We’re thrilled to announce the winner of Jackson’s Artwork Prize 2026: Angela Lizon, along with her portray Essex Emerald.
Congratulations to Angela, who has gained £6,000 plus £2,000 Jackson’s artwork supplies.
We stay up for sharing extra about Angela’s follow in her upcoming interview.
Essex Emerald will probably be celebrated amongst prize-winning and shortlisted artworks at our London exhibitions, Reasonably priced Artwork Honest and Bankside Gallery.
Discover the 30 different prize-winners of 2026 right here.
First Prize 2026 | Angela Lizon
Angela Lizon
Oil on canvas, 8 x 10 cm | 3.1 x 3.9 in
“Small however highly effective in its tackle the hyper-macho posturing prevalent in at present’s politics, Essex Emerald juxtaposes aggressive masculinity with early Twentieth-century fairy portray. Angela Lizon’s beautiful portray additionally borrows from the language of Seventeenth-century Dutch artwork, grounding her work in a specific sense of implied gravitas.
The work is a powerful, completely composed anatomical portrayal, with advanced paint dealing with and a delicate contact, whereas its small scale additional subverts its well timed theme. Humorous, punchy, and unique, Essex Emerald left a powerful impression on the judging panel.”
–Jackson’s Judging Panel
“I’m so completely delighted, over the moon and satisfied to bits, to win the Jackson’s Artwork Prize. I can’t fairly consider it. Many due to the judges for selecting my little portray from all the opposite hundreds of fantastic works submitted.”
–Angela Lizon
Initially from London, Angela Lizon at the moment lives and works in Bristol and is a studio holder at Spike Island – a world modern artwork and studio advanced. She studied oil portray at Bristol Polytechnic after which gained a postgraduate scholarship for research at Krakow Academy of Effective Arts in Poland. Lizon is at the moment an academician and Vice President on the RWA in Bristol. Exhibiting recurrently, Lizon has been chosen for the Modern British Portray Prize and twice for the celebrated John Moores Portray Prize.
“The language of Seventeenth century Dutch artwork with its readymade gravitas – mortality, fragility, ostentation – is on the core of my follow. I mix it with kitsch objects, fairies and animated greens, investigating the strain between excessive and low artwork.
I began portray aggressive fairies as a response to the well-known {photograph} of a naked chested Putin using a horse, epitomising to me the hyper-macho posturing prevalent in at present’s politics. The symbolic shrinking of violence and aggression to a minimal measurement renders it innocent. As “fairies for adults” they’re influenced in considering by each the Cottingley fairies and the Flower Fairy illustrations of Cicely Mary Barker, and the magic that occurs in a backyard when nobody is watching.”
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View the opposite prize-winners of Jackson’s Artwork Prize 2026
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