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Brand New!! Sunday Times Watercolour Contest 2013 - Telephone Telephone For Entries

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The Call for Entries for the 26th twelvemonth of The Lord's Day Times Watercolour Competition - the summit opened upwards watercolour contest inward the U.K. - has been published.
the contest celebrates all plant produced inward water-based mediums, whether abstract or figurative, contemporary or traditional.
This prestigious competition is ane of the summit fine art competitions inward the UK and is opened upwards to both amateur as well as professional person artists who are invited to compete for prizes worth a total of £18,000.

Viewing the 2012 Lord's Day Times Watercolour Exhibition 
at the Mall Galleries, September 2012
This post tells you lot about:
  • who tin enter
  • what you lot tin enter
  • the fourth dimension table
  • the exhibition
The deadline for submissions 5pm on the 10 June 2013.

Read on to uncovering out to a greater extent than about:
  • how to instruct into the Lord's Day Times Watercolour Competition
  • where you lot tin run across the Exhibition inward London as well as around the U.K. .
I've listed my weblog posts most this contest inward the lastly FIVE years at the halt of this post.  Click the exhibition reviews to run across the calibre of entries selected for previous exhibitions.

Entry for the 2013 contest is ONLINE.

Artists are invited to submit upwards to 4 works.

Sunday Times Watercolour Competition Prizes

The prestige value of The Lord's Day Times Watercolour Competition is inward business office due to value of the summit prize prize available.  £10,000 goes to the soul who wins starting fourth dimension prize.

Prizes inward 2013 include:
  • 1st Prize (£10,000),
  • 2nd Prize (£6,000),
  • the Smith & Williamson Cityscape Prize (£1,500), and
  • the Vintage Classics Prize for Cover Art (£500 as well as a committee to create the comprehend fine art for a Vintage Classic).

Who tin submit entries


  • The contest is opened upwards to all artists born or resident inward the UK. 
  • There are no historic menses limits for artists wishing to enter. 

What kind of run tin live submitted


The contest is opened upwards to all paintings inward a water-based medium.
  • The paintings entered should direct maintain been:
    • carried out inward the lastly 3 years and 
    • not previously exhibited. 
    • PLUS All selected run must live available until the halt of Jan 2014.
  • The maximum size of work, inward its largest dimension, including frame, is 122 cm
  • Artists may submit up to 4 works. 
  • Copyright:  It's vital that artists practice non infringe the copyright of whatever other person.  Hence:
    • The run must live the sole as well as master run of the entrant; it must live their own original composition. 
    • The creative soul must ain the copyright of whatever plant entered into the competition. 
    • If selected for exhibition, the creative soul must concur for an ikon of the run to live used for whatever publicity or marketing cloth relevant to the Lord's Day Times Exhibition. 
Entries volition solely live accepted:
  • with fully completed documentation 
  • only on the specified handing-in dates. 

How much does it cost?


  • Entry is £15 per work - payable at handing in 
  • A committee of 40% +VAT is deducted from the value of all sales 

How to submit run for the Lord's Day Times Watercolour Competition


What tin I submit? Artists tin submit upwards to 4 plant via online entry
  • Use the Online Entry Form to consummate all required details as well as to upload your images
  • File types accepted: JPG, TIFF, PNG (0.5MB max file size).
What's the deadline for entries?
  • The deadline for entries is 10 June 2013 past times 5pm.  
Another stance of the 2012 Lord's Day Times Watercolour Exhibition 
at the Mall Galleries, September 2012
Judges for 2013

Last twelvemonth I commented that if in that place is a panel, I'd similar to run across to a greater extent than than ane creative soul on it (last year's solely had one). This twelvemonth in that place are ii artists on the panel. :)

Only Hugh Pearman and Desmond Shawe-Taylor remain from the 2012 Judging Panel.

The 2013 judging panel is:
Julia Farrer, artist;
Danny Markey, artist; 
Dr Susan Owens, Curator of Painting, Victoria & Albert Museum;
Between 2002 as well as 2007 she was Assistant Curator of the Print Room at Windsor Castle. She has written as well as lectured on diverse aspects of British Art. Her publications include Watercolours as well as Drawings from the Collection of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (2005), andAmazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History inward the Age of Discovery (2007) Dr. Owens read English linguistic communication at Oxford, followed past times a Master’s grade inward fine art history at the Courtauld. Her Ph.D. (University of London, 2002) was on Aubrey Beardsley as well as satire.
Women inward the Arts
Desmond Shawe-Taylor CVO, Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures; and
Hugh Pearman, critic & writer, The Lord's Day Times.

How does the judging and selection procedure work?


this contest aims to celebrate as well as vantage excellence as well as originality inward the genre of watercolour painting. The judges volition hence live looking for run that makes the most imaginative or otherwise impressive purpose of a H2O based medium inward this respect.
The panel of judges volition initially review all entries from the digital submission process.

Artwork solely needs to live sent to London (by 3 July) if it makes it through the initial screening of online digital entries.   

250 artists are so invited to submit actual plant to London as well as regional collection points.  Thus if if ane of your artworks instruct inward through the initial screening it has a 40% gamble of existence selected for exhibition
  • Stage 1 - Initial Screening (Online ONLY): 
    • All artists instruct into their run online at the initial screening stage.  
    • The judges review all the watercolour paintings as well as so choose 250 plant to become forrard to Stage 2 - the lastly judging.
  • Stage 2 - Final Judging (Actual Painting): If invited (BY 24 June) artists must 
    • EITHER deliver artwork for lastly judging to the Federation of British Artists (FBA), 17 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5BD,  on Wed 3 July 2013. betwixt 10 - 5pm. This is a link to a summary of U.K. fine art couriers if the regional collection centre is non convenient for you
    • OR submit run via the approved couriers as well as Regional collection centres (by before deadlines).  
    • works non accepted for exhibition volition live available for collection from the FBA (rear of the Mall Galleries) on 10 July 2013, from 10 – 5pm.
Can I instruct forms online? Yes. Entry details as well as application forms are available online at Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition on the Parker Harris website

Will I live notified past times post? No. Artists volition live notified past times email, past times 24 June 2013, of the results of their application. You tin telephone weep upwards the administrators if you lot don't direct maintain access to the Internet.

Names of the selected artists volition likewise live published on the Parker Harris website (and this weblog - amongst links to their websites

Can I apply online? No - entry forms MUST live submitted amongst the run which needs to live manus delivered to ane of the regional venues. No entry shape - no submission.

How practice I instruct an application shape past times post? Send an SAE to: The Watercolour Competition, Parker Harris, PO Box 279, Esher, Surrey, KT10 8YZ.

KEY DATES 2013

  • 10 June - Deadline for online entries, past times 5pm
  • 24 June - Results of initial entry emailed to artists past times this date
  • 3 July - Shortlisted artists submit plant to FBA 
  • 5 July - Results of minute circular judging emailed to artists past times this date
  • 10 July - Unaccepted curt listed plant available for collection at FBA, 10am-5pm 
  • 16-21 September - Exhibition at Mall Galleries, The Mall, London SW1 10am-5pm
  • October 2013 – Jan 2014 - Exhibition tour

Further Information 

  • Full details of the Rules & Conditions of Entry tin live viewed online at www.parkerharris.co.uk.
  • Telephone the organisers Parker Harris on 01372 462190 or electronic mail watercolour@parkerharris.co.uk. Facebook as well as Twitter. 

The Lord's Day Times Watercolour Competition Exhibition


An exhibition of roughly 100 plant volition live held at the Mall Galleries, London SW1 from 16-21 September 2013, followed past times the Smith & Williamson tour to venues throughout the UK.


LINKS - Posts most the Lord's Day Times Watercolour Competition inward 2008-2012

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