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	Subject :Watercolour.. 28-09-2009 13:00:17
	rma Joined: 10-03-2008 14:33:06 Posts: 13 Location: Bromley   -2 Watercolour IP Logged
	Subject :Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour.. 28-09-2009 13:01:34
	rma Joined: 10-03-2008 14:33:06 Posts: 13 Location: Bromley   -2 I must have visited the exhibition for this competition eight times over the last ten years. As with most years the 2007 exhibition did not disappoint. Of course, all water-based media have been allowed for fifteen years or more. Particularly impressive is the quality of work on show and also the manifest courage of the two and a half thousand or so entrants in not only going to the considerable expense of submitting but allowing their work to be scrutinised by no fewer than five judges. This year 154 works were selected, that is rather less than 5% chance of success. The Mall Gallery ha been re-furbished and is now rather more welcoming than previously, for example, there are coffee and snack facilities, tables and chairs etc. Admission is not unreasonable and the catalogue is adequate. An improvement is the inclusion of a good number of thumbnail reproductions of the works on show but, unwisely or carelessly, some are duplicates. It was good to see that Wendy Murphy and Sue Rubira had been selected yet again (please see my postings in the Undiscovered Talent section of this foum. It was gratifying to know that Emma Haworth whom I first encountered and took an interest in during a Wimbledon open studio event and Peter Cavaciuti who's work I first saw at a Cambridge open studio event had both been selected. I am not particularly a fan of botanical art/illustration but Lizzie Saunders' Gunnera Manicata was astounding. It's £8,000 price tag reflected the amount of time/work invested in it and maybe the fact that Ms Saunders liked it too much to sell! It has been a good year for Ross Loveday, firstly selection for the RA Summer X and now the KSF/ST. I admired Robert Macdonald's exhuberant Taranaki Farm and, to a lesser extent Dan Llywelyn Hall's The Source. Sally Taylor's Smile was a wonderfully observed oriental face making very effective use of light and shade. There were at least two examples of Cathedral interiors but compared to the example exhibited by Paul Dmoch (see also Undiscovered Talent section) last year they were rather feeble. Paul Dmoch can't possibly have entered this year. I can thoroughly recommend this exhibition especially now that the exhibition for the Hunting Competition is no more. The KSF/ST shows the leading watercolourists annually and such competitions are THE way for an artist to establish a reputation and, thereby, gain gallery representation and increased sales at a higher value. ER. IP Logged
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