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Brand New!! Rws Contemporary Watercolour Contest 2013 - Exhibition Review

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This post is for all those who are thinking almost entering the annual opened upward competition run past times the Royal Watercolour Society in 2014.

I wasn't able to larn to the Bankside Gallery to encounter the RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2013 until the concluding day.  (a combination of the "the cough" which followed the influenza together with latterlly post viral fatigue!)  Hence yous can't encounter this exhibition equally it has already closed.
Bankside Gallery - RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2013
This perspective gives yous a feel of the size together with framing of some of the paintings
Note how the frames are by together with large neither broad nor obvious
However sight of what the exhibition looks similar volition hold upward helpful to those whose move was rejected this twelvemonth or those who are contemplating an entry adjacent year
The RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition is an annual contest opened upward to non-Members. It aims to encourage invention together with experimentation inwards watercolour painting, spanning order newspaper inwards watercolour, acrylic, gouache, pen & ink together with watercolour mixed media.
These are the lists of
The pdf files render listings of the images amongst title, lift of the creative someone together with details of size, medium together with price.  Note that the epitome on file is non the same equally the actual epitome equally some are heavily cropped.
Below yous volition find:
  • images of the exhibition together with prizewinners
  • observations on the exhibition, the prizewinners together with artwork I liked
Bankside - together with Tate Modern - on a Lord's Day (3 March 2013) is the video I took spell walking along Bankside, past times Tate Modern on my means to the gallery - to larn yous inwards the mood!
Prizewinners


(centre) Winsor & Newton Prize
Locksmith, sec Avenue, New York past times Charlotte Knox (Charlotte Knox)
watercolour, 65.4 x 65.4 cm
£5,000
St Cuthbert’s Mill Prize
Storm inwards Barbados II past times Christine Berrington
watercolour 17.5 x 12.5
£310
I'm non equally good sure of the procedure used for deciding who gets a prize.  One or 2 surprised me somewhat.

St Cuthbert’s Mill Prize - Christine Berrington Storm inwards Barbados II

Winsor & Newton Prize - Charlotte Knox Locksmith, sec Avenue, New York 

Winsor & Newton Runner upward Prize 1 - Paul Gadenne No. three Slip 

Winsor & Newton Runner upward Prize 2 - Aine Divine Matthew

Winsor & Newton Runner upward Prize three - Nigel Priddey RBSA Kent Coastal Landscape 
Winsor & Newton Runner upward Prize 3
Kent Coastal Landscape past times Nigel Priddey RBSA
watercolour, 51 x 33
£600
(Bottom left) Daler Rowney Prize
Valeriya Yanushevskaya Birthday Wishes £3,000

(Top right) Winsor & Newton Runner upward Prize 2
Aine Divine Matthew £750
Daler Rowney Prize - Valeriya Yanushevskaya Birthday Wishes

The Artist Prize - Alan Reed Jebel Akhdar, Sultanate of Oman (You tin watch him pigment on his website)

The Artist Prize 
'Jebel Akhdar, Oman'  by Alan Reed
watercolour, 99 x 81
£5,000
(top left) Royal Watercolour Society Award
Still Life inwards B by James Faure Walker 
acrylic, 76 x 56
£1,400
Royal Watercolour Society Award - James Faure Walker Still Life inwards B

David Gluck Memorial Award - Heather MacKinlay Dornoch Beach

Royal Watercolour Society Patrons Prize - Bridget Moore Night Café

Royal Watercolour Society Exhibitions - Stephanie Tuckwell Aber Series 2 No. 1

Heatherley’s School of Art Prize - Elaine Giles Portrait Study inwards Paynes Grey (see below for an imag)

The Exhibition
    RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2013
    The principal changes this twelvemonth were:
    • an emphasis on welcoming submissions from
      • practising artists
      • international artists - together with I sure enough saw evidence of this amongst to a greater extent than Chinese artists submitting move than I've seen before
    • impasto acrylic plant are non eligible - together with it was a existent pleasance to walk closed to an exhibition which was I would telephone telephone a "proper" watercolour exhibition.  There were a few acrylic plant but typically non ones which insisted they hold upward viewed equally acrylic equally opposed to an opaque paint.  I rather liked the novel together with imaginative approach Debbie Ayles takes to epitome structure projects - equally if they were Mondrian paintings!  I'd direct maintain given this 1 a prize. 
    Sherry Andrens Owen, were rather to a greater extent than creative amongst their role of newspaper (she produces watercolour collages inwards 3D)
    Summer Garden past times Sherry Andrens Owen
    watercolour together with handmade rice papers, 63.5 x 73.5 cm
    £840
    One of the things I really much similar almost this exhibition is that it e'er brings out the people who tin depict inwards pigment - typically using inks.  It is together with so squeamish to encounter calligraphic mark-making which is 1 of my especial passions (can yous approximate from the championship of this blog?).  I especially liked Max Naylor's drawing/p[ainting of Brockley inwards Indian Ink, I'd honey to encounter to a greater extent than people submitting move using coloured inks which I've sure enough seen inwards the past times although non this year.

    RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2013
    Amongst the Trees past times Kathryn Maple (top left) is done inwards watercolour amongst a pen

    I actually liked paintings past times Caroline Ali and Laura Bell.  I also liked Diana Green's gouache paintings of gardens - on the left inwards the photograph below. It also seemed to me that Justin Hawkes graded coloured washes was a perfect Summer 2012 Study!

    RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2013
    Left - 2 gouache paintings of gardens past times Diana Green
    I see this exhibition most years.  However, I direct maintain to tell this twelvemonth I was very surprised to encounter quite together with so many paintings which, to my mind, met the touchstone of a local fine art social club but non the normal standard set past times the RWS for this competition.  While some were exactly really ordinary, others left me quite open-jawed. It struck me peradventure the same thought had occurred to those who hung the exhibition!

    The fact that 1 or 2 of them also won prizes had me wondering what especial aspect of fine art was existence rewarded past times pick together with prizegiving.  The betoken is made inwards 2 respects:
    • relative to the other move inwards the exhibition - much of which was good
    • relative to previous years.
    I was also surprised past times the calibre of portraiture inwards the exhibition - I would sure enough direct maintain expected to encounter a improve pick of higher calibre plant than I saw - sure enough inwards terms of how to direct maintain flesh together with pilus color inwards watercolour.  (see for illustration 21st century watercolour - RWS 2008 epitome competition)
    A pick of portraiture together with paintings of figures
    top row centre: Heatherley’s School of Art Prize 
    Elaine Giles 'Portrait Study inwards Paynes Grey'
    ink together with pencil, 72 x 55
    £1,650.00
    In full general rather a lot of move has patently been done from photographs.  I don't hear people epitome from photos - but I would prefer non to hold upward able to tell quite together with so easily.  Essentially the divergence is whether the creative someone takes the photograph equally the starting betoken or but tries to re-create it.

    The 1 idea which I'm e'er left amongst at the halt of these exhibitions is that, equally a thing of routine, I encounter far superior move inwards watercolour inwards the exhibitions of the fine art societies which specialise inwards a especial champaign of written report area.  Where are the high cast watercolour plant inwards miniature, of botanical fine art together with of wildlife?  It's such a compassion that the calibre of technical skill, pattern together with composition together with mature artistry that I encounter elsewhere is non reflected inwards the plant typically chosen for the exhibitions past times the watercolour societies (ie this is non exactly an RWS issue).

    I've asked artists from these fine art societies inwards the past times why they don't set their move frontward together with the response I typically larn is that they don't intend the watercolour societies are interested inwards their work.

    It makes me wonder whether the watercolour societies mightiness hold upward interested inwards the first-class sales records achieved past times the fine art societies inwards these fields - through careful tillage of their very enthusiastic art collectors!

    It's a determination to ponder on - for both the artists together with fine art societies - especially given the sales tape of this exhibition (I counted xv sales inwards total).

    One to a greater extent than thing.

    I've oft been struck past times the alphabetical listings of artists - together with this is 1 which prompts comment.  I've non done the count silent in that place are 4 pages to the catalogue.
    • Page 1 Ali to Chavannes
    • Page 2 Chavannes to Hawkes
    • Page three Haworth to Moran
    • Page 4 Moran to Zeng
    It's non commons for surnames starting amongst letters inwards the start one-half of the alphabet to comprise nearly 80% of the plant exhibited.  Maybe adjacent twelvemonth start the pick procedure at the other halt of the alphabet?

    Past Exhibitions

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

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