Getting my Painting into the RA Summer Exhibition!

I submitted two pieces to the 2017 exhibition. Neither was selected. I submitted two pieces to the 2018 exhibition. One WAS selected' Bob Deakin

'I am a fan of the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. As a younger man, I thought it a bit jumble sale-like. It’s not, and the mix of a piece by a premier league contemporary artist hanging next to a piece by a ‘Sunday painter’ is one of its great appeals...I submitted two pieces to the 2017 exhibition. Neither was selected. I submitted two pieces to the …