About Me

Tushar Sabale is an award winning Indian born, British artist based in London.

Tushar mainly paints from life and plein air (French term for outdoors) in oil colours but occasionally enjoys painting objects and has transitioned from painting portraits to landscapes in recent years.

He places his work between Impressionism and Realism with some Luminist touches.

MEMBERSHIPS:

The Wapping Group of Artists: He is an elected member of the prestigious ‘The Wapping Group of Artists’, established in 1946 with only 25 full members at any given time. The group meets from April to September at selected locations along the River Thames to paint the changing views of London through the years.

Read more about the Wapping group here: https://thewappinggroupofartists.co.uk/index.php

Watch a small clip about Wappers from 1956 here:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh_FlHQR7pA

The British Plein Air Painters: Tushar is also a member of ‘The British Plein Air Painters’ since 2023, a group of professional artists based in the UK that share a passion for painting outdoors, in front of the subject, and capturing the essence of their surroundings with freshness and energy. The limit of the artists has been set to under 30.

Read more about it here: https://www.britishpleinairpainters.co.uk/

London Plein Air Group: Tushar Sabale is a co-founder of ‘London Plein Air Group’. In Summer of 2021, he along with Carol Owen founded a group which has more than 100 members, who come together once a month to paint Plein Air in the city of London. The idea is to encourage, support and form a friendly Plein air community for artists to paint together.

Tushar has exhibited his works in Mall Galleries for the Federation of British Artists at The NEAC ( New English Art Club) and RSMA (Royal Society of Marine Artists).

AWARDS & ACCOLADES:

Tushar has won number of awards through his journey as an artist.

In August 2023, Tushar was awarded, ‘The Green and Stone’ prize for his painting, ‘Girl on a Piano’, an award of £10,000 which is a fully funded solo show for the artist who exhibits a real feeling for their medium and its aesthetic potential.

He was also recently awarded the prestigious, ‘Cadogan Award’ at the Annual summer show of ‘Chelsea Art society’. His painting was chosen amongst more than 1000 paintings by Lord Cadogan for the award for portraying true spirit and culture of the Chelsea community.

He has won many prizes at the Plein Air Competitions in the past including ‘The Great Broadway Painout’.

Tushar has also won a National Award twice in India for his paintings at the National painting competitions.

Tushar has been invited as a ‘Guest of honour’ and been on judge of panels on many occasions for many art societies including the Dorking Art Society, The Woking Art society and for the Chelsea Art Societies’ event of the London Plein Air group’s painting competition.

BACKGROUND:

Tushar grew up in the Indian suburbs surrounded by lush green farms and vineyards. He was taught the basics of art under his guru and art professor, Girish Sahadeo, but also gained a lot of his knowledge through independent study and practice. His artistic talent became evident in the very early years of his life. Annual summer vacations at his grandparent’s countryside home were very inspiring to the young artist who spent most of his time drawing and sketching the scenery, always managing to capture the rustic allure of the Indian countryside.

At the age of just 12 years old, Tushar won first prize and a National Award in a Drawing Competition amongst 1 million students who participated that year across the whole of India.

A year before that at the age of 11, he was amongst the top 2 winners in a similar national level painting competition and has continued to win many state, national and international awards for his paintings.

His passion in the field of art led him to choose Architecture at university. After completing his Bachelor’s degree, he decided to further explore art in the field of Design and thereafter undertook a Master’s Degree course wherein he studied Product Design, from one of the leading institutes in India, The Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.

Tushar embarked on his professional career as a Creative Designer, designing watches for multinational brands like Timex as also other such companies. His move to London in 2006 saw him working for a design patent company that helped aspiring designers to conceptualise their ideas into working products. His experience also includes designing pieces for Hollywood movies while as a designer for a high-end jewellery brand.

Even with his professional success as a designer, there was something Tushar had ignored which was his innate need to paint. After few years of sabbatical, he rekindled his love affair and went back to his canvases and paintbrushes and has not looked back since.

After being a weekend painter for years Tushar now paints full time.

LIVE PAINTING:

Tushar Sabale paints at Live events and weddings. For more information, bookings and pricing please visit the FAQ page on the above tabs and scroll through to read.

GALLERY REPRESENTATION:

Tushar Sabale is represented by some of the very well known galleries in the country like the Adrian Hill Fine Art gallery, Stamford, Russell gallery in Putney where he exhibits regularly in the Annual shows. Tushar has been an invited artist at The Gallery, in Holt and represented in their shows.

LANDSCAPE ARTIST OF THE YEAR, Series 8- SKY Arts:

Tushar appeared on ‘ Landscape Artist of the Year’- Series 8 as one of the Pod artists that was aired on Sky Arts on 8 February 2023 filmed at Royal Ascot.

Exhibitions:

2023:

•  ‘British plein Air Painters’ Annual exhibition, Royal Watercolour Society Gallery (RWS), London- Upcoming
• ‘The Gallery, at Green & Stone’, Chelsea, London- Ongoing
•  ‘Wapping Group of Artists’ Annual Exhibition, Chelsea, London
• ‘Signet Contemporary Art Chelsea Exhibition’, Chelsea, London
•  ‘Mixed Summer Show’ at Russell Gallery, Putney, London
• ‘New English Art Club Annual Exhibition’ (NEAC), Mall Galleries, London
•  ‘Surrey Hills Plein Air Painters’ Group Show, Denbies Wine Estate, Surrey

 

2022:

• Christmas Show at Russell Gallery, Putney, London
• ‘Best of British 2.0’ show, Invited artist at The Gallery, Holt, Norfolk
• Broadway Art Festival, Annual Show at Broadway Museum and Art gallery – Cotswold
• Royal Society of Marine Artists (RSMA), Mall Galleries, London
• Oxford Art Society, Annual Exhibition, Oxford
• Group show at ‘Paintout Norfolk 2022’, Norfolk
• Chelsea Art Society 73rd Annual Exhibition, London
• New English Art Club Annual Exhibition (NEAC), Mall Galleries, London
• Mixed Show ‘ Alfresco’, Invited artist at The Gallery, Holt, Norfolk
• Prize winner at ‘The Great Broadway Paint-Off Challenge’ at Broadway Arts Festival in Cotswold (2022)
• Mixed Summer Show at Russell Gallery, Putney, London
• Mixed Show at Lifford Hall, Broadway, Cotswold
• ‘Winter To Spring’- show at Highgate Contemporary Art Gallery, London

 

2021:

• Mixed Christmas Show at Russell Gallery, Putney, London
• ‘Postcard Exhibition’- show at Highgate Contemporary Art Gallery, London
• Mixed Summer Show at Russell Gallery, Putney, London
• Group show at ‘Paintout Norfolk 2021’, Norfolk
• Prize Winner at ‘The Great Broadway Paint-Off Challenge’ at Broadway Arts Festival in Cotswold (2021)
• Broadway Art Festival, Annual Show (2021)- Cotswold

 

Earlier:

• Mixed Summer Show at Russell Gallery, Putney, London-2020
• Mixed Christmas Show at Russell Gallery, Putney, London-2019
• Mixed Christmas Show at Russell Gallery, Putney, London-2018
• Solo Exhibition ‘Chiaroscuro’ at Nehru centre, Indian High Commission, Mayfair London-2018
• ‘Tricks of Light’ at Riverside gallery, Old Town Hall, Richmond, London-2017
• ‘Nature and Objects staged’ at Riverside Gallery, Old Town Hall, Richmond, London-2015
• Solo Exhibition ‘Sum of Impressions’ at Nehru centre, Mayfair London-2013