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 inwards the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2014. 

The best sentiment y'all tin larn of Kathryn Maple's winning entry - "Fatboys Diner" - is if y'all click on the prototype on the STWC Facebook Page - because as well as then y'all larn a actually large prototype which shows y'all all the calligraphy as well as mark-making inwards this painting

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

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

I choose to tell this varied purpose of watercolour inwards dissimilar ways is ane of the things which I identified when producing the listing of selected artists - as well as their associated websites (see Selected Artists - Lord's Day Times Watercolour Competition 2014).

Her item agency of prototype reminds me of ii prominent as well as good regarded artists - both of which I like.

• the drawing chemical cistron reminds me a lot of the agency Van Gogh used to depict alongside a reed pen (see my 2007 weblog posts about Van Gogh: Drawing media as well as techniques and Van Gogh: Drawing Landscapes)
• her prototype (as inwards paintings on her website) likewise remind me of Peter Doig's landscapes as well as prototype process)

I mean value - but can't tell yet - that there's a sure amount of printing alongside watercolour inwards the painting.  The opposite of frottage but I can't retrieve the term.

To me, it likewise looks rattling similar a sketchbook prototype which has been removed from the sketchbook - because there's something a fold downwards the middle.  There over again it mightiness live ii 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 rattling much legitimises the watercolour creative someone who observes from life as well as paints plein air as well as and then submits their locomote for assessment via an fine art contest such equally this one.

The runner upward as well as winner of the £6,000 minute prize was Danny Markey

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

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

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

"knows every facet of this competition. An established creative someone based inwards Wales, alongside locomote inwards several collections (including the British Museum), he was a finalist — minute house over again — inwards 2009 as well as a approximate lastly year. We knew none of this, though, when picking out his gorgeous sentiment of Falmouth, which measures exclusively 17.5cm x 25.5cm. It’s ane of ii paintings past times him inwards this year’s exhibition. Generally, Markey paints en plein air, but this sentiment is specially arresting because it is painted from within — within a auto interior, that is. This extra frame, consummate alongside the inevitable air freshener, exclusively adds to the picture’s charm as well as mystery." 

I similar the innovative agency of framing the sentiment of Falmouth as well as recognise that he is an creative someone who appeals to many judges - nonetheless I silent don't "get" why Markey's locomote appeals hence much to a greater extent than than some other artists who likewise pigment inwards watercolour.  I dare tell somebody volition explicate it to me ane day.  This, for me, sums upward his approach to his work

I arrive at endeavor to avoid the picturesque as well as await at the un-regarded yet mutual aspects of the earth 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 someone who I regard equally a superb watercolourist as well as landscape painter. His paintings are ever a joy to await at as well as many are ones on which I could happily gaze for many hours.

Newland has likewise won the Turner Watercolour Award (the "Turner Medal") inwards the past times as well as is the electrical flow Vice President of the Royal Watercolour Society.

"The Smith & Williamson Cityscape Prize gifts £1,500 to a painter who has done something superlative alongside the urban landscape. Paul Newland has lived as well as worked inwards the suburbs of northwest London, which render the inspiration for his prize-winning work. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 mix of watercolour as well as gouache, it is likewise a mishmash of observation as well as 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 as well as Turner Medal. You may notation some similarities alongside the practices of the painters who won the large coin prizes. The matter is Paul Newland brings his plein air sketches dorsum to the studio as well as plant them upward into bigger as well as fifty-fifty to a greater extent than interesting paintings - inwards watercolour.  I similar them - a lot.

Exhibition at the Mall Galleries

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

You tin run into all the locomote selected for the exhibition at the Mall Galleries betwixt 15th as well as 20th September 2014 - that's but 6 days to run into this of import show! Entry is costless as well as the exhibition is opened upward betwixt 10am as well as 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 larn ii major fine art competitions for ane visit!

More posts nigh 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 lastly 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 locomote past times of the correct paw column) to give away all the other weblog posts I've written nigh this competition.

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