The Judge for this year's Spring Select Exhibition will be Amanda Hyatt. Amanda is a tonal impressionist Alla Prima watercolourist, making every brushstroke matter, who also paints in oils. She believes that light and atmosphere are the key essentials for her art and doesn’t rely on colour. She uses a reduced, more muted colour palette and makes tone ‘do all the work’ rather than letting ‘colour get all the glory’. She has been described as a ‘Master Artist’ (Director of the Dalian Art Gallery, China), one of the ‘top seven en plein air Masters’ (L’Art de L’Aquarelle) and 'is now considered to be one of the most exciting and ground-breaking watercolour artists in the world' (APV Films 2019). Read more about Amanda here.

See past winners here.

FIRST PRIZE WINNER

Mary Hyde VAS—'Low Tide Under the Footbridge', Oil

SECOND PRIZE WINNER

Gregory R Smith VAS FVAS—'Inner Circle of Friends' Oil

THIRD PRIZE WINNER

Des Parkin VAS—'Thinking Time', Oil

FIRST PRIZE WINNER SCULPTURE

Judith Leman FVAS—'Empty Saddles at Gunfire, World War One', Bronze

SECOND PRIZE WINNER SCULPTURE

Fred Toumayan VAS—'Balls and Circles', Wood

HIGHLY COMMENDED ARTWORKS

Chris White—'Spring Floods, Walwa', Oil

Angeline Bartholomeusz—'Beyond', Acrylic

Maria Radun—'Catch the Light and Shine', Oil on Canvas

Wendy Round—'More than a Pair', Oil

Ted Dansey VAS FVAS—'Serenity', Watercolour

Rachel Dettmann Smith VAS—'Miriam at 17 Months', Oil