WORKERS REWARD: (left to right) Trish Patterson, Thea Fleming and Olwen Bower are presented with a thank you package from Rotary by judge Warwick Fuller. For all their efforts getting the show up and running. The ladies spend countless hours hanging up all the artworks during the week leading up to the Art Prize opening.
SINGLETON Art Prize attracted 550 entries this year and the results of the show and judge’s comments are as follows.
Traditional and overall prize: winner Graham Cox with Buchanan Moonrise- “exquisite delicacy and deft handling of a non forgiving medium but its abiding quality rests in the masterly expression of reflected afterglow, imbuing the atmosphere with a gentle quiet mood”; highly commended David Lake with In the Bylong Valley, Terry Benson with John-ex-president Maroubra Rotary.
Water colour prize: winner Brian Stratton with Edge of the Main River- Stratton’s “ability to find the rhythms and design in seeming randomness and then rendering it without flaw, it is to be marvelled at”; highly commended Warwick Webb with Wollombi-Wild River Country and the Empress Arrives.
Contemporary winner: Rebecca Rath’s Nature’s Palimpset - “well drawn landscape/geological survey”; highly commended: Madeleine Szymanski with heart of Eden, Yvonne Langshaw with Bottles.
Pencil, pen and ink prize: winner Linda Joyce with Desolation- “You’d have to look at Lloyd Rees to see better rendering of tone and draftsmanship, the modelling is superb”; highly commended: Sandra Hendy with Paris Rooftops and Barbara Holmes with Tremain’s flour mill.
Flowers prize: Elizabeth Krause with Nerine Splendour - “wonderful composition and control of the watercolour medium, so fresh and full of light with colour dominating the whole”; highly commended Rebecca Rath with Waratah, Colina Grant with Nicholi and Lillies.
Still Life prize: winner Linda Joyce with Pumpkin and Purple- “such old world charm and yet so modern, I can’t quite grasp what is special about it and that delights me, it is special”; highly commended: Doreen Shaw with Farmhouse Breeze, Julie Simmons with Just Peachy.
Miniature prize: winner Madeleine Szymanski with A Secret- “just avoiding sentimentality, the direct light and back light is beautifully and convincingly portrayed”; highly commended: Doreen Shaw with Vista, Debbie Daymond with Double Trouble.
Local prize: winner Col Shearer’s with Old Cattle stalls- “the very formal composition is sufficiently disturbed by the broken door and half seen objects in shadow to be interesting and it is so wonderfully and accurately rendered”; highly commended: Mai Okabe with Early in the afternoon, Fay Gray How much can a Koala bear?
Local 2: highly commended: Jordan Pegler Finch, Stephen Graham, Tea Bird, Alex Gallagher. Awesome jem in the window, Mark Morgan Man and his dog.
Youth 16-18 winner: Phoebe Prowse Interior; youth winner 12-15 Renae Hedges Thoth; youth winner 8-11 Brendan Kelly The Owl.