Brogan Bertie's Choice Award 2026

Danny Cameron

The Madonna of the Rose Garden

Jackson's Art Prize 2026
Acrylic, Oil
Canvas
110 x 90 cm

£5,000

“My practice is primarily focused on Painting as exploration, interrogating it’s perceived limitations, it’s validity. Allied to this is a desire to establish a dialogue with Painting’s history; the idea that a painting has had many lives before it comes to pause, and the filmic quality that can be achieved within a painting, have provided the foundation for a rich vein of interest. I want the paintings to retain a ‘rawness’, and whilst numerous drawings may be used as structural references, I try to keep the process as ‘open’ as possible, cultivating a sense of play and susceptibility to other avenues of interest; Cartoons, Magazines, Film and Religious Icons, as well as direct observation. Allowing motifs to surface and settle momentarily, later perhaps being disrupted, flitting between construction & collapse. In these moments, seeing more clearly, travelling as a partially aware passenger, it is about instinctive responses to surface revelations, hoping to discover the work in one of it’s possible raw and most potent states. Delight in the disorder of the day, making hay in the sunshine, haymaker lands slap bang on the painterly glands, having gone through several good chins. Artless. Painting wins.”