Rochester Cathedral stars on the One Show
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Earlier in December we were delighted to welcome Adebanji Alade to Rochester Cathedral. He was here to film a piece for The One Show on BBC One which was shown on the 16th December.
Adebanji is the Artist in Residence for the One Show and president of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. In just a few hours he painted a stunning painting of our Nativity. Our Nativity has been at Rochester Cathedral since the 1950s and is always beautifully decorated by our volunteer Flower Arrangers. He also spoke to Dean Philip about Christmas.
Thank you to the One Show for featuring Rochester Cathedral. If you missed it you can catch it on iPlayer.
About Adebanji Alade
Adebanji Alade, otherwise known as The Addictive Sketcher’, features regularly on the BBC’s The One Show, and can often be found sketching travellers on the London Underground.
He trained at Yaba College of Technology in Nigeria, later obtaining a diploma in portraiture from Heatherley’s School of Fine Art in Chelsea, where he now teaches.
He is also the founder of The Addictive Sketchers Movement (his online art school) where he inspires and teaches students all over the world how to sketch anything they see accurately and confidently.
Adebanji is the president of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters; a full member of The Guild of Fine Art in Nigeria; and in 2014 was elected to the council of the Chelsea Art Society. He also belongs to Urban Sketchers Worldwide and Plein Air Brotherhood.
His awards include Buxton Spa Sketchbook Award (2014); winner of Pinta Rapido Plein Air Event at Chelsea Town Hall in 2013; winner of Best Painting of a London Scene, Chelsea Art Society in 2010; the Alan Gourley Memorial Award at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters Exhibition 2017, and numerous others.
Adebanji has a strong following in the US as well as the UK. He writes regularly for The Artist magazine and exhibits with the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. He teaches at the Art Academy, London, and also runs workshops and demos for schools, colleges, universities and art societies.
