Brand New!! Kathryn Maple Wins Sunday Times Watercolour Contest 2014

Winner of the Lord's Day Times Watercolour Competition 2014Fatboys Diner past times Kathryn Maple88cm x 64cm (dimensions from her website)

Kathryn Maple, historic menstruum 25, has won the £10,000 outset prize inward the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2014. 

The best sentiment y'all tin forcefulness out instruct of Kathryn Maple's winning entry - "Fatboys Diner" - is if y'all click on the prototype on the STWC Facebook Page - because together with hence y'all instruct a actually large prototype which shows y'all all the calligraphy together with mark-making inward this painting

This is what Louise Wise, Critic & Writer at The Lord's Day Times and one of the judges. had to nation nearly the winner

"Maple’s astonishing travel looks equally if it was conceived inward the Deep South, but Fat Boy’s is, inward fact, a cafe correct past times where she works, inward Trinity Buoy Wharf, far out inward due east London. She fifty-fifty has luncheon at that spot sometimes. Maple, from Maidstone, Kent, is fond of the “odd together with out of house inward life”, together with this spell of Americana inward E14 fits the bill. The travel is large plenty (116cm x 86cm), but pocket-sized past times her standards; she builds each ikon upwards past times layering over fourth dimension and, equally this motion ikon shows, is happy to role watercolours inward a multifariousness of ways."

I accept to nation this varied role of watercolour inward unlike ways is ane of the things which I identified when producing the listing of selected artists - together with their associated websites (see Selected Artists - Lord's Day Times Watercolour Competition 2014).

Her item means of ikon reminds me of 2 prominent together with good regarded artists - both of which I like.

• the drawing chemical ingredient reminds me a lot of the means Van Gogh used to depict amongst a reed pen (see my 2007 weblog posts about Van Gogh: Drawing media together with techniques and Van Gogh: Drawing Landscapes)
• her ikon (as inward paintings on her website) equally good remind me of Peter Doig's landscapes together with ikon process)

I mean value - but can't tell yet - that there's a sure amount of printing amongst watercolour inward the painting.  The contrary of frottage but I can't yell back the term.

To me, it equally good looks really similar a sketchbook ikon which has been removed from the sketchbook - because there's something a plication downwards the middle.  There ane time again it mightiness live on 2 pieces of watercolour newspaper joined together.  However the same prototype on her website sure suggests the former. If true, I mean value that's splendid, because it really much legitimises the watercolour creative soul who observes from life together with paints plein air together with and hence submits their travel for assessment via an fine art contest such equally this one.

The runner upwards together with winner of the £6,000 minute prize was Danny Markey

Second prizewinner, Lord's Day Times Watercolour Competition
Rear View Mirror together with Blue Ship past times Danny Markey

• He was a approximate of in conclusion year's competition
• He won minute prize in the RWS/STWC exhibition inward 2009 (see Exhibition Review - Royal Watercolour Society / Lord's Day Times Watercolour Exhibition) and 
• He was a runner upwards inward the Lynn Painter Stainers Prize inward 2013 (see Lynn Painter Stainer Exhibition 2013: Review)

In an article inward Lord's Day Times Culture 24 August 2014, Louise Wise comments that Danny Markey.

"knows every facet of this competition. An established creative soul based inward Wales, amongst travel inward several collections (including the British Museum), he was a finalist — minute house ane time again — inward 2009 together with a approximate in conclusion year. We knew none of this, though, when picking out his gorgeous sentiment of Falmouth, which measures solely 17.5cm x 25.5cm. It’s ane of 2 paintings past times him inward this year’s exhibition. Generally, Markey paints en plein air, but this sentiment is specially arresting because it is painted from within — within a machine interior, that is. This extra frame, consummate amongst the inevitable air freshener, solely adds to the picture’s charm together with mystery." 

I similar the innovative means of framing the sentiment of Falmouth together with recognise that he is an creative soul who appeals to many judges - even hence I soundless don't "get" why Markey's travel appeals hence much to a greater extent than than some other artists who equally good pigment inward watercolour.  I dare nation somebody volition explicate it to me ane day.  This, for me, sums upwards his approach to his work

I do elbow grease to avoid the picturesque together with hold off at the un-regarded yet mutual aspects of the the world around me.

Paul Newland has won the £1,500 Smith & Williamson Cityscape Prize . 

The Smith & Williamson Cityscape Prize - Paul Newland

Paul Newland is an creative soul who I regard equally a superb watercolourist together with landscape painter. His paintings are ever a joy to hold off at together with many are ones on which I could happily gaze for many hours.

Newland has equally good won the Turner Watercolour Award (the "Turner Medal") inward the past times together with is the electrical current Vice President of the Royal Watercolour Society.

"The Smith & Williamson Cityscape Prize gifts £1,500 to a painter who has done something superlative amongst the urban landscape. Paul Newland has lived together with worked inward the suburbs of northwest London, which render the inspiration for his prize-winning work. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 mix of watercolour together with gouache, it is equally good a mishmash of observation together with memory, a fantasia riffing on the capital’s outer zones. Newland is some other established watercolourist who is currently vice-president of the Royal Watercolour Society."
Louis Wise, Lord's Day Times Culture 24 August 2014.

This is an Artists & Illustrators' article past times Paul Newland on The Turner Watercolour Award 2008 together with Turner Medal. You may notation some similarities amongst the practices of the painters who won the large coin prizes. The affair is Paul Newland brings his plein air sketches dorsum to the studio together with industrial plant them upwards into bigger together with fifty-fifty to a greater extent than interesting paintings - inward watercolour.  I similar them - a lot.

Exhibition at the Mall Galleries

The Lord's Day Times Watercolour  "competition celebrates all industrial plant produced inward water-based mediums, whether abstract or figurative, contemporary or traditional."

You tin forcefulness out run into all the travel selected for the exhibition at the Mall Galleries betwixt 15th together with 20th September 2014 - that's simply 6 days to run into this of import show! Entry is gratuitous together with the exhibition is opened upwards betwixt 10am together with 5pm.

It's specially worth making a see this twelvemonth equally the Derwent Art Prize is showing its exhibition at the same fourth dimension hence y'all instruct 2 major fine art competitions for ane visit!

More posts nearly the Lord's Day Times Watercolour competition

Posts relating to this year's competition:

• The Lord's Day Times Watercolour Competition 2014 - Call for Entries
• Selected Artists - Lord's Day Times Watercolour Competition 2014

For those wanting to run into what the contest was similar in conclusion year..........

• David Forster wins Lord's Day Times Watercolour Competition 2013
• Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2013 Exhibition at the Mall Galleries
• Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2013 - Selected Artists

Use the search push (near the exceed of the correct mitt column) to divulge all the other weblog posts I've written nearly this competition.

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