
The DE
Collection
The Discerning Eye Collection was launched at the 2008 ING Discerning exhibition with the inauguration of an annual Founder’s Purchase Prize, in honour of Discerning Eye's founder Michael Reynolds. The first year’s Prize was selected by Michael's great friend, Brian Sewell.
The intention of building the collection was both to provide a broader audience for the Discerning Eye artists whose works were selected for inclusion, and for it to be available to galleries to show.
There are now over 50 works in our Collection which has been on public show at The Temple Church in London (2015) then at other venues around the country, including Drawing Projects UK in Wiltshire and, more recently, at Guildford House in Surrey.
The Discerning Eye is keen to make its Collection available to show free of charge. If you are a public space that might like to show the Discerning Eye Collection, please contact us.

Grand Scuola de Rocco - Venice
Michael Reynolds
2006
Donated by the Fillip Foundation

Petruta, Blue Cloth
Michael Reynolds
2007
Donated by the Fillip Foundation

Full House at the Palladium
Nick Botting
2008
The Founder's Purchase Prize

Paint tubes
Robbie Wraith RP
2009
The Founder's Purchase Prize

Self Portrait
David Caldwell
2010
The Founder's Purchase Prize

Emma
Roxana Halls
2010
The Founder's Purchase Prize

Zinnias
Anastasia Pollard RP
2010

The Open Doors, Tsarskoye Selo
Peter Kelly NEAC, RBA
2011

Calliper Earwig
Harriet Mead
2011
The Founder's Purchase Prize

Stag Beetle Head, White
Dean Marsh
2011
The Founder's Purchase Prize

Bee
Dean Marsh
2011
The Founder's Purchase Prize

Island III
Lesley Slight
2012

White Light, Black Cuillins
Allan MacDonald
2012

Bygone Days
Peter Lennertz
2012

Early August, England
Anya Yeatman
2012

123
Nick Tidnam
2012

Stratford
Albert Irvin
2012

Buttercup
Ray Richardson
2012
The Founder's Purchase Prize

Ferg Kelly
Ray Richardson
2012
The Founder's Purchase Prize

Foreshore, Shaldon
Richard Teasdale
2013
The Founder's Purchase Prize

Street Corner, Wet Weather
Michael Ewart
2014
Chairman's Purchase Prizes, acquired from John Penrose

Precipitation in the Ouse Valley
Paul Newland
2014
Chairman's Purchase Prizes, acquired from John Penrose

River, late afternoon
Kathy Little
2014
Chairman's Purchase Prizes, acquired from John Penrose

What's cooking?
Bill Dean
2014
Chairman's Purchase Prizes, acquired from John Penrose

The russet dress
David Brayne
2014
Chairman's Purchase Prizes, acquired from John Penrose

Untitled wasp
Chris Rigby
2014

Structure
Felicity House
2014

Happy valley
Stella Vine
2014

Everything that is not saved will be lost
Andrew McNeile Jones
2014

Hrisey 16.35
Catherine Knight
2014

Camden Winter II
Liz Bailey
2014

Cabin
Niamh Collins
2014

House with palm trees
Danny Markey
2014

Grey chair
Mark Entwisle
2014
The Founder's Purchase Prize

Fire hydrant
Mark Entwisle
2014
The Founder's Purchase Prize

Maple
Dion Salvador Lloyd
2015

Little Skellig
Blaze Cyan
2015

Blackburn College and Cathedral
Richard Cross
2015

Studio corner with skull and cubes
Tom Hughes
2015
The Founder's Purchase Prize

Summer surf, Ardnave
Chris Bushe
2015
The Founder's Purchase Prize

'Hope' Gospel Oak Station, Nocturne
Martin Brown
2016
The Founder's Purchase Prize

Mr Hulot
Patrick Shart
2017

Danse Macabre
Jill Desborough
2017
The Founder's Purchase Prize

Le Faucon
Aude Van Ryn
2017

Bernie Katz: In Memoriam
Lorna May Wadsworth
2018
The Founder's Purchase Prize

Evening Light in the Snow
Thomas Lamb
2019
The Founder's Purchase Prize

Paper Flower
Michael Hyam
2020
The Founder's Purchase Prize

Sunrise, River Hull
Christopher Knox
2019

1904
Elisha Enfield
2019

Poor Creature (after Mick Leigh's Mr Turner)
Sheila Wallis
2019

Cowslips
Olwyn Bowey RA
2018
