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Alan Halliday, Resident Artist |
In May 2007, Alan Halliday, one of the UK’s most respected and acclaimed artists, was officially appointed as English National Ballet’s ‘Resident Artist’.
Alan has had a long relationship with English National Ballet, and will now be concentrating on regular drawings and paintings of the Company during its yearly calendar.
Trained at the Courtauld Institute of Art and with a doctorate from St. John's College, Oxford, Alan is an artist who specialises in paintings of the theatre, opera, ballet and film, drawing from life at the theatre or on location and finishing the paintings in his London studio. The result is a message of clear and colourful intensity, combining deft draftsmanship with an exhilarating pattern of brushwork which makes his images immediately exciting.
Alan has recently been capturing English National Ballet’s performances of Derek Deane’s Swan Lake at the Palace of Versailles and is now busy planning visits to our rehearsal studios prior to the Autumn tour and to the Company’s Christmas Season at the London Coliseum this December.
During an unveiling of twenty years worth of paintings of the Kirov and Bolshoi Ballet at The InterContinental Park Lane, Alan kindly donated to auction five of his paintings of English National Ballet dancers on stage and in rehearsals, helping us raise £13,000 for the Company’s ongoing work. Alan is also working with us to produce a range of joint merchandise that will include prints, greetings cards and posters. The Company will benefit from a percentage of the sales of this range so do look out for these items in the theatres in which we perform.
Wayne Eagling, who knows Alan from his days performing at The Royal Ballet, commented:
“It is such a wonderful idea to have an artist like Alan following the work of English National Ballet. He will get to know the dancers and hopefully warm to them as individuals, and his work will benefit from this. We are delighted to have this record of our ballets which will no doubt be treasured by the Company for years to come”
For further details on Alan’s work, please visit www.dadbrookgallery.co.uk/alanhalliday
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