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RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2017

March 8, 2017

As you can see, I'm happy to be selected from among over 2,000 submissions for the RWS Contemporary Watercolour Exhibition.  Just as someone was taking my photo at the private view last week, they asked "Is that your red dot?" With my back to the painting, I hadn't seen the red dot going up.  

Landscript 1 fuses observed and remembered visual cues, with a mark-making and painting process that utilises the dots and dashes of lichen on tree trunks, patterns of falling leaves, a track at the left and the distant hillside at the top. It's a synthesis of elements seen quickly but repeatedly while I'm out running on Shotover Hill, moving alternately through deep shade and pools of light. I enjoy the ancient resonances - the woods were once once a haunt for highway men, once royal hunting forest, and the hillside shows Bronze Age, Iron age, and Roman usage.

Many thanks to the Royal Watercolour Society for the opportunity. The exhibition shows a wide range of approaches in water-based media, including contemporary observational and figurative work, and more abstract, graphic, and conceptual painting. The exhibition is on from 3rd - 15th March 2017, at Bankside Gallery, London.  

In Exhibitions, Contemporary painting, Abstract watercolour Tags 'Landscript' painting series, Landscript 1, Contemporary Watercolour Competition, Royal Watercolour Society
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Past posts

  • February 2019
    • Feb 1, 2019 Large-scale painting commission (part 2)
  • November 2018
    • Nov 13, 2018 Large-scale painting commission (part 1)
  • February 2018
    • Feb 28, 2018 'Haiku 02' selected for 2018 RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition
    • Feb 9, 2018 A midsummer day's painting? Book now for a contemporary watercolour art retreat in Derbyshire
  • December 2017
    • Dec 8, 2017 Better late than never: embracing online bookings
  • November 2017
    • Nov 22, 2017 Exhibition review: ILLUMINATION - Marius von Brasch & Howard Hardiman
    • Nov 2, 2017 What I want people in my art classes to know
  • April 2017
    • Apr 28, 2017 Today in the studio: the answer is pegboard
  • March 2017
    • Mar 8, 2017 RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2017
  • January 2017
    • Jan 11, 2017 Art classes in Oxford - self-doubt and the value of framing
    • Jan 3, 2017 Where does abstract painting come from? (part 2)
  • December 2016
    • Dec 7, 2016 Where does abstract painting come from? (part 1)
  • April 2016
    • Apr 30, 2016 Abstract painting as visual haiku?

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