landscape artist of the year

Presenter Stephen Mangan is back with the tenth anniversary series of Landscape Artist of the Year, travelling around the country on the hunt for the nation’s best landscape artist. This year 2000 artists applied and just 48 were selected to take part in six heats. This year’s stunning locations range from magnificent mountains to busy cityscapes and feats of Victorian engineering.

One heat sees the artists looking out over Llanberis Lake, at the foot of Yr Wyddfa – or Mount Snowdon. Another takes them to Bristol’s Clifton Suspension Bridge and on to the city’s bustling harbourside. And two London heats take in Hampton Court Palace and the newly regenerated St Pancras Basin. The artists are working under the watchful eye of judges Kathleen Soriano, Kate Bryan and Tai Shan Schierenberg.

In each location, our artists are also joined by a further 50 ‘wildcard’ artists, who come along for the day, hoping to win just one wildcard place in the semi-final – this year held at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard looking out at Victorian megaship HMS Warrior.

The final of the competition takes place at Stonehenge – where three artists compete to win the grand prize – a £10,000 commission for the Courtauld Gallery to create a landscape of the South of France inspired by painters Monet, Cezanne and Van Gogh.