Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours | 211th Exhibition Award Winners

Royal Institute of Painters of Water Colours 

Meet the award winners at the RI 211th Exhibition - congratulations to all!

• The Winsor & Newton Award

A prize of £3,000

Julie Green, High Summer: Dappled Shade, 32 x 32 cm (43 x 43 cm framed) 

• ​​​​​​The Winsor & Newton Product Prize

Nick Gear, Undercurrent (Lines of Thought), 45 x 45 cm (54 x 54 cm framed) 

• The James Fletcher-Watson RI Award & The Megan Fitzoliver Brush Award

David A Parfitt RI for Blue Summer, 36 x 43 cm (59 x 65 cm framed) & Dancing Leaves, 24 x 27 cm (47 x 48 cm framed)

• The Baohong Artists' Watercolour Paper Prize for a Member

Steven Allan Griffiths RI, The Knowledge of Silence, 53 x 60 cm (83 x 89 cm framed)

 

• The Baohong Artists' Watercolour Paper Prize for a Non-member

Darrell Warner, Crucifixion, 45 x 45 cm (60 x 60 cm framed)

"This series of avian watercolours came about as a result of the first lockdown and discovering deceased birds that had been struck by speeding vehicles through my home village in the rural Cotswolds. In a vain attempt to highlight man's effect on nature at a very local level I began to document those birds. Strangely gloomy now that much of our native birdlife is under threat from avian flu..." - Darrell Warner

 

• The Cass Art Prize

Sue Bridge, Swimmer, Land, Sea, 29 x 42 cm (32 x 45 cm framed)

"I am a cold swimmer, I feel a connection to the landscape. I am showing how rocks, body and water are interconnected and the link strengthened in this activity." - Sue Bridge

 

• The Chaoshan Watercolour Award

Harsh Agrawal, En Route, 56 x 38 cm (61 x 43 cm framed)

 

• The Dry Red Press Award

Sian Thomas, To The Point, 20 x 20 cm (33 x 33 cm framed)

 

• The Escoda Barcelona Award

Samuel Dominiguez, Andes with Plants, 45 x 61 cm (46 x 62 cm framed)

"This piece was inspired by my Chilean background, by using the Andes landscape with some native plants from South America, as well as including a 'plant support structure' used for gardening and horticulture." - Samuel Dominquez

 

• The Frank Herring Easel Award

Gary Cook RI, Antarctica: Cold but Warm, 0 x 78 cm (72 x 89 cm framed)

"A view of the becalmed bay near Port Lockroy, inspired by my trip to the frozen Antarctic Peninsula in 2017. A page from my sketchbook while I was there is included, as well as species I saw are written into the background of the painting. To me it felt so cold when I was sketching. I wore two pairs of gloves and took one off to scribble in fingerless cycling gloves, but could only manage a couple of minutes before I had to put both layers back on because of the cold. Sadly, and shamefully, the Peninsula, like its northern cousin the Arctic, is warming at a faster rate than the rest of our heating planet. It is 6 degrees warmer now compared to 1950." - Gary Cook RI

 

• The Anthony J Lester Art Critic Award

Karen Mai, Fruitful Thinking, 41 x 31 cm (51 x 41 cm framed)

 

 

• The Michael Harding Award

Brian Smith RI, Rendezvous, 34 x 52 cm (52 x 70 cm framed)

"This painting was inspired by a family reunion in a local restaurant which created a lovely informal atmosphere amongst the other diners whilst the service staff were in control of this busy weekend." - Brian Smith