The James Kiwi Watercolour Prize is a biennial art award that celebrates one of the most popular art forms. Come and view the selected entries from the leading prize for watercolour painting in the Illawarra.

2010 Judges:
David Van Nunen, President, Australian Watercolour Institute 2010
Malcolm Carver, Member of the Committee, Australian Watercolour 
Institute 2010
John Monteleone, Wollongong City Gallery, Program Director

2010 WINNER
Kurt Brereton We Are Here – Gazing
Judges comments: The artist demonstrates an innovative, contemporary, abstract approach to watercolour in his use of successive layerings of transparent grounds and repetitive mark-making to create a rhythmic pictorial pattern. In its intricacy and complexity, We Are Here – Gazing is exemplary of both the discipline and diversity of the medium. This painting illustrates the observation of mathematician and philosopher, Alfred North Whitehead, that ‘Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.’

HIGHLY COMMENDED
Jutta Chalk Speciossima
Judges comments: The outstanding technical proficiency of the artist is fully utilised here in both the rigorous rendering of her floral subject and the dazzling illusion of light emanating from within the painting towards the viewer.

HIGHLY COMMENDED Tony Hull Beach, Kiama
Judges comments: In their immediacy, spontaneity and vigour, this series of alla prima, plein air watercolour paintings are Impressionistic in spirit, capturing the transitory effects of light and local colour of the Kiama landscape.

COMMENDED
Lexi Watt Outback
Rita Burgess Windswept Hill
Lee Bethel Morning Light

Number of entries received and hung 96

Introduction to Watercolour 
with Sue Smalkowski
Learn the basic techniques of the soft and expressive medium of watercolour painting with step-by-step demonstrations on stretching paper, 'wet into wet' and 'wet into dry', and how to simplify your subject to create an atmospheric composition.
$70 per person / $60 Friends of Wollongong City Gallery. Cost includes all materials.
Sunday 15 August, 12 – 4pm.
For bookings and information phone 42287500

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