Ottawa Watercolour Society 62^nd Juried Show

Shenkman Trinity Gallery Salon B,

August 26^th - September 28^th , 2010

Open Exhibition

An Exhibition of Watermedia on Paper and Yupo

Important Dates:

Digital Submissions by July 3^rd,2010

For Digital Submission the registration form with a cheque enclosed should be mailed no later than: July 03rd, 2010

Original Works, Registration time & location: July 10^th, 2010,9:00 am – 10 :00 am Ottawa Mennonite Church, 1830 Kilborn Ave
Pick-up paintings 1:00 – 2:00pm, July 10th

Accepted Paintings will need to be brought to the Shenkman Gallery for hanging on August 25^th between 11:30 and noon,
Picked up on September 29^th between 10am and 11:00 am.
Vernissage to be held on August 29^th 2-4pm

Conditions:

The registration fee of $25 must accompany the registration form (Click to download). (Make cheques out to the Ottawa Watercolour Society).

Up to three paintings may be submitted. There are no size restrictions.

Digital Submissions Requirements:

Submit jpg images of your art work.
File size no larger than 300dpi, 4x6.
The name of the image must be FirstName_LastName_Number.jpg For example: Victor_Pavlov_1.jpg
The subject of your Email must be: 62 OWS - Submission
Digital submissions to be sent by email to: digit_submission@owswatercolour.com

Note: For digital submissions the registration form must be completed and mailed with cheque enclosed

to : 4 Beaver Ridge, Ottawa, K2E 6C7

Deadline for digital submissions:

The images should be mailed to digit_submission@owswatercolour.com no later than: July 03rd, 2010
and the registration form with a cheque enclosed should be mailed no later than: July 03rd, 2010

Additional Requirements

Watermedia is defined as anything that is dissolvable in water excluding acrylics and ink.

Only painings on Paper or Yupo.

All paintings are to be framed under glass. The standard rules for framing will apply. Only white or off-white mats.

Only original work and only works that have not been previously accepted into an OWS exhibition.

You must be a member of OWS to register. Please write in your membership number (found on your membership card) at the top of the registration form. Or complete a membership application and a cheque for $30 with the entry form.

The OWS takes no responsibility for theft or damage of any paintings. Artists are responsible for obtaining their own insurance. All paintings should be clearly marked with title, artist’s name, price, and size of piece.

All paintings are to be for sale.

A 15% commission will be charged by Shenkman Gallery, and a 10% commission by the OWS on all sales.

Accepted Paintings will need to be brought

to the Shenkman Gallery for hanging on August 25^th between 11:30 and noon,

and picked up on September 29^th between 10am and 11:00 am.

Awards:

There will be a Wallacks Award of a Windsor Newton travel set

and Series 7 Sable watercolour brush,

as well as the usual Jurors Awards,

Presidents Award, and Morton Baslaw Award.

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61st Ottawa Watercolour Exhibition

to be held at

St Brigid's Centre for the Arts and Humanities from April 10th to the 18th, 2010

Address: 314 St. Patrick's Street, Ottawa

Gallery Working Hours:

Monday - closed

Tuesday - closed

Wednesday - closed

Thursday - 1:00PM to 8:00PM

(Note that On Thursday April 15th the gallery will be open from 1:00PM to 5:30PM)

Friday - 1:00PM to 8:00PM

Saturday - 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM,

Sunday - 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM

A Vernissage will be held on Sunday April 11th from 2:00 to 4:00 pm.

For this show OWS is excited to offer the following prizes:

One set Winsor & Newton Series 7 Kolinsy Sable Brushes. Originally designed in 1877 for Queen Victoria, these brushes feature only the highest quality materials hand crafted in England. Long established world reputation for excellence. Pure Kolinsky Sable Hairs with elegantly balanced black ebony handles.
One Winsor & Newton Artists' Watercolour Field Box - these are available as a special order item only and are not available in the store.

The prizes are courtesy of Wallack's Art Supplies

Click to download the Entry Form for this show in PDF format

This will be a themed exhibition "Renewal in Spring" and open to transparent watercolour on paper only.

On April 8th:

Drop off is between 11:30 am to 12:30 pm,

Jury between1:15 pm and 3:30 pm,

Pick up between 4:00 pm and 5:00 pm .

All paintings are to be framed and under glass, matted with white or off-white.

We have approached Wallacks and DeSerres about contributing prizes and we will have a prize of watercolour paper, from St Cuthbert's Mill.

Notes from the OWS President:

I encourage you all to submit your artwork. We need to make Ottawa sit up and take notice of our watercolours. It is up to each of us to promote art through-out the capital and to make a mark for the media of watercolours. Next year there will be a symposium on watercolours and the whole capital will be flooded with watercolours. You will want to be firmly embedded in the watercolour community before this event comes.

Now is the time to get painting for this spring show at St. Brigid’s.

What is the jury looking for?

Some of you, like me, have been discouraged by having paintings rejected by past juries and some of you I know have finally made it into enough shows to apply for Fellowship status only to have been rejected by the fellowship jury. I have decided to find out exactly what it is our juries are looking for. The jury process for the OWS show is one of the most fair that I know of, the jurors do not discuss the paintings with each other and do not know what rating the other jurors are giving a painting. The jurors` decisions are final and jurors are not required to give explanations for the rejection or acceptance of works.

I cannot think of any way it could be improved. So with the help of the members of the executive we have come up with a list of things the jury may be looking for. This was published in the OWS newsletter in March 1997. It was originally published in the Nov. 1997 issue of the American Artist.

1. Does the painting exhibit good drawing skills?

2. Do the shapes, patterns, values and colors create a good design?

3. Is it creative use of the medium?

4. Does the texture of the painting enhance the subject matter?

5. Does the texture of the support enhance the subject matter?

6. Is there a variety of textures?

7. Are the edges handled well?

8. Are the darks, lights and shadows placed effectively?

9. Does the painting contain good atmospheric quality and convey a sense of time and place?

10. Has the artist demonstrated his or her knowledge of the subject?

11. Has the artist revealed parts of the subject that may be unknown to the viewer?

12. Does the painting have a mood?

13. Did the artist feel emotional about the subject matter and does it come across in the work?

14. Is the work well presented in terms of matting and framing?

15. Is the painting aesthetically pleasing?

Hopefully this will give you some guidelines in choosing which paintings you will submit for our spring show. Mary Nun has sent me a great list that is probably more current than this one and it will be published in the next newsletter.

Happy Painting!

Brenda

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Previous Exhibitions

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St Brigid's Center for the Arts and Humanities

October 2nd to October 11th, 2009

Ottawa Watercolour Society

60th Juried Exhibition

An open exhibition of experimental and traditional transparent watercolours on paper, Yupo, or canvas.

Address: 314 St. Patrick's Street, Ottawa

Cumberland Gallery

February 19 to March 24, 2009

Ottawa Watercolour Society:

"Water by Water" – 59th Juried Exhibition of Watercolours

Address: Orléans Client Service Centre
255 Centrum Boulevard, 2^nd Floor
Orléans, ON 613-580-2424 ext. 29288

Hours:
Monday to Friday: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Weekends: various hours.

Call 613-580-2424, ext. 29288 for exact times.

Also open during scheduled performances at Orléans Theatre.

The reception for this exhibition is to be held on February 22^nd, 2009 between 2:00 and 4:00 pm.

A juried collection of new works in watercolour exploring the translucency, the majesty, and the simple beauty of reflections, patterns, and shapes, of water in nature as well as in the everyday world that surrounds us

NOTE: For all members of the OWS

I would like to update our current badly out of date “Bio” book, so that we can use it at our future exhibitions. Many clients are interested in knowing more about the artists exhibited and this would certainly assist in promoting your work. Please send an updated bio to me by email to barlowjane@gmail.com or by regular mail to: 4 Beaver Ridge, Ottawa, Ontario, K2E 6C7. A photo of you would be an asset.

The accepted paintings will need to be brought back to the Gallery on the day of the hanging.

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"Night Vision"

58th Juried Show
July 3-20, 2008
A Transparent Watercolour exhibition to be held at the

Cube Gallery, 7 Hamilton Ave N, Ottawa

Award Winners for 58thJuried Exhibition were:

Erika Déruaz - "Manhattan at Night" Wallacks/Windsor Newton Award
Adriana Saba - "Open 24 Hours" Marina Kun Award
Pam McKinnon - "The Shape of Light" Morton Baslaw Award
Wilma Pinkus - "Bedtime Reflections" Doris McCarthy Composition Award
Anne Remer Thompson - "Jazz Notes in Moonglow" Juror's Award

Pics from the show

Paul Gessel with the Award wining painting "Manhattan at Night"

Anne Remmer Thomson

The Jurors: Sh.Thomson, B.Oickle, D.Jones, P. Gessel, Don Monet

Charlie with the band

Pam McKinnon

Anne and Renate with their paintings

Marcia handing award to Pam McKinnon

Don Monet, Jane Barlow, Pat Spratt, Jane Anderson

Marcia handing award to Adriana Saba

Erika Déruaz - "Manhattan at Night"

Ottawa Watercolour Society's 30th Anniversary

57th Juried Show
July 4th-29th, 2007
A Transparent Watercolour exhibition to be held at the

Cube Gallery, 7 Hamilton Ave N, Ottawa

Award Winners for 57thJuried Exhibition were:

Marcia Lea "Choices" - The Ottawa Citizen Award
Pam McKinnnon "First light" - Wallacks Award
Ann Barkley "Vase" - Patron of the Arts Award
Sonia Tarantour Pearl "Echoes,The Third" - Marina Kun Shoulder Rest Award
Adriana Saba "Little Zorro" - Wallacks Award
Renate Hulley "Arctic, One Early Morning" - Royal Bank Award
Catherine Edmonds "Foundation" - Telco Award

Award Winners for 56thJuried Exhibition were:

Shernya Vininsky for HERD OF HORSES
Dawn Code for LOVE LETTERS
Margot Boucher for THE IRIS GARDEN
Leonard Gerbrand for ABOVE MUTINAYU
Lou Charton for SAVE HARBOUR
President's Award; Brian Seed for GREW OWL
Morton Balsa Award:Linda Banfalvi for LAST LIGHT

Award Winners for 55thJuried Exhibition were:

Alan Bain for FOG ON LOOKOVER
Jou Charton for IS THAT ALL THERE IS?
Marg.Grothier for MOON ROCKS
B.Frank Oord for OLIVER MODEL 70
Anne Remmer Thompson for HOLDING LIGHT
Presidents Award: Alan Bain for AFTER THE STORM
Morton Baslaw Award: Brian Seed for JUST CHARLIE

Public choice Awards were :

Brian Seed for Just Charlie,
Lou Charton for Is that All There Is?
Marg. Grotier for Moon Rocks

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OWS Juried Exhibitions -

Conditions and Instructions

The Juried Exhibitions of the Society are subject to the following conditions although modifications in detail may be required to suit individual cases.

It is the responsibility of the Executive to inform the members in good time of the items included under the heading of instructions and these will very with each exhibition.

CONDITIONS

1. The juried Exhibitions of the Society will be juried by a panel of Jurors appointed by the Executives. The Jury will consist of 4 or 5 Fellows of the Society and one Affiliate or Associate member. Fellows and Associates will be asked to serve in rotation.

2. When an Exhibition is to be held in a commercial gallery, the gallery will be invited to nominate one additional Juror as their representative.

3.Jouror will be asked to select from the paintings submitted those which in their opinion are of a high enough standard to warrant their acceptance as works representative of the Society. The number of works accepted may be limited by the hanging capacity of the Society.

4. In all cases the decision of the Jurors shall be final and they shall not be required to give any critique or explanation for their decision.

5. Exhibitions are restricted to members of the Society but new memberships will be accepted at the time of submission of paintings.

6. All paintings submitted must be original works of the artist. Paintings executed in class or under instruction will not be accepted.

7. All works submitted must be watercolour paintings executed on paper by transparent technique. Acceptance or rejection of any particular work on technical grounds will be the responsibility of the Jury.

8. Work previously exhibited in an exhibition of the Society are not eligible

9. Two works may be submitted by each member unless otherwise stated in the INSTRUCTIONS. A non-returnable submission fee will be charged on each work submitted to help in covering the cost of the exhibition.

10. For exhibitions held in commercial galleries All works must be for sale and must bear a clear title and price.

11. Works submitted must be suitably framed to gallery standard and ready to hang. The maximum acceptable size of paintings will be specified in the INSTRUCTIONS if required

12. Insurance of works is the responsibility of the artist.

13. From certain exhibitions a limited number of paintings may be selected by the Jury to constitute a traveling exhibition. On such occasions members will be asked at registration whether they will agree to their works joining the traveling exhibition if selected, and will also agree to their painting(s) being photographed to satisfy galleries which require a preview of works before agreeing to accept an exhibition. Works selected will be honorably flagged during the original exhibition.

14. The Society will only accept paintings mounted in white or off-white mattes and without colored liners.

If you need assistance with digital imaging there are two very helpful guidelines, one through the CSPWC at http://www.cspwc.com/eng/pdf/digital_images_en.pdf courtesy of Tim Packer; and another through the SCA, at http://www.societyofcanadianartists.com/membership/di_handout.pdf courtesy of Ken Tannahill .