and Illustrators magazine: Articles
- The Artist Magazine: Articles
External links
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- 1951 births
- 20th-century English artists
- 21st-century English artists
- 20th-century British artists
- 21st-century British artists
- 20th-century English painters
- 21st-century English painters
- English male painters
- English watercolourists
- English landscape painters
- English illustrators
- Botanical illustrators
- People from Tamworth, Staffordshire
