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Sunday Times Watercolour Contest 2019 - Prizewinners & Exhibition

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Next calendar week the exhibition for the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2019 opens at the Mall Galleries - every bit practice ii other exhibitions (see the terminate of this post). This post is about:

Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2019
  • the prizewinners
  • selected artists
  • exhibition details

PLUS: Other Exhibitions this calendar week at the Mall Galleries (17 September 2019 to 22 September 2019)

Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2019 - Prizewinners


The prizewinners were announced inwards the Dominicus Times on 1 September 2019. You tin come across images as well as details of the creative individual as well as icon below

First Prize (£8,000):  Leo Davey

Leo Davey won the £8,000 First prize alongside a rattling odd as well as creative icon which looks rattling much every bit if it demonstrates neat science inwards the work of moisture inwards moisture as well as glazes.

Always actually prissy to come across the firstly prize inwards this contest beingness awarded to a medium which cannot live emulated yesteryear whatever other when the painter is skilled!

FIRST PRIZE:
Condensation yesteryear Leo Davey
© Leo Davey
The epitome of a modest fry inwards the shower, drawing lines inwards the glass, showcases both the artist’s clear science as well as a gustation for the off-kilter. The modest fry is left genderless on purpose; non everything inwards the composition is inwards sync. “It gives a feel of unease,” says the 41-year-old artist
Sunday Times Art Section 1 September 2019
Leo Davey lives as well as plant inwards his abode town of Minehead inwards West Somerset where he has both his studio as well as a gallery.

Leo studied at Falmouth College of Art inwards Cornwall. He now  where he has his studio/gallery. His subjects as well as styles as well as ways of icon vary a lot.
From the meticulous to the abstract, Leo refuses to settle on whatever exceptional genre of icon as well as continues to explore as well as prepare ways of seeing as well as defining his landscapes through his works. (his website bio)
He's been selected for The Dominicus Times Watercolour Competition inwards 2012, 13, xiv as well as 17 as well as won the competition's Smith as well as Williamson Cityscape prize inwards 2015. His function has also been selected for the exhibitions yesteryear the Royal West Academy, Royal Watercolour Society, as well as Royal Institute of Painters inwards Watercolour.

Second Prize (£3,000): Aidan Potts

The creative individual who won the mo prize is Aidan Potts. His Pavement Primrose is a rattling odd icon - rattling existent - but non hyperrealistic - icon of primrose growing on the border of a pavement - as well as yet its pattern makes it abstracted at the same time.   His London Snapdragon made it into the RWS Open Competition this year.

It reminds me of Michael Landy's suite of etchings called Nourishment (which I've seen at Tate Britain) - which are all drawings of weeds found on pavements.  Always prissy to come across artists observing what is inwards evidently sight from a novel perspective.

SECOND PRIZE:
Pavement Primrose yesteryear Aidan Potts
©  Aidan Potts
One twenty-four hr menses 3 years ago, Aidan Potts spotted the wild poppies that grow haphazardly around Aix-en-Provence. "They were hence total of life as well as vigour" says the 55 yr erstwhile Londoner "growing inwards the lost unlikely places - halfway upward a wall or on a traffic isle inwards the middle of a motorway."
He's straight off painted diverse flowers inwards diverse "defiant locations which y'all tin see on his website

His CV reveals he is rattling much an illustrator for the most part. he studied History of Art at University College; worked every bit an illustrator for the Times Educational Supplement every calendar week for xvi years - as well as also for the Independent as well as the Dominicus Times (one assumes he no longer plant for them!). In the belatedly 90s established a companionship to make daily animated cartoons for the spider web editions for the Guardian, the Economist, The Electronic Telegraph, MSN as well as The BBC. Subsequently lived inwards Madrid as well as Aix for a few years each. Plus he has an Alter Ego, Professor Potts.

Third Prize (£1,000) : Mark Elsmore


Iron Mighty by Mark Elsmore
©   Mark Elsmore

Mark Elsmore wins Dominicus Times Watercolour 2012.

Mark was born inwards the Potteries expanse of North Staffordshire into a household unit of measurement which had worked inwards the Pottery Industry for v generations. He is self-taught as well as has been a professional person creative individual for over ii decades.

He is a fellow member of the Wirral Society of Arts (2004) as well as was elected a fellow member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists inwards 2007. He was elected a Member of the Royal Institute of Painters inwards Water Colours (RI) inwards 2018 (and nigh fourth dimension too!) 


Pegasus Young Artist Prize (£500): Katherine Jackson

Drawing pupil Katherine Jackson has been awarded the Pegasus Young Artist Prize inwards the Dominicus Times Watercolour Competition 2019.  The prize comprises £250 cash addition £250 worth of fine art materials.

Self Portrait at Night by Katherine Jackson
©   Katherine Jackson
Katherine Jackson is nigh to start her tertiary yr of a BA Drawing course of educational activity at Falmouth University - as well as seems to take away maintain a depression profile on social media. Hence the next comes from a Falmouth University interview alongside her
"It's a lovely surprise to live chosen as well as to live role of the exhibition. I'm excited to come across all the other work. I'm inspired yesteryear the procedure of drawing as well as icon from observation, especially how looking closely tin enable y'all to uncovering foreign or odd qualities inwards everyday things.
"I've lately moved as well as for my submission I wanted to pigment myself inwards the room I've been using to brand function in. It has odd niggling doors which brand me experience outsized, as well as the walls seem to live a rattling different color depending on the fourth dimension of twenty-four hr menses - I'm e'er interested inwards how low-cal tin transform a space. I was drawn to pigment myself inwards the room because it was unfamiliar, as well as I wanted to motion-picture exhibit myself working there. Figures oft characteristic inwards my function as well as I oft uncovering that I'm drawn into looking at a motion-picture exhibit yesteryear returning a gaze from a drawn or painted face."

Is 2019 a provide to the agency it used to be?


I'm waiting for the exhibition this yr to live a turning point 

I wasn't impressed alongside the agency this contest has been going inwards the lastly ii years.
I'm non certain the prizewinners are the paintings I would take away maintain chosen - they didn't wow me inwards whatever agency - as well as I practice similar a prizewinner which rocks me on my heels!
...and as well as then this yr I didn't practice a Call for Entries post.  Too disillusioned yesteryear it. Plus the prize coin has been reduced compared to the past.

HOWEVER it seems to me that it's merely possible that comments made inwards the recent yesteryear past me as well as a issue of others nigh the decided drift inwards this contest take away maintain been recognised - as well as perchance been addressed inwards this year's choice of paintings - some of which tin live seen on the website
  • I'm seeing a issue of artists' names that I recognise 
  • the issue selected this yr has increased 
  • those images which take away maintain been published on the website propose that it's moving dorsum towards the agency it used to live eg much to a greater extent than 'proper' watercolour as well as much less acrylic.
I'll hold off to come across the exhibition on Mon to depict my proper conclusions

The judges were 3 artists as well as 2 Art Gallery Directors
  • Sophie Charalambous (artist as well as lastly year's winner) 
  • Simon Martin, Director of the Pallant House Gallery - which indicates it is a leading U.K. museum that stimulates novel ways of thinking nigh Modern British art.
  • Barbara Nicholls, Artist 
  • Helen Waters, Director of the Cristea Roberts Gallery - which leans strongly towards contemporary fine art of the abstracted variety
  • Louis Wise - Dominicus Times Critic (but of Arts as well as merely nigh everything but art!)

Exhibitions at...

The Dominicus Times Watercolour Competition Exhibition volition live shown at:
  • The Mall Galleries - Main Gallery - on The Mall inwards London.
  • Dates: 17 September 2019 to22 September 2019
  • Admission: Free
  • Trowbridge inwards Oct - Nov (2019
  • Guildford inwards Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
Maybe the organisers could stretch to allowing the exhibition to locomote due north hence it becomes rather less of a Southern England only exhibition?

Selected Artists


I recognise a lot of the names. I'll live trying to fit names to websites as well as profiles today (but volition release this post firstly - hence that volition involve updates)


I also Federal Reserve notation that the exhibition is much bigger than lastly year when only lxxx paintings were chosen - as well as I mean value I retrieve pointing out that it had stopped beingness the premier opened upward contest for watercolour since the opened upward entry for the annual exhibition yesteryear the Royal Institute of Painters inwards Water Colours drew bigger numbers! That's notwithstanding the illustration - 162 paintings yesteryear non-members were exhibited yesteryear the RI inwards 2019.

I'm non seeing whatever indication of the issue of entries - I wonder why....

KEY:

  • This year, the ONLY people who take away maintain links (in their name) are the artists who take away maintain their ain website. Profiles may incorporate bio details from other sites.
    • Those who larn a proper profile are those who know how to write nigh themselves inwards an accessible agency - using uncomplicated words as well as avoiding long sentences. If I demand to mean value for to a greater extent than than 10 seconds I motion on....
    • What's distressing for me is that those without a website likely won't ever know they got the chance to live profiled inwards this post.
    • Previous STWC tape inwards this contest indicated inwards bluish italics. (if obvious rapidly from their website only!)
    • The selected artists are listed below inwards alphabetical monastic enjoin yesteryear surname

The xc artists whose paintings take away maintain been selected for exhibition are:

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  • Sally Barton worked every bit an illustrator, visualiser as well as storyboard creative individual for over twenty-five years, originally based inwards London as well as straight off close Canterbury inwards Kent. Exhibited inwards London (Mall Galleries, Anise Gallery, Menier Gallery, Association of Illustrators) every bit good every bit nationally, icon inwards both watercolour as well as oils.
  • Diana Boanas - an accolade winning ,virtually self taught artist, returning to icon next a total fourth dimension teaching career based inwards Hull inwards the East Riding of Yorkshire ,England.
  • Yik Chung Boon - A painter/thinker alongside a Masters inwards Architecture - RIBA President's Bronze Medal 2015 - RIBA AHR Stephen Williams Scholar 2017
  • Michael Borozdin-Bidnell
  • Day Bowman - graduate of Chelsea School of Art as well as London University, is a painter whose function lies on the axis of figuration as well as abstraction. 
  • Julian Bray a commercial painter who specialises inwards making images inwards a broad make of styles. I enjoyed his entry lastly year
  • Judith Brown
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  • Steve Caldwell
  • Olga Cannon-Brookes - a "vedute artist" who primarily specialises inwards icon detailed architectural views: town scenes, exteriors as well as interiors of buildings.
  • Miss Christian
  • Jonathan Christie
  • Josephine Clouting
  • Lottie Cole - Foundation Course at Wimbledon Art School; MA grade inwards Art History from St Andrews University; worked for almost a decade at the London Library. Was inwards STW 2018.
  • Adrian Coleman - a British-born American painter living inwards London. Trained inwards fine art as well as architecture, he makes large-scale watercolors that address urban disjunction. 
  • Richard P Cook
  • Gary Cook -  lives as well as plant inwards Dorset. Paints trees as well as Antarctica. His function was awarded 'Best inwards Show' at the SGFA Draw eighteen exhibition. Has alongside the Royal Institute of Painters inwards Water Colour (RI), The Arborealists as well as the RWA inwards Bristol. He is The Ecologist's Arts Editor as well as a fellow member of the Society of Graphic Fine Arts. He graduated from Bournemouth inwards 1987 as well as was made a boyfriend of the academy inwards 1999. He is an environmental painter creating watercolour montages. His Twitter notes that he is an Arts Ed exSunday Times artist
  • Barry Cooper - exhibits at fine art fairs every bit good every bit inwards galleries
  • James Cowan - a painter as well as printmaker who plant by as well as large inwards the medium of oil, watercolour
    and etching. Studied at Chelsea School of Art; B.A.(Hons) 1st Class as well as an M.A. inwards Fine Art.
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  • Vicky Dale - born inwards Grimsby during a ability cut. 
Her function has gathered international indifference as well as comparisons alongside many neat as well as mediocre artists of her time. The Turner Prize, Young Artist Award as well as BP Portrait Award are merely some of the accolades Vicky has enjoyed reading about.
  • Leo Davey - First Prize Winner; selected inwards 2012, 13, xiv as well as 17; won the Smith as well as Williamson Cityscape prize inwards 2015.
  • Adam De Ville


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