Sunday Times Watercolour Competition - Call for Entries

Rewarding excellence and originality in contemporary watercolour painting

Deadline: 26 June 2017, 5pm.

Enter online: sundaytimeswatercolour.org

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.

Open to all UK-based artists, the competition offers a diverse and generous range of prizes including a First Prize of £10,000, the Jackson’s Young Artist Award worth £500 and the St Cuthberts Mill Prize for an outstanding work on paper.

Approximately one hundred works which are deemed to reflect the true breadth of the medium, will be selected 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 shortlisted works will be shown at the Mall Galleries, London from 18 - 24 September 2017, before going on tour to venues across the UK. The Winners will be announced in the Culture section of The Sunday Times.

Artists are invited to submit up to four works in any water-based medium by 26 June 2017, 5pm. Entry is £15 per work. For more information and to apply online, please visit: sundaytimeswatercolour.artopps.co.uk.

For further details please contact Parker Harris:

T. 01372 462190