bastiaen art

Happy to announce that my painting of ‘Adam’ has been through the first selection for the Almenara Art Prize 2023.

1^st round:

Almenara Art Prize 2023 Online exhibition

Dates: 1^st August – 31^st October 2023

link to The Almenara Collection

link to online exhibition

“The Almenara Art Prize is an international online painting competition that offers more than $22000 in cash awards and other prizes. Categories include Figurative, Portrait, Drawing, Landscape, Plein Air Painting and Still Life.

Almenara is a non-profit initiative to promote artists and an online and social media platform to connect artists, art lovers, collectors, galleries, and other prominent people around the art world. We organize events and art contests and collaborate with art schools, art organizations and clubs. We also promote artists, their works, and exhibitions. “

Thanks to Adam, who inspired me with his gaze and the bunch of hair that swirls down on his face.

Special thanks to my partner Franco for all his support and advice.

Thanks to the jury: B. Eric Rhoads, Suzie Baker, Christine Drewyer, Peter Trippi, Bryan Mark Taylor, Dan Thompson, John Dalton, John Pototschnik, Gabriela Gonzalez Dellosso, Joe Paquet, and Emilie C. Dietrich.