The Sunday Times Watercolour Contest 2014 - Telephone Call Upward For Entries

The Call for Entries for 27th twelvemonth of the prestigious Sunday Times Watercolour Competition was published today. Artists are invited to submit upwardly to 4 works.

The Lord's Day Times Watercolour Competition provides an chance for artists across the Britain to redefine, celebrate as well as vantage excellence as well as originality inwards watercolour as well as water-based media.  

This post tells yous about:

• who tin give the sack enter
• what yous tin give the sack enter
• the fourth dimension table
• the exhibition

The deadline for submissions 5pm, Monday ii June 2014. Entry for the 2014 contest is ONLINE.

Lord's Day Times Watercolour 2014 Competition Prizes

This is i of the happen fine art competitions inwards the UK with 

• First Prize - £10,000
• Second Prize - £6,000
• Smith & Williamson Cityscape Prize - £1,500
• Vintage Classics Prize for Cover Art - £500 + win a committee to create the embrace fine art for a Vintage Classic

The Lord's Day Times Watercolour Competition 2013 Prizewinners

Read on to uncovering out to a greater extent than about:

• how to teach into the Lord's Day Times Watercolour Competition
• where yous tin give the sack encounter the Exhibition inwards London as well as around the Britain .

Who tin give the sack submit entries

• The contest is opened upwardly to all artists currently resident inwards the UK.
• There are no historic catamenia limits for artists wishing to enter. 

What variety of operate tin give the sack move submitted

The judges volition move looking for operate that makes the most imaginative or otherwise impressive purpose of a H2O based medium.

• The contest is opened upwardly to all paintings inwards a water-based medium.
• The paintings entered should create got been:
• carried out inwards the in conclusion 3 years and
• not previously exhibited.
• PLUS All selected operate must move available until the halt of Jan 2015.

• The maximum size of work, inwards its largest dimension, including frame, is122 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 operate must move the sole as well as master copy operate of the entrant; it must move their own master copy composition.
• The creative someone must ain the copyright of whatever plant entered into the competition.
• If selected for exhibition, the creative someone must treat an picture of the operate to move used for whatever publicity or marketing fabric relevant to the Lord's Day Times Exhibition.
• Entries volition exclusively move accepted:
• with fully completed documentation 
• only on the specified handing-in dates. 

Part of The Lord's Day Times Watercolour Competition 2013 Exhibition

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 operate for the Lord's Day Times Watercolour Competition

Initial entry is online, followed past times a minute circular viewing of shortlisted plant earlier in conclusion selection.

This is the Help as well as FAQs page

What tin give the sack I submit?

Artists tin give the sack submit upwardly to 4 plant via online entry. Full details tin give the sack move viewed online at www.parkerharris.co.uk.

• Use the Online Entry Form to consummate all required details as well as to upload your images
• Resolution: 300 dpi
• File size: a maximum file size of 500KB
• File types accepted: JPG, TIFF, PNG (0.5MB max file size).
• Each picture file must move named alongside your surname, start get upwardly as well as brief championship e.g. SmithJohn_Title.jpeg.

What's the deadline for entries?

• The closing deadline for online submission is 5pm, Monday ii June 2014.

The telephone commutation dates are

• 2 June - Deadline for online entries, past times 5pm
• 13 June - Results of initial entry emailed to artists past times this date
• 18 June - Shortlisted artists submit plant to FBA
• 20 June - Results of minute circular judging emailed to artists past times this date
• 24 June - Unaccepted curt listed plant available for collection at FBA, 10am-5pm
• 15-20 September - Exhibition at Mall Galleries, The Mall, London SW1 10am-5pm
• October 2014 – Jan 2015 - Exhibition tour

Selection process

The 2014 judges are:

• Sarah Armstrong Jones Artist
• Desmond Shawe-Taylor CVO Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures
• Louis Wise Critic & Writer, The Lord's Day Times

As is becoming the norm for fine art competitions these days, the judges volition initially review entries through a digital submission process. 

After that, some 250 artists volition move shortlisted as well as invited to deliver their actual plant for in conclusion judging.  From this shortlist around 100 paintings volition move selected to hang inwards the exhibition.

The 2014 Lord's Day Times Watercolour Exhibition & Tour

Approximately 100 plant volition move exhibited at the Mall Galleries, London betwixt 15th - 20th September 2014.

The Mall Galleries volition likewise furnish a venue for a serial of FREE workshops as well as demonstrations past times past as well as electrical flow exhibitors during the exhibition.

The exhibition volition as well as then tour around the offices of Smith & Williamson throughout the Britain from September 2014 to Jan 2015.

2013 Lord's Day Times Watercolour Competition

For those wanting to encounter what the contest was similar in conclusion 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

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