As The Artist and Leisure Painter Open Art Competition (TALP) 2024 Call for Entries opens this month, we are pleased to feature the winners of the St Cuthberts Award from this year’s competition.TALP, in partnership with Patchings Art Centre, has been offering artists of all abilities the chance to earn recognition and prizes for their artwork for more than 25 years.
Each year they invite submissions of two-dimensional works in any media (including drawings, paintings, printmaking and digital artwork) to two categories - amateur painters in the Leisure Painter category, and from more experienced and professional artists in The Artist category.
Awards include the St Cuthberts Mill Awards worth £600 (three prizes of £200 worth of watercolour paper). Congratulations to the winners of St Cuthberts Mill Awards in The Artist Exhibition and the Leisure Painter exhibitions, as shown at Patchings Art Festival 2023.
The Artist Exhibition winners:
‘Porthmadog Quayside’ by Mark Buck
Mark paints watercolour in an energetic and loose style, mostly plein air and uses St Cuthberts Mill Millford 300gsm cold pressed watercolour paper. “Very pleased to say my watercolour Porthmadog Quayside won the St Cuthberts Award in the Artist section at TALP. Thank you so much. I will certainly put my prize to good use.”
‘River Thames, London’ by Sophie Penstone
“I am a watercolour artist from Cornwall who is always inspired by the Cornish landscape around me, but I’m also increasingly drawn to city views. I wanted to create a sense of receding distance in this painting so chose to paint the horizon as loosely as possible, extracting details as much as I could but including recognisable features towards the lower half of the painting. I painted this with only five colours to keep the tone harmonious throughout.”
The Leisure Painter exhibition:
‘Late Autumn Grasses’ by Pam Williams
“I’m a self-taught artist fascinated by watercolour painting a variety of subjects, mostly landscapes, to capture atmosphere, mood and light with economy of brushstrokes.”
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