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Brand New!! Rws Contemporary Watercolour Opened Upwardly Contest 2014 & Associate Membership

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This is a quick reminder for all those domestic together with international artists who aspire to go members of the Royal Watercolour Society.

This yr the Royal Watercolour Society has separated :

Previously the ii guide maintain happened at the same fourth dimension with some real confusing together with no dubiousness irritating timetables for the artists making an application for election together with entering piece of job to the competition.

That said I'd soundless await the RWS to pay a lot of attending to the people whose piece of job gets selected together with accepted for this real prestigious juried exhibition.

RWS Open 2013 at the Bankside Gallery

RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2014

The RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition is an annual opened upward contest for artists working inwards water-­‐ based media. It is run past times the Royal Watercolour Society to encourage fresh approaches to watercolour painting, together with to showcase the latest innovations inwards the medium. Any professional person creative somebody who is non already a Member of the Society may enter.

IMPORTANT! 
The Entry Pack is to a greater extent than helpful than most - mainly because it's non trying to cram it all onto 2 sides of A4! Thank goodness for fine art societies which guide maintain realised that clarity is to a greater extent than of import inwards the digital historic menstruation than how few sides of newspaper you lot guide maintain to print!

Note that the entry pack is based on final yr where the entry to the contest together with application for election were horribly tangled up. They instantly guide maintain ii carve upward pages on the website together with ii carve upward application packs together with the processes run at dissimilar times of the year.

RWS Contemporary Watercolour Open Competition 2014 - Entry Form

The large bonus of this competition


The large bonus is that the opened upward entry is non competing with members' piece of job for infinite on the walls of the gallery. The opened upward contest is simply that - a contest with non-members to larn their piece of job hung.

Plus the members guide maintain 3 exhibitions a yr - inwards the Spring, Autumn together with some Christmas/New Year - which way election way your piece of job gets seen to a greater extent than frequently than inwards some other fine art societies.

The Alphabetical Anomaly


Last yr I highlighted things inwards my review of the exhibition which I've rarely had to comment on before.

To live frank - at that spot was something downright strange virtually final year's selection.  I counted the surnames of selected artists together with matched them to the firstly one-half together with minute one-half of the alphabet. The next is NOT statistically normal.
It's non park for surnames starting with letters inwards the firstly one-half of the alphabet to comprise nearly 80% of the plant exhibited. Maybe side past times side yr start the choice procedure at the other terminate of the alphabet?
In addition, I was NOT impressed with some of the plant selected for the exhibition together with this was a persuasion which was real patently shared past times at to the lowest degree some of those who hung the exhibition.

Let's promise the selectors this yr are fully refreshed from their seasonal activities, on their toes together with mindful of the the ask to ensure that those artists whose surnames come upward at the terminate of the alphabet do non larn left out because there's no room left inwards the exhibition.

The RWS must likewise live real mindful of the fact that some artists tin brand their paintings human face a lot to a greater extent than attractive on a digital file together with so they are inwards reality.  To my hear the exclusively thing a responsible fine art gild tin do inwards these circumstances is to spend upward all plant submitted which vary significantly from the plant submitted online.  I'm sure starting fourth dimension to run into why the RA's category of "selected but non hung" makes sense.

Having said that - read on to run into what the RWS has to state virtually this yr together with the measures to address these issues.

Paintings inwards the RWS Open 2013

What tin live entered 

  • All paintings inwards water-­‐based media, including watercolour, pen together with ink, acrylic together with gouache are eligible, regardless of fashion or discipline matter, equally long equally they are painted on paper.
  • The ikon must guide maintain been completed inwards the past times 4 years past times the creative somebody entering it.
  • The ikon must non live larger than 100cm x 100cm when framed.  

Who tin enter


This contest is OPEN to
Any professional person creative somebody who is non already a Member of the Society may enter.
By implication, that means
  • people who are NOT members of the Royal Watercolour Society
  • people who do NOT alive or piece of job inwards the UK
  • people who are NOT amateur / hobby artists
  • artists of whatsoever age (not indicated - but no boundary indicated either) 

Commission together with Fees


For those confused past times VAT, the way the committee plant is that the Gallery volition accuse 40% + VAT of 20% when selling a painting. That way on a £1,000 painting, the Gallery volition bring £400 together with include £80 inwards their VAT render to HM Revenue together with Customs - which way you lot larn £520. Which way your net turn a profit is £520 minus the travel/courier together with framing expenses together with entry fee of £14.  You write downwardly your costs to marketing!

Prizes


You don't go inwards this contest to win prizes - although at that spot are some. You go inwards it to impress your friends that you lot got your piece of job into an RWS present and.or to impress the members with your piece of job together with render back upward for an eventual application for membership! :)

Special points to note

I'm trying to pick out hither aspects which are NOT the same equally the entry conditions for other fine art competitions.  Some are a jolly practiced thought together with should apply to other competitions also!
  • Amateur artists are non eligible.  The operate of the words "professional artist" may perchance ask clarification - all the same it's clear to me that they desire people to go inwards the contest who earn their living past times beingness an artist.
  • Neutral rules! Ignore at your peril.
Paintings must live framed together with glazed to live included inwards the exhibition. Frames must live of professional person character together with should live white, natural or dark wood, with a white or cream coloured mount.
  • Poor character is out. It looks real much similar final year's "oddities" volition non live dorsum this year. There's a real clear contention that plant where the framing is non upward to measure together with requirements volition non live hung - nor volition paintings which differ significantly from the digital image.
Poorly presented paintings volition non live exhibited. This includes paintings inwards plastic, metal, or clip frames; paintings with tinted, non-­‐reflective or no glass; or whatsoever ikon that differs significantly from the photograph that was entered.
You tin review past times posts of past times exhibitions inwards the links at the terminate of this weblog post.

Election to Associate Membership

You tin download the Application Pack for Associate Membership 2014

Applicants are invited to submit 3 framed, glazed paintings together with a portfolio of supporting piece of job to live judged past times RWS Members. If elected, you lot volition go an Associate Member of the RWS, eligible for advertisement to total Membership afterwards 3 years.
The flake you lot won't notice inwards the application pack is that the convention is you lot tin live a fellow member of the RWS or the RI but non both. This is referenced inwards the election pack equally follows

providing they do non belong to some other London watercolour society
Personally I don't sympathise what past times difficulties guide maintain to do with acquaint membership.

Here's the nuts together with bolts of the application process
  • Return your completed application form, a CV, a check for fee of £40 together with a stamped address envelope to Bankside Gallery past times Mon 10 March, 5pm
  • Deliver 3 framed paintings together with a portfolio of small-scale watercolour sketches, studies, drawings together with sketchbooks to back upward your application to Bankside Gallery on Fri 21 March, 11am-7pm 
  • All piece of job must live on newspaper together with must guide maintain been painted inside the past times 4 years. 
  • Your paintings must live professionally framed together with glazed, together with must non give 1.5m x 1.5m.
  • Please ensure each ikon is clearly labelled on the dorsum with your name.
  • All submitted paintings must live available for sale - if you lot are elected the RWS volition select ane of your framed paintings for the RWS Diploma Collection. The remaining ii paintings volition live exhibited for sale inwards the RWS Spring Exhibition at Bankside Gallery (Friday 28 March – Sabbatum 26 April).

Past Exhibitions


You tin review my weblog posts below virtually some of the previous exhibitions below. These include gallery shots of plant inwards the exhibition together with links to the websites of prizewinning artists.

For some argue this exhibition's association with wintertime months frequently finds me knocked for 6 past times some põrnikas or other - or otherwise curtailing exhibition visits due to real bad conditions together with my dodgy feet/balance - so the gaps inwards some of the posts below. It's sure an fantabulous exhibition together with ane I ordinarily I endeavour together with larn to run into if at all possible.

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