THE SUNDAY TIMES WATERCOLOUR COMPETITION 2012
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THE SUNDAY TIMES
WATERCOLOUR COMPETITION 2012
The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition is celebrating its 25th year and its
continuing popularity with artists and the public alike. Due to the Olympics and
Jubilee activity around the Mall Galleries we decided to ask artists to enter online for
the first time. We were anxious to see the response from artists as well as the quality
of the digital images. However, we had a record submission from artists and the
judges were thrilled by the diversity and standard of the images entered. We would
like to thank all the artists who took the time and effort to enter and particularly
congratulate those who were successful.
The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition remains the most significant watercolour
prize in the UK and we are delighted that Smith & Williamson have, for the fourth
year running, generously supported the competition awarding their Cityscape Prize
and a tour of the exhibition to their regional offices. We are particularly delighted
that the exhibition will be shown at The Lightbox Gallery in Woking for the first time.
We would like to pay special thanks to Ann Monks and Nicola Purdue of Smith &
Williamson for their enthusiasm and continued commitment to their sponsorship
of the competition and to Suzanne Dean from Random House who are generously
sponsoring the Vintage Classics Prize for Cover Art.
Our particular thanks goes to our judges, who have given so much their valuable
time and expertise and Helen Hawkins of The Sunday Times for her guidance and
enthusiasm. And finally, we thank John Deston of The Mall Galleries for his tireless
support of The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition.
We hope you enjoy the exhibition.
Emma Parker and Penny Harris
PARKER HARRIS
SPONSORS
Smith & Williamson is an award-winning, leading provider of investment
management, accountancy, tax , corporate and financial advisory services to private
clients, corporates, professional practices and non-profit organisations. With 11
principal offices in the UK and Ireland, around 1,500 people and an international
capability in over 100 countries, our aim is to provide an innovative global service.
THE SUNDAY TIMES
The Sunday Times has been a loyal sponsor of the Watercolour Competition since its
inception 25 years ago.
and special thanks to
Vintage Classics is a prestigious publisher of the great authors of the past. As well
as publishing the likes of Austen, Brontë and Eliot, Vintage Classics publishes an
unrivalled list of twentieth century classics.
JUDGES
RICHARD GAULT Director, Redfern Gallery
Richard Gault is one of the Managing Directors of the Redfern Gallery. Today the
gallery represents over 20 contemporary artists and artists’ estates.
PENNY JOHNSON CBE Director, Government Art Collection
Penny Johnson has been the Director of the Government Art Collection since 1997.
HUGH PEARMAN Critic and writer, The Sunday Times
Hugh Pearman is a critic and writer for The Sunday Times and the Editor of RIBA
Journal.
CAROL ROBERTSON Artist
Carol Robertson won First Prize in the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition in
2005. Carol has work in several Public and Corporate collections.
DESMOND SHAWE-TAYLOR CVO Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures
Desmond Shawe-Taylor has been Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures since 2005. Prior
to this Desmond was the Director of Dulwich Picture Gallery.
FIRST PRIZE
Mark Elsmore
£10,000
The Potteries National Park
Mark Elsmore was born in the Potteries area of North Staffordshire. His family have
worked in the Pottery Industry for five generations. Self-taught, Mark has been
painting professionally for 18 years. Mark regularly exhibits nationally and has been
selected for the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition on twelve occasions.
‘The Potteries National Park is painted in the tradition of Edwardian photographic
postcards. Stoke-on-Trent used to be a city crammed with terraced houses and pottery
factories. Bottle kilns blackened the streets and darkened the skyline. Postcards at
the time sarcastically proclaimed: ‘Fresh air from the Potteries’; ‘Stoke soots me’; ‘A
Whiff from Staffs’. My painting updates the sarcasm and turns it around. Today the
Staffordshire Pottery Industry has declined. Bottle kilns are rare and many terraces
have gone, areas of derelict land have been reclaimed by nature. The Potteries as a
National Park requires a leap of the imagination, but the ‘buddleia city’ that is Stoke-
on-Trent today is a changing city. I’m not sure if economics and wasteland can ever
be paradise but the lungs of the city are finally getting their fresh air!’
Mark ElsmoreSECOND PRIZE
Shanti Panchal
£6,000
Cadence of the heart
Born in Mesar, India, Shanti Panchal moved to London for a British Council Scholarship
in 1978. He has exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions internationally,
most recently in the RWS Open Exhibition (2012), Bankside Gallery, London; Ruth
Borchard Self-Portrait Collection, Recent Acquisitions (2012), University Gallery,
Newcastle; The National Open Art Competition (2011), Minerva Theatre, Chichester;
and the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition (2011), Mall Galleries, London. His
work is held in public collections worldwide.
‘The people in my paintings gaze wide-eyed into space, or appear to reflect inward
to their own private thoughts, and whether in a room or outside, their surroundings
are free from distracting and unnecessary detail. The simplicity of their locations
suggests that they could be anywhere, in many places, both real and imagined. They
have, therefore, a timeless quality, which gives them universal appeal. The figures
tend not to make eye contact with one another, they look away, do not connect,
suggesting a subtle tension or sadness beneath the surface.’ Shanti PanchalSMITH & WILLIAMSON CITYSCAPE PRIZE
Chris Myers RI RBA
£1,500
Fragile (detail)
Born in London in 1949, Chris Myers studied at Maidstone College of Art graduating
with an honours degree in 1972. Since then he has followed a successful career as
a painter and illustrator using watercolour as a primary medium. Chris has travelled
widely in Europe and the United States as well as visiting Cuba, Australia, Russia,
Africa, and the Middle East. His journeys have provided inspiration and a good deal
of subject matter for his work. Music is another abiding passion which influences his
painting. Chris has been a member of the Royal Society of British Artists since 2006
and was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours in 2009
as well as being a regular exhibitor at various galleries in London and the South East.
‘We admired the artistic impression of London’s ever changing skyline juxtaposed
against the graphic reality of the birth of the Olympic village. The viewer is cleverly
drawn, via the railing and the overhead railway cables on the right of the picture,
across the skyline before coming to a halt at the stadium. Each time your eye follows
this path it picks out different details, finally resting on the construction worker who
appears confident that everything will be finished on time.’
Smith & WilliamsonVINTAGE CLASSICS PRIZE FOR COVER ART
Helen Lindon
£500
Drowned World 2
Helen Lindon is an artist and lecturer in London and based in Folkestone, Kent. She
has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in London and nationally.
‘Helen Lindon’s work instantly struck a chord with me in my search for an artist to
commission for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The texture, and sweep of her line
resonates with the foaming crashing waves. She has a strong artistic response to the
environment, and I look forward to seeing her response to the brief.’
Vintage ClassicsNo. Artist Title Price 1 Roger Allen Afon Glaslyn, Snowdon in cloud £1,800 2 Bob Armstrong Quarry Town £650 3 Sarah Armstrong- Jones Early Spring II £1,200 4 Sarah Armstrong- Jones Snowdrop, early Spring £1,200 5 Mary Anne Aytoun- Ellis Dawn £12,500 6 Raphael Barratt From where I stand £600 7 Varsha Bhatia Natural History Museum £1,700 8 Akash Bhatt I wasn’t there anymore £2,500 9 Akash Bhatt Fragments £2,200 10 George Blacklock Layers - music tondo £1,500 11 George Blacklock Inhumanities 1 £1,500 12 Edmond Brooks Beckman Genard £400 13 Clive Burnell Mutters Moor £675 14 Stephen Caldwell B.C. £1,000 15 David Cass Patches II £1,750 16 Roland Corbin King Kyle £1,200 17 Rod Courtman Divisions £300 18 Adam Dant Tabula Selenographica £18,000 19 Leo Davey Tyne Bridge £575 20 Leo Davey Spanish Ruin 3 £475 21 Catharine Davison Vanishing point (from Calton Hill) £1,850 22 Catharine Davison A Royal affair (from Salisbury Craggs) £1,850 23 Mark Elsmore Service! £1,250 24 Mark Elsmore The Potteries National Park £1,100 25 Michael Emmett Ice pool £2,750 26 Michael Emmett Looking through £4,250 27 Paul Emsley The Kings £25,000 28 Sheila Englert Apple blossom with Viola £600 29 James Faure Walker Study 2 £1,200 30 James Faure Walker Study 3 £1,200
31 David Firmstone RWS Two Persimmon trees £8,000 32 Nathan Ford Blake £3,000 33 Jenny Franklin Rift; Tectonic £2,000 34 Jenny Franklin Phoenix revisited £3,500 35 Paul Gadenne Slipway No. 3 £725 36 Maurice Gale George NFS 37 George Galitzine London Tube £1,500 38 Stephen Gibbs Competitive networking £849 39 Mathew Gibson Lying figures £950 40 David Paul Gleeson Time remembered: The British Museum £1,500 41 Christopher Green Bishopsgate £2,800 42 Ingrid Greenfield Washed ashore - Slapton Sands £1,250 43 Ingrid Greenfield Washed ashore - St Mawes £1,250 44 Mark Haddon Paul Farley NFS 45 Mark Haddon Simon Stephens NFS 46 Bill Henderson Auditorium: Black on yellow and blink £1,200 47 Bill Henderson Yellow black and jazz me £1,200 48 Kurt Jackson I'm down with the limpets £7,500 49 Kurt Jackson Pale evening, Atlantic, quiet Cornwall £7,500 50 Martin Jacobs Crug Glas, Abereiddy £2,900 51 Maggie James Peripheral Spaces 5 £600 52 James Judge Car and three cones £1,850 53 Janet Kenyon The Golden Mile, Blackpool £3,850 54 Zarina Keyani Untitled 2 £300 55 Roger Kite Swerve £1,400 56 Yolka Klos Autumn - Hanson ln £260 57 Keith Knight Vertical wrap £980 58 Ffiona Lewis Silver birch £950 59 Ffiona Lewis Riverbank, Silver birch II £600 60 Helen Lindon Drowned world 2 £1,500 61 Helen Lindon Drowned world 3 £1,500
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