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Sunday Times Watercolour Competition
The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition is a nationwide competition promoting the art of painting in water-based media in the United Kingdom. It was launched in 1988 as the Kaupthing Singer and Friedlander / Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, through sponsorship by Kaupthing Bank and The Sunday Times. Kaupthing ceased to sponsor the prize after the bank was taken over.[1] As of 2012, it is co-sponsored by the Royal Watercolour Society and so called the RWS/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition.[2] The first prize winner was Tom Coates. Subsequent winners have included Trevor Stubley (1990),[3] Carl Randall (1998, the youngest ever 1st prize winner),[4] Stuart Pearson Wright (1999; third prize), Leslie Worth, and Carol Robertson. The 2007 winner was Julia Farrer. In 2008, 2,000 works were submitted, with 100 exhibited at the Royal Watercolour Society's Bankside Gallery, and a £25,000 prize fund,[5] that year's winner being Jennifer McRae.[6] Kathryn Maple has won the competition on two occasions: once in 2014 and once in 2016. Her winning painting in 2014 was Fat Boy's Diner, which depicts a cafe near Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.[7] She used the £10,000 prize money to travel to India. The trip inspired her winning 2016 entry, Sandy Shoes. What Maple describes as its "part real, part imagined" scene is the product of a visit to the island of Vypin.[8] References
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