{"id":165467,"date":"2025-09-28T07:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T07:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/165467\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T07:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T07:19:07","slug":"girl-10-wins-award-for-painting-inspired-by-ls-lowry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/165467\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl, 10, wins award for painting inspired by LS Lowry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mrs Copley added: &#8220;We found her bold colours and intricate detail so engaging and admired her approach of painting life as she saw it around her, just as LS Lowry did.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We hope she continues to pursue and develop her wonderful artistic talents. We would like to thank and commend all of the entrants of this year&#8217;s Copley Prize, and encourage them all to keep producing fantastic artwork.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Claire Stewart, curator of the LS Lowry collection, said: &#8220;LS Lowry spent a lot of time on the streets of Manchester and just painted what he saw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What is marvellous about Sophia&#8217;s picture is that she has done the same.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She has painted just what she might see on a walk through town and filled it with colour and vitality. It&#8217;s a very worthy winner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The painting will be on display at the Lowry theatre for a year with the Woking-born artist&#8217;s work expected to be viewed by up to 100,000 visitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mrs Copley added: &#8220;We found her bold colours and intricate detail so engaging and admired her approach of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-165467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}