Outer Hebrides, 2018
Exhibitions
Sunday Times Watercolour Prize 2018
Publications
Making a Mark review Sunday Times Watercolour Prize 2018
The paintings I liked
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| My favourite bit of wall in the competition |
For the record my prizewinner would have been Jayne Stokes SSA's composite image of 121 small painting of the Outer Hebrides. Each is different; each is painting on a tiny piece of watercolour paper which has either been torn or burnt so the edges are rarely precise. Each tiny painting has been thought through carefully and painted well - and the overall collage of mini-landscape paintings of the Outer Hebridean islands has that wonderful combination of both being a record of a place at the same time as having an air of abstraction and pleasing patterns. One of those paintings you can gaze at from a distance and also stand right in front of and become absorbed in what you see. It is also undeniably a watercolour painting! I also highlighted her 'Wanderlust' work selected for the 2016 exhibition as being very pleasing - and you can see more of her painting collages on her website. I'd love to own one her works but they're tad expensive for me!
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