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10 Best Paintings Inwards The Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition 2019

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These are the 10 paintings inwards the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2019 which impressed me. By which I mean
  • They caught my optic on my kickoff plough around the gallery - from a distance of some vi feet+. 
  • Then kept it on my mo become circular - when I'm looking to a greater extent than closely at the paintings. 
  • Then survived the cull every bit I went around for the 3rd fourth dimension to operate out my.....

10 Best Paintings - Sunday Times Watercolour 2019


These iii looked practiced together. The ii on the left made it into my top 10.

The official tilt inwards the Call for Entries for this contest was that
The judges volition live looking for operate that makes the most imaginative or otherwise impressive role of a water-based medium. (ArtOpps: Dominicus Times Watercolour 2019) 
My criteria for my best paintings has cypher to do alongside imagination.
I honour it hard to squall upward the final imaginative creative someone who lacked science inwards icon acquire inwards every bit an creative someone - alongside the possible exception of Tracey Emin.

The criteria used past times the Judges of the Dominicus Times Watercolour 2019 was, in my opinion, entirely the incorrect agency round. 

In my view:
  • impressive role of watercolour inwards a contest similar this MUST live an imperative in addition to an absolute - if y'all don't empathise the properties of watercolour, if y'all don't know how to role a brush in addition to if y'all don't know how to exploit watercolour properties to the max hence y'all don't acquire inwards on to my list! (and y'all shouldn't acquire inwards on to the walls of this exhibition either!)
  • innovative is good - I'm ever interested inwards seeing novel ways of working alongside watercolour. Back inwards 2010 when reviewing this exhibition I said
My recommendation to those thinking close putting inwards for this exhibition is to live really innovative in addition to display what watercolour tin do. I advise that all those people whose talents prevarication inwards the direction of the role of transparent glazing in addition to mixing colours which granulate should measurement upward in addition to require maintain a shot - because you've got a lot of infinite to brand an impact!
  • great icon must live 'an absolute given' - ie people who know how to role a brush in addition to create a blueprint / composition 
  • well presented must also count for something - why are paintings beingness hung which are frankly scruffy? How do paintings where the artists require maintain failed to proceed their newspaper gear upward clean (where left unpainted) acquire inwards on to the walls of this exhibition? 
In other words inwards my criteria "Imaginative" is for the fairies! By which I hateful it ranks fairly depression on my criteria for what makes a icon worth exhibiting.  I'm non maxim it doesn't require maintain a house inwards fine art - but it sure enough should non live the premier criteria for a watercolour competition!

My criteria is alone close impressive role of watercolour - in addition to making "a practiced picture". 

I've tried to operate out how to monastic enjoin them - in addition to decided the prizewinners were real definitely non going kickoff every bit you've seen them to a greater extent than than once.  In the cease I plumped for something akin to opposite alphabetic past times surname - alongside the prizewinners at the end.

That's because those alongside surnames inwards the mo one-half of the alphabet ever acquire a raw bargain when it comes to the display of paintings inwards an exhibition!

SIMPLE AND EFFECTIVE


The kickoff ii paintings demonstrate why sometimes something really uncomplicated tin require maintain a lot of appeal.

1. Christopher Wallbank - Frozen Heather


Frozen Heather by Christopher Wallbank
watercolour
£700

 This icon past times Chris Wallbank SWLA is real definitely i of my favourite paintings inwards this exhibition. I forthwith recognised the humpy splodges earlier I read the championship (on my mo plough arund the gallery). This is mostly alla prima watercolour painting. You position the brush inwards the pigment - in addition to create a shape - in addition to hence y'all acquire out it good lonely except for a few modest marks. It really takes quite a lot of science to pigment clumps of heather inwards perspective nether snowfall - in addition to to allow the pigment drain to create a deeper shadow!  Plus the fact he's painted it inwards majestic reminds us of the color when the heather is inwards blossom in addition to also the real odd shadow colours y'all tin acquire inwards snowfall inwards sure light.

Very uncomplicated in addition to real effective in addition to beautifully presented - alongside care. It's a icon I wouldn't require heed having hanging on my wall.

As an creative someone he's also had previous mentions past times me on this blog. I'm really rather pleased that I picked him without remembering his squall - although it is a chip embarrassing too! That's because I good squall upward talking to Chris close his wonderful drawing of a Loomery which was exhibited inwards 2015. I also gave his "The Urban Black Kites of Delhi" projection in addition to his drawing of the Macaques of Modnigar a characteristic inside my weblog post service close final year's annual exhibition of the Society of Wildlife Artists.

This is an creative someone who is skilled inwards using watercolour plein air. He's an creative someone who is going places in addition to I commend his operate to you!

Website: Chris Wallbank https://www.chriswallbank.com/

2. Sara Lee - Departure


Departure past times Sara Lee
Gouache in addition to Japanese woodcut
£1,150

Those of us who require maintain spent fourth dimension sketching around the streets inwards Cannareggio inwards Venice - in addition to ended upward on the Fondamente Nove volition know this view of the isle of the dead - of the Cimitero di San Michele on the isle of San Michel (where both Igor Stravinsky in addition to ezra Piound are buried) inwards the lagoon around Venice.

I'm a consummate sucker for artwork of places I know - especially when they don't vociferation it in addition to instead dot inwards a discrete agency for those who volition recognise.

The painting/print also has real refined in addition to gradated washes inwards the background - for the heaven in addition to the lagoon - inwards colours i powerfulness non await - unless you've non seen Venice inwards dissimilar seasons.

It's simply when I saw what I assume is the woodcut chemical ingredient that I knew precisely what the icon was close every bit the separation of colours is real discrete in addition to easily missed. The lighter color is the wall around the isle in addition to the darker color are the trees which grow around the cemetery.

I admire this i - in addition to would honey to know how it was created.

Again I am to a greater extent than than delighted to read her bio on her website - which I establish 5 seconds ago! I didn't know her operate at all earlier seeing this operate yesterday - but volition live looking out for it inwards future. She is real apparently a lady who is absorbed past times the coming together of the heaven in addition to the sea.
Sara Lee predominantly works alongside drawing, cinema in addition to print, including woodblock inwards the ukiyo-e tradition. Her do involves working from site-specific landscapes, followed past times extended studio-based work. Her images are a reply to the ephemeral nature of landscape in addition to inquiry our emotional in addition to physical human relationship to an evolving environment.
She exhibits widely in addition to her operate is held inwards populace in addition to private collections internationally. She has written for Tate in addition to has advised in addition to spoken on impress processes for diverse individuals in addition to institutions including The Art Fund, Dulwich Picture Gallery in addition to National Portrait Gallery.
Sara Lee trained alongside Master Printer Hugh Stoneman in addition to together they developed a photogravure do in addition to co-published, nether the imprint Print Centre Publications. Over many years she has worked closely on etching in addition to relief impress projects alongside Eileen Cooper RA, alongside whom she shares a impress studio infinite in addition to the imprint Blackbird Editions.
Born inwards Wales, she lives in addition to works inwards London. She studied Fine Art at Ravensbourne in addition to Postgraduate Printmaking at Central School.
Website: Sara Lee http://www.saraleeartist.co.uk/


WATERCOLOUR PROPERTIES

I similar to regard people exploiting what is possible alongside watercolour.
It's my belief that I ought to regard a lot to a greater extent than of this inwards this competition.

3. Linda Saul - Pendeen Clifftop


Pendeen clifftop past times Linda Saul
watercolour collage
£800
This icon past times Linda Saul is odd inwards to a greater extent than ways than one. I really similar it - non to the lowest degree because of its moody analogous palette of marine colours in addition to the granulation which emulates the rocks inside the cliffs.

I tin never ever empathise why I don't regard to a greater extent than artists exploiting the granulating properties of some pigments inwards watercolours. The effects which tin live achieved tin live quite spectacular- every bit inwards this painting

This icon is also odd inwards that it emplots collage. This twelvemonth at that spot are a lot of paintings employing collage - in addition to I am often tempted to think of collage every bit the refuge of the artists who has nevertheless to acquire how to pigment inwards watercolour (i.e. they cannot nevertheless command flows in addition to mixes!). However that's real definitely non the instance alongside this creative someone who has used collage to restate the buildings on the horizon.

Linda Saul enjoys creating themes for her paintings 
based on are the interaction of the elements alongside the built environment, the structural geometric forms of buildings, the passage of fourth dimension - decay, weathering, adaptation, repair or ruin.
also I honey people who require maintain spent hours in addition to hours developing their techniques inwards water-based media.
I am largely self taught - developing my ain techniques in addition to agency from countless hours experimenting alongside watercolour in addition to other water-based media. I require maintain also learnt a lot from attention icon workshops alongside many leading contemporary artists.
I am an exhibiting fellow member of the Reading Guild of Artists in addition to require maintain exhibited alongside the Royal Watercolour Society in addition to the Discerning Eye.
You tin regard to a greater extent than of her coastal paintings on her website https://www.lindasaul.co.uk/coastal.php 

4. Sandra Doyle - Cardinal Pole's White Fig Ficus Carica "White Marseilles"


Cardinal Pole’s White Fig Ficus carica ‘White Marseilles’ past times Sandra Doyle
watercolour on vellum
£900
Sandra Doyle exhibited this icon inwards the Annual Exhibition of the Society of Botanical Artists inwards June where it won a Certificate of Botanical Merit.

However my argue for choosing it is that this is i of the real few paintings inwards the exhibition which demonstrates how dry out brush operate inwards watercolour really works. If y'all acquire a magnifier out in addition to accept a aspect at the fig or other parts of the icon you'll regard how both musical note in addition to color require maintain been built upward using many layers of stippled in addition to hatching marks.

This is something I simply rarely regard inwards exhibitions of watercolour paintings - except if they are close botanical fine art when I regard it all the time!

Note the real fine stippled marks of watercolour pigment applied using a dry out brush to gear upward the colour
In the background y'all tin regard how a icon such every bit this powerfulness start out.
Sandra does non require maintain a website. However she does require maintain a weblog post service from final twelvemonth detailing how she approached the evolution of her icon of some other odd works life - the 10 Best Paintings inwards the Dominicus Times Watercolour Exhibition was born!

However this twelvemonth I liked ii of them a lot.

9. Leo Davey - Condensation 

WINNER OF THE LONDON WALL PARTNERS FIRST PRIZE
Condensation past times Leo Davey
watercolour
£4,500
I idea this a real worthy winner. It's odd in addition to ambiguous. It also uses watercolour pigment to select a real curious characteristic of H2O - condensation inwards a shower. I've seen people icon H2O droplets thousands of times (and real bored alongside them) but I'm trying real hard to squall upward the final fourth dimension I saw somebody pigment condensation - in addition to I can't. I gauge because it's non slow - in addition to nevertheless Leo davey has invented a really keen agency - completely inside our normal comprehension of what kids do - which illustrates perfectly how it works.

10. Mark Elsmore - Iron Mighty


THIRD PRIZEWINNER
Iron Mighty past times Mark Elsmore
watercolour in addition to gouache
£ £1,600
I honour this a real good idea through in addition to good painted composition. Mark Elsmore RI oft manages to pigment the completely ordinary in addition to mundane (he won alongside a icon of roofs inwards The Potteries - regard Mark Elsmore wins Dominicus Times Watercolour 2012)

It's also an instance of a icon which combines watercolour in addition to gouache - which is a real traditional things to do

It's interesting how ii of the 10 I've chosen are recent recruits to membership of the Royal Institute of Painters inwards Water Colours (the "RI") - although frankly Mark Elsmore should require maintain applied years ago!


Sunday Times Watercolour Competition: Previous Posts


2019
2018
2017 - - 87 paintings past times 78 artists were selected from 1,057 submissions. 
2017 

2016 - 75 paintings past times 66 artists were selected

2015 - ninety works past times eighty artists were selected

2014 - 93 works past times 73 artists from across the UK

2013

2012
2010
2009
2008




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