It was fantastic to be able to once again hold our annual exhibition at Penarth Pavilion.  Our President, Peter Cronin RSMA opened the show and presented the prizes.  

He also awarded 'The President's Choice' to Jennifer Humphries for her stunning watercolour 'Nature's Beauty'.  Many congratulations to all the prize winners and indeed all whose work was selected for the show.

The exhibition will be held at the Penarth Pavilion for the month of April 2022.

Words by Jude Harrington

Congratulations to all the winners. We would like to thank our panel of judges: Alex Brown, Roger Haigh and Oriane Pierrepoint, and our President, Peter Cronin, for presenting the prizes.

A gallery of some of the paintings hanging in the exhibition will be online soon, and a list of the Annual Competition winners is here.

Joe Rhodes wins the Anthony Rapport Trophy for his painting ‘Penarth Seafront’.

(Above, left to right): Arnold Lowrey won the Landscape Prize for his painting ‘A Clutter of Cottages’; Jennifer Hirst Alsop won the Beryl Saunders Memorial Plate for the best still life painting ‘Old Railway Lamplight’ and Eli Absi won the ‘Copystat /Windsor & Newton Perpetual Salver’ for the best portrait ‘Atlantic Odyssey.

(Below, left to right): Jennifer Hirst Alsop won the new Floral Category for ‘Nature’s Beauty’; The Lilac Searle Rose Bowl for the best abstract painting was won by Sylvia Donovan for ‘Beddgelert Way’ and Brian Kemp won the Rosemary Bramley Cup for the best Line & Wash painting ‘ Dry Dock, Tenby Harbour’.

Below, left to right: Joe Rhodes won the Morag & Norman Robertson Plaque for the best Marine painting ‘ Rocky Pebbles, Rest Bay’; Jennifer Hirst Alsop also won the President’s Choice Cup and Dimitrios Venetsianos won the Figurative Prize for ‘Blind Date’.