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Sunday Times Watercolour Contest 2013 - Telephone Telephone For Entries

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The Call for Entries for the 26th twelvemonth of The Dominicus Times Watercolour Competition - the tiptop opened upwardly watercolour contest inwards the Great Britain - has been published.
the contest celebrates all plant produced inwards water-based mediums, whether abstract or figurative, contemporary or traditional.
This prestigious competition is i of the tiptop fine art competitions inwards the UK and is opened upwardly to both amateur too professional person artists who are invited to compete for prizes worth a total of £18,000.

Viewing the 2012 Dominicus Times Watercolour Exhibition 
at the Mall Galleries, September 2012
This post tells yous about:
  • who tin enter
  • what yous 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 come inwards the Dominicus Times Watercolour Competition
  • where yous tin run across the Exhibition inwards London too around the Great Britain .
I've listed my spider web log posts nearly this contest inwards the finally FIVE years at the goal 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 upwardly to 4 works.

Sunday Times Watercolour Competition Prizes

The prestige value of The Dominicus Times Watercolour Competition is inwards business office due to value of the tiptop prize prize available.  £10,000 goes to the individual who wins offset prize.

Prizes inwards 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 too a committee to create the encompass fine art for a Vintage Classic).

Who tin submit entries


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

What variety of function tin live submitted


The contest is opened upwardly to all paintings inwards a water-based medium.
  • The paintings entered should get got been:
    • carried out inwards the finally iii years and 
    • not previously exhibited. 
    • PLUS All selected function must live available until the goal of Jan 2014.
  • The maximum size of work, inwards its largest dimension, including frame, is 122 cm
  • Artists may submit up to 4 works. 
  • Copyright:  It's vital that artists practise non infringe the copyright of whatever other person.  Hence:
    • The function must live the sole too master copy function of the entrant; it must live their own original composition. 
    • The creative individual must ain the copyright of whatever plant entered into the competition. 
    • If selected for exhibition, the creative individual must concur for an icon of the function to live used for whatever publicity or marketing cloth relevant to the Dominicus Times Exhibition. 
Entries volition entirely 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 function for the Dominicus Times Watercolour Competition


What tin I submit? Artists tin submit upwardly to 4 plant via online entry
  • Use the Online Entry Form to consummate all required details too 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 sentiment of the 2012 Dominicus Times Watercolour Exhibition 
at the Mall Galleries, September 2012
Judges for 2013

Last twelvemonth I commented that if at that spot is a panel, I'd similar to run across to a greater extent than than i creative individual on it (last year's entirely had one). This twelvemonth at that spot are 2 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 too 2007 she was Assistant Curator of the Print Room at Windsor Castle. She has written too lectured on diverse aspects of British Art. Her publications include Watercolours too Drawings from the Collection of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (2005), andAmazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History inwards the Age of Discovery (2007) Dr. Owens read English linguistic communication at Oxford, followed past times a Master’s flat inwards fine art history at the Courtauld. Her Ph.D. (University of London, 2002) was on Aubrey Beardsley too satire.
Women inwards the Arts
Desmond Shawe-Taylor CVO, Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures; and
Hugh Pearman, critic & writer, The Dominicus Times.

How does the judging and selection procedure work?


this contest aims to celebrate too vantage excellence too originality inwards the genre of watercolour painting. The judges volition thence live looking for function that makes the most imaginative or otherwise impressive role of a H2O based medium inwards this respect.
The panel of judges volition initially review all entries from the digital submission process.

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

250 artists are too then invited to submit actual plant to London too regional collection points.  Thus if if i of your artworks arrive through the initial screening it has a 40% peril of existence selected for exhibition
  • Stage 1 - Initial Screening (Online ONLY): 
    • All artists come inwards their function online at the initial screening stage.  
    • The judges review all the watercolour paintings too and then choose 250 plant to larn frontward to Stage 2 - the terminal judging.
  • Stage 2 - Final Judging (Actual Painting): If invited (BY 24 June) artists must 
    • EITHER deliver artwork for terminal judging to the Federation of British Artists (FBA), 17 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5BD,  on Midweek 3 July 2013. betwixt 10 - 5pm. This is a link to a summary of Great Britain fine art couriers if the regional collection centre is non convenient for you
    • OR submit function via the approved couriers too 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 larn forms online? Yes. Entry details too 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 outcry upwardly the administrators if yous don't get got access to the Internet.

Names of the selected artists volition too live published on the Parker Harris website (and this spider web log - amongst links to their websites

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

How practise I larn an application cast 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 brusque 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 e-mail watercolour@parkerharris.co.uk. Facebook too Twitter. 

The Dominicus Times Watercolour Competition Exhibition


An exhibition of or so 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 nearly the Dominicus Times Watercolour Competition inwards 2008-2012

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