2011 Sunday Times Watercolour Competition - selected artists

The names of the artists - and the number of their works - selected for the 2011 Sunday Times Watercolour Competition exhibition at the Mall Galleries in September can be found below.

The competition has a first prize of £10,000,  In total, some £18,000 in prize money is awarded to artists who demonstrate a high level of skill and creativity in the opinion of the judging panel (see Sunday Times Watercolour Competition - Call for Entries).

the winner of the Smith and Williamson Cityscape Prize 2010
Toledo by Gordon McDowall
work exhibited in 2010 and artist selected again in 2011
(see last year's review for the story behind this one)

Below, on the left, is the list as published by Parker Harris yesterday and on the right are the links to websites that I've found to date.  If anybody spots a person they know and/or a website attribution which needs to be included/amended please let me know via a comment on this post.  Details about the exhibition can be found at the end of the post along with links to some of the previous posts on this blog about this exhibition.

[Update:  the comments contain a discussion about numbers.  67 artists have been selected.  Of these two artists have two works selected making a total of 69 works compared to the 100 works advertised in the call for entries prospectus)

• Ralph Adron: 507
• Thomas Allen: 256 - Thomas Allen's website
• Suzanne Balchin: 282 - Suzanne Balchin's website
• Paul Banning: 308 - Paul Banning RI RSMA AROI's website
• Robert Bates: 499 - Robert Bates webpage on Molesworth Gallery website
• Nicola Bealing: 51 - Nicola Bealing's webpage on Campden Gallery website
• Terence Bennett: 12
• Adrian Berg: 208 - Adrian Berg RA's website
• June Berry: 471, 473 - June Berry RWS's webpage on RWS site
• Varsha Bhatia: 391 - Varsha Bhatia's website
• Paul Birkbeck: 280 - Paul Birkbeck's webpage on Whittington Fine Art site
• Antonia Black: 143
• Christine Bruce: 656
• George Butler: 475
• John Cahill: 362
• Olga Cannon-Brookes: 330 - Olga Cannon-Brookes website
• Dawn Gabrielle Chandler: 106 - Dawn Gabrielle Chandler's webpage on Lake Artists website
• Frances Chapman: 617
• Philip Ciolina: 326 - Philip Ciolina's webpage on Thackeray gallery website
• John Cooke: 136
• Amanda Cooper: 445
• Laurence J Curtis: 638
• Christopher Dunn: 231 - Chris Dunn's blog - and his entry Cracked Matador which was selected for the 2011 exhibition (see below)

Cracked Matador by Chris Dunn - selected for the 2011 Exhibition

• Mark Elsmore: 64 - Mark Elsmore's webpage on the RBSA website
• David Firmstone: 33 - David Firmstone VPRWS MBE's website (previous winner)
• David Forster: 94 - David Forster's webpage on the Open Eye Gallery site
• Steven Garner: 191
• David Gleeson: 20 - David Gleeson's website
• Steven Alan Griffiths: 397 - Steven Alan Griffiths website
• Douglas Halliday: 393
• Falconer Houston: 526
• Peter Haslam-Fox: 11 - Peter Haslam Fox's website
• John Hunt: 687
• Martin Jacobs: 1
• Michael Johnson: 120 - Michael Johnson's website
• Tessa Shedley Jordan: 238 Tessa Shedley Jordan's webpage on Hunter Gallery website.  I've seen her work before and it is extremely impressive.  I'm only surprised she's not already a member of one of the two national watercolour societies.
• Peter Kelly: 240
• Janet Kenyon: 67 - Janet Kenyon's webpage on Burlington paintings site.  A previous winner of the Sunday Times Cityscape Prize

‘My distinctive style is achieved via a highly individual painting technique. Combining cold water dyes with wax resist to create bold statements of texture, mood and light.
Janet Kenyon

• Jill Leman: 602 - Jill Leman ARWS RBA's website
• Arthur Lockwood: 100 - Arthur Lockwood RBA RBSA ARWS's webpage on RSBA website
• Peter Luty: 70 - Peter Luty's website
• Gordon McDowall: 13 see image at the top of this post - he won last year's Cityscape Prize
• Robert Michell: 345  Robert Mitchell's webpage on Porthleven site
• Wladyslaw Mirecki: 2 - Wladyslaw's Mirecki's webpage at Chappell Galleries
• Chris Myers: 636 - Chris Myers website

Order Order by Marie Robinson - exhibited at the 2010 Sunday Times watercolour exhibition

• Gavin O’Keefe: 74
• Shanti Panchal: 198 - Shanti Panchal's website
• Jonathan Pitts: 163 - Jonathan Pitts website / Twitter account
• Christopher Powles: 341
• Harry Price: 112 - Harry Price RI's website
• Peter Quinn: 109 - Peter Quinn RWS's webpage on RWS website
• Dennis Roxby-Bott: 91  Dennis Roxby-Bott RWS's website
• James Rushton: 530 - James Rushton RWS's webpage on the RWS website
• Eileen Schaer: 643 - Eileen Schaer's website
• Graham Sendall: 42 - Graham Sendall's website
• Ian Sidaway: 201 - Ian Sidaway RI's website
• Brian Smith: 35
• Gerard Stamp: 222, 225 - Gerard Stamp's website
• Robin Storey: 102 - Robin Storey's website
• Simon Turvey: 190 - Simon Turvey SWA's webpage on the Mall Galleries site
• Deborah Walker: 93 - Deborah Walker RI's website
• John Wells: 23
• Annie Williams: 199 - Annie Williams RWS's webpage on RWS website
• Michael Williams: 359
• Winteringham, C: 75 - Claire Winteringham's website
• Robbie Wraith, R: 319 - Robbie Wrath RP's website
• Geoffrey Wynne: 81 - Geoffrey Wynne RI's webpage on Mall Galleries website

I've not got the list of full names as yet (but it's coming!) so I'm having a bit of difficulty finding their websites for you to see the standard of their work.  Consequently this post will be updated when I have the full information.

However what I have detected so far is that a large proportion of those selected are NOT members of the two national watercolour societies - the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour and the Royal Watercolour Society.  Now that of course could be because members did not enter the competition!  The list also includes watercolourists who belong to other art societies.

However the majority appear to be non-members of the major national art societies - following something of a trend in major art competitions in the UK

The 2011 Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition is held at the Mall Galleries between 12 - 18 September 2011.  The exhibition is open from 10am - 5pm daily and admission is free to all.

For more information about this and other art competitions see Art Competitions in the UK - Resources for Artists

Links to some of the previous posts on this blog about this competition

• MAKING A MARK: Sunday Times Watercolour Competition - Call for Entries 26 Mar 2011
• MAKING A MARK: Emma Haworth wins Sunday Times Watercolour 2010 13 Oct 2010
• MAKING A MARK: Review: Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2010 12 Nov 2010
• MAKING A MARK: Call for entries: Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 23 Apr 2010
• Call for entries - 2009 RWS/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 21 Apr 2009
• MAKING A MARK: RWS/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition - call for entries  20 May 2008
• MAKING A MARK: RWS/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2008 25 Aug 2008

PS  Yes folks - I'm back blogging about art and not Provence!  This is for a couple of days only as I'm not back properly to art blogging until next week.  Once I've got over three days of driving (I need a walk!) I've got to drive north to collect the cats from their holiday and give lots of lavender to my mother!

Champagne vineyards near Epernay, France

Champagne vineyards near Epernay, France, a photo by makingamark2 on Flickr.

These are the champagne vineyards approximately 100 feet to the right of where I'm sat right now just north of the town of Epernay which plays host to the HQ of some of the major champagne houses.

Vineyards seem to have been a bit of a theme of my stay in France. I'm just about to post a pastel of the one I looked at every morning to Four Go Painting in Provence - see http://paintingprovence.blogspot.com/
shortly.

Today I'm off to Calais via Boulogne and then it's the Eurotunnel train at 6pm and back through Kent to London

Sunflower

Sunflower, a photo by makingamark2 on Flickr.

Yesterday, while taking my satnav divert away from the Autoroute de Soleil - while the whole of France hit the road as the schools finished for the summer - I saw a number of delights travelling along the D roads.

First came the endless vineyards of the Rhone valley as I travelled up the D7 and D8.

Then the fields of sunflowers started. Huge fields completely filled with sunflowers in full bloom. I don't think I've ever seen them looking so fresh. It was like the impact of trees in fresh leaf after a long winter.

Later I had to get back on the autoroute again and discovered that if you love looking at sunflowers the fields south of Bourg-en-Bresse are full of them. Field after massive field of sunflowers - they were simply stunning - but no photos as I was driving!

The next photo is likely to be of the Cote d'Or where I'm going for lunch at Gevrey Chambertin.

Dentelles de Montmirail - sunset

Dentelles de Montmirail - sunset, a photo by makingamark2 on Flickr.

I started with a sunrise over Mont Ventoux - http://makingamark.blogspot.com/2011/06/sunrise-over-mont-ventoux.html - so I thought I'd make the photo posted on my last morning in Provence a sunset.

This is the sunset I enjoyed while sat eating my dinner at Le Mas de Vignes on Thursday night. The view is of the Dentelles de Montmirail. That's "Dentelles" as in lace not teeth!

You can find more images from Provence in two sets on Flickr of my photos uploaded to date - see http://www.flickr.com/photos/makingamark/sets/72157626821204323/ and my sketches - see http://www.flickr.com/photos/makingamark/sets/72157627095818732/ .

However there's a lot more to be uploaded when I get home!

Pantiles and roof stones in Provence

Pantiles and roof stones in Provence, a photo by makingamark2 on Flickr.

In Provence you frequently see very large stones (small rocks) sitting on top of the clay pantiles.

These help to weight the roof down. You have to experience the very fierce winds which can blow here to know why this seems a very sensible idea.

These particular pantiles are the ones I see on a neighbouring roof when I open my window every morning