The Buxton Spa Prize 2019 exhibition featured work by more than 140 artists. It launched with an awards event at The Green Man Gallery on 27 June 2019.

The free exhibition ran at The Green Man Gallery from 28 June to 31 July 2019.

The judging panel included Trevor Osborne, Louise Potter, Ros Westwood, Ingrid Karlsson, Rob Wilson and Roddie McLean.

The Buxton Spa Prize 2019 winners sponsored by The Trevor Osborne Charitable Trust, The University of Derby and Creative Heritage are:

– 1st From the Slopes – Simon Roderick

– 2nd Scriveners on the High Street – Brian Smith

– 3rd  The Ghost of Saturday Night – Alex Kelly

Highly Commended:

The Slopes towards the Opera House – Nick Grove

The Crescent, Buxton – Nick Brookes

Up on the Broad Walk – Andrea Joseph

The Sketchbook Prize 2019 prize sponsored by Adrian Brown and Jean Rodger, Bill and Sheila Barratt and The Buxton Spa Company was awarded to :

1st Sue Lewis-Blake
2nd Brian Smith

Visitors looking through sketchbooks and artworks in a gallery

The Buxton Spa Teen Prize 2019 winners sponsored by No.6 The Square Tearooms and Accommodation are :

1st Derbyshire Gritstone – Emily Henshaw
2nd Opera House – Alice Lee
3rd Untitled – Benjamin Houghton

The Buxton Spa Children’s Prize 2019 winners sponsored by No 6 The Square Tearooms and Accommodation are:-

1st My Family, My Street – Verity Dawson
2nd Buxton Opera House – Amelia Slade
3rd Untitled – Dulcie Forrest

Buxton International Festival choice paintings chosen by the Festival team include :

From the Slopes – Simon Roderick
Glancing Up – Philip Long
Bridge over the River Wye – Stuart Johnson
Harpur Hill – Yamini McCabe
Never Grey on Market Day – Jenny Aitken

People’s Choice award

Pam Smart won the 2019 People’s Choice award for her painting Cavendish Kaleidoscope. The cash prize was sponsored by Bill and Sheila Barratt.

The Buxton Spa Prize was supported in 2019 by The Trevor Osborne Charitable Trust, The University of Derby Buxton, Creative Heritage, No 6 The Square Tearooms and Accommodation, Bill & Sheila Barratt, Adrian Brown and Jean Rodger, The Old Hall Hotel and Danubius Hotel Group, Buxton Brewery and Buxton Distillery, Buxton Civic Association and The Buxton Spa Company.

For the competition, visit Buxton Spa Prize.