RWS/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition

The RWS/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition is nationwide competition promoting the art of painting in water-based media.

It was launched in 1988 as the Kaupthing Singer and Friedlander / Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, through sponsorship by Kaupthing Bank and The Sunday Times. Kaupthing ceased to sponsor the prize after the bank was taken over.[1] It is now co-sponsored by the Royal Watercolour Society.[2]

The first prize winner was Tom Coates. Subsequent winners have included Trevor Stubley (1990),[3] Carl Randall (1998, the youngest ever 1st prize winner),[4] Stuart Pearson Wright (1999; third prize), Leslie Worth, and Carol Robertson.

The 2007 winner was Julia Farrer. In 2008, 2,000 works were submitted, with 100 exhibited at the Royal Watercolour Society's Bankside Gallery, and a £25,000 prize fund,[5] that year's winner being Jennifer McRae.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "RWS/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2010", Sdbmarketing.co.uk, Retrieved 9 January 2012
  2. ↑ "Royal Watercolour Society / Sunday Times Watercolour Competition", Banksidegallery.com. Retrieved 9 January 2012
  3. ↑ "Awards and Prizes", Trevorstubleygallery.co.uk. Retrieved 9 January 2012
  4. ↑ Carl Randall - The 1998 Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition. "Fresh Fields, New Faces", The Sunday Times, London, 6 September 1998, page 8
  5. ↑ "RWS/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition", Allinlondon.co.uk. Retrieved 9 January 2012
  6. ↑ "RWS/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition winner announced", Artshub.co.uk, 28 August 2008. Retrieved 9 January 2012