Rewarding excellence and originality in contemporary watercolour painting
18 – 23 September, Mall Galleries, London
Now in its 30th year, The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition is the largest and most prestigious prize for contemporary watercolour painting in the UK. Whether it be through abstract or figurative, contemporary or traditional, the competition aims to celebrate and redefine the beauty and diversity of watercolour and water-based media.
Eighty-seven works have been selected from a total of 1057 submissions by a panel of leading figures from the art world. The 2017 judging panel includes Sarah Long, Director of Long and Ryle Gallery; Kathryn Maple, artist and 2016 First Prize Winner; Louis Wise, critic and writer for The Sunday Times and Andrew Wilton, Visiting Research Fellow at Tate Britain. The Winners will be announced in the Culture section of the Sunday Times on Sunday 27th August.
The seventy-eight shortlisted artists are as follows:
| Alex Maczkowski | Alison Boult | Anastasia Shimshilashvili |
| Anne McAulay Edmond | Annie Williams | Camilla Dowse |
| Caroline Kent | Catherine Ducker | Chris Baker |
| Christopher Green | Claire Sparkes | Daphne Gradidge |
| David A Parfitt RI | David Brayne | David Greenwood |
| David Shuttleton | Debbie Ayles | Delia Cardnell |
| Dennis Roxby Bott | Doug Patterson | Elizabeth McCarten |
| Emma Haworth | Esme Dollow | Fay Brown |
| Frank Kiely | Gary Groucutt | Geoff Butterworth |
| Gertie Young | Greg Becker | Hannah Turner-Duffin |
| Hilary Rosen | Howard Flanagan | Ian Sidaway |
| Ingrid Greenfield | Irene Lafferty | Janet Kenyon |
| Janis Fry | John Hunt | Josh Crowe |
| Judith Logan | Karen Bowers | Kate Evans |
| Leo Davey | Lillias August | Louise de la Hey |
| Mark Elsmore | Mark Fielding | Martin Leman |
| Martin Spanyol | Max Boyla | Michael Williams |
| Michelle Cioccoloni | Patrick Shart | Paul Gadenne |
| Peter Quinn | Rachael Grimm | Rachel Ross |
| Rebecca Harper | Richard Fowler | Rika Newcombe |
| Robbie Wraith | Robert McKenzie | Robert Offord |
| Robin Storey | Roger Allen | Sally Lawson |
| Sarah Z Wimperis | Sophie Charalambous | Stephanie Tuckwell |
| Stephen Earl Rogers | Suman Kaur | Sylvia Alice Robertson |
| Teresa Lawler | Tom Caley | Varsha Bhatia |
| Victoria Dale | Vincent Spain | Ziling Wang
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The shortlisted works will be shown at Mall Galleries, London from 18 – 23 September 2017 before touring to a number of venues across the UK.
