RWS/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition
ROYAL WATERCOLOUR SOCIETY BECOME THE SPONSORS OF THE LARGEST PRIZE FOR WATERCOLOUR PAINTING
The RWS/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition invites artists to submit works to the 2008 competition.
The competition, now in its 21st year, is the largest watercolour competition in the UK and is one of the only remaining prizes to celebrate the diversity and beauty of the frequently undervalued medium of watercolour. The RWS/ Sunday Times Watercolour Competition is a celebration of the water-soluble medium, whether it is an abstract, figurative or landscape piece, all works produced in water based mediums, watercolour, acrylic and gouache on a paper support are eligible.
The RWS/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition offers the highest valued prizes in the United Kingdom by awarding a total of £25,000 to artists who demonstrate a high level of skill and creativity.
Artists can submit up to three works at regional venues throughout the UK in June. The deadline for entries is in London on 20th and 21st June 2008. Entry is £15 per work or free to full-time students. An exhibition of approximately 120 works will be held at the Bankside Gallery, London SE1 from 10th – 20th September 2008.
Among the judges for this year’s competition will be:
- Brian Allen, Director of Studies at Paul Mellon Institute
- Frank Whitford, Art Critic for the Sunday Times
- Richard Sorrell, President, RWS
For application forms artists should send a SAE to:
The Watercolour Competition
Parker Harris Partnership
PO Box 279
Esher
Surrey
KT10 8YZ.
Forms and information are also downloadable from www.parkerharris.co.uk. For further information please call 01372 462190 or email RWS@parkerharris.co.uk
21st Century Watercolour
21st Century Watercolour is an annual open painting competition organised by the Royal Watercolour Society, which usually takes place in the Spring. The aim of the competition is to encourage innovation in the use of water-based media on paper and to stimulate fresh approaches to what are considered to be watercolour’s traditional strengths. Artists are invited to submit up to three framed, glazed water-based paintings on paper. Work is selected by a panel of judges. Last year the panel consisted of Gillian Llewellyn-Lloyd from the Llewellyn-Alexander Gallery, David Kitchin from the Rowley Gallery, Richard Sorrell PRWS and David Paskett RWS. In previous years numerous prizes, worth in excess of £10,000, have been kindly donated by various individuals and organisations including the Royal Watercolour Society, St. Cuthbert’s Mill, Baker Tilly, Winsor and Newton and Elizabeth Scott-Moore Fund.
Important Dates
Please check back later in the year for details of the 2009 Competition.
Successful applicants are often encouraged to apply for Membership; in 2007 several were made Associate Members, including Fay Ballard, Bill Henderson and George Devlin. In 2008 three of the four new Associate Members – Thomas Plunkett, Denis Ryan and Caroline McAdam Clark also exhibited in 21st Century Watercolour.
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