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Rws Contemporary Watercolour Contest 2013 - Exhibition Review

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This post is for all those who are thinking nearly 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 final day.  (a combination of the "the cough" which followed the influenza as well as latterlly post viral fatigue!)  Hence y'all can't encounter this exhibition every bit it has already closed.
Bankside Gallery - RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2013
This perspective gives y'all a feel of the size as well as framing of some of the paintings
Note how the frames are generally neither broad nor obvious
However sight of what the exhibition looks similar volition hold out helpful to those whose piece of job 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 conception as well as experimentation inward watercolour painting, spanning piece of job on newspaper inward watercolour, acrylic, gouache, pen & ink as well as watercolour mixed media.
These are the lists of
The pdf files furnish listings of the images amongst title, cite of the creative mortal as well as details of size, medium as well as price.  Note that the paradigm on file is non the same every bit the actual paradigm every bit some are heavily cropped.
Below y'all volition find:
  • images of the exhibition as well as prizewinners
  • observations on the exhibition, the prizewinners as well as artwork I liked
Bankside - as well as Tate Modern - on a Dominicus (3 March 2013) is the video I took spell walking along Bankside, past times Tate Modern on my agency to the gallery - to larn y'all inward 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 inward Barbados II past times Christine Berrington
watercolour 17.5 x 12.5
£310
I'm non likewise 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 inward Barbados II

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

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

Winsor & Newton Runner upward Prize 2 - Aine Divine Matthew

Winsor & Newton Runner upward Prize iii - 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 give the sack 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 inward B by James Faure Walker 
acrylic, 76 x 56
£1,400
Royal Watercolour Society Award - James Faure Walker Still Life inward 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 inward Paynes Grey (see below for an imag)

The Exhibition
    RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2013
    The master copy changes this twelvemonth were:
    • an emphasis on welcoming submissions from
      • practising artists
      • international artists - as well as I for sure saw show of this amongst to a greater extent than Chinese artists submitting piece of job than I've seen before
    • impasto acrylic industrial plant are non eligible - as well as it was a existent pleasance to walk unopen to an exhibition which was I would telephone telephone a "proper" watercolour exhibition.  There were a few acrylic industrial plant but typically non ones which insisted they hold out viewed every bit acrylic every bit opposed to an opaque paint.  I rather liked the novel as well as imaginative approach Debbie Ayles takes to icon structure projects - every bit if they were Mondrian paintings!  I'd cause got given this i a prize. 
    Sherry Andrens Owen, were rather to a greater extent than creative amongst their move of newspaper (she produces watercolour collages inward 3D)
    Summer Garden past times Sherry Andrens Owen
    watercolour as well as handmade rice papers, 63.5 x 73.5 cm
    £840
    One of the things I really much similar nearly this exhibition is that it e'er brings out the people who tin give the sack depict inward pigment - typically using inks.  It is then prissy to encounter calligraphic mark-making which is i of my exceptional passions (can y'all gauge from the championship of this blog?).  I peculiarly liked Max Naylor's drawing/p[ainting of Brockley inward Indian Ink, I'd honey to encounter to a greater extent than people submitting piece of job using coloured inks which I've for sure seen inward the past times although non this year.

    RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2013
    Amongst the Trees past times Kathryn Maple (top left) is done inward 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 inward 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 cause got to tell this twelvemonth I was very surprised to encounter quite then many paintings which, to my mind, met the criterion of a local fine art 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 perhaps the same persuasion had occurred to those who hung the exhibition!

    The fact that i or 2 of them also won prizes had me wondering what exceptional aspect of fine art was beingness rewarded past times alternative as well as prizegiving.  The signal is made inward 2 respects:
    • relative to the other piece of job inward the exhibition - much of which was good
    • relative to previous years.
    I was also surprised past times the calibre of portraiture inward the exhibition - I would for sure cause got expected to encounter a amend alternative of higher calibre industrial plant than I saw - for sure inward terms of how to conduct keep flesh as well as pilus color inward watercolour.  (see for example 21st century watercolour - RWS 2008 icon competition)
    A alternative of portraiture as well as paintings of figures
    top row centre: Heatherley’s School of Art Prize 
    Elaine Giles 'Portrait Study inward Paynes Grey'
    ink as well as pencil, 72 x 55
    £1,650.00
    In full general rather a lot of piece of job has evidently been done from photographs.  I don't hear people icon from photos - but I would prefer non to hold out able to tell quite then easily.  Essentially the departure is whether the creative mortal takes the photograph every bit the starting signal or only tries to re-create it.

    The i idea which I'm e'er left amongst at the goal of these exhibitions is that, every bit a affair of routine, I encounter far superior piece of job inward watercolour inward the exhibitions of the fine art societies which specialise inward a exceptional dependent area area.  Where are the high shape watercolour industrial plant inward miniature, of botanical fine art as well as of wildlife?  It's such a compassion that the calibre of technical skill, pattern as well as composition as well as mature artistry that I encounter elsewhere is non reflected inward the industrial 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 inward the past times why they don't lay their piece of job frontwards as well as the respond I typically larn is that they don't mean value the watercolour societies are interested inward their work.

    It makes me wonder whether the watercolour societies powerfulness hold out interested inward the splendid sales records achieved past times the fine art societies inward these fields - through careful tillage of their very enthusiastic art collectors!

    It's a decision to ponder on - for both the artists as well as fine art societies - peculiarly given the sales tape of this exhibition (I counted xv sales inward total).

    One to a greater extent than thing.

    I've oft been struck past times the alphabetical listings of artists - as well as this is i which prompts comment.  I've non done the count nevertheless at that topographic point are 4 pages to the catalogue.
    • Page 1 Ali to Chavannes
    • Page 2 Chavannes to Hawkes
    • Page iii Haworth to Moran
    • Page 4 Moran to Zeng
    It's non commons for surnames starting amongst letters inward the start one-half of the alphabet to comprise nearly 80% of the industrial plant exhibited.  Maybe adjacent twelvemonth start the alternative procedure at the other goal of the alphabet?

    Past Exhibitions

    You tin give the sack review my spider web log posts below nearly some of the previous exhibitions below. These include gallery shots of industrial plant inward the exhibition as well as links to the websites of prizewinning artists.

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