Love Summer!... a competition for summer painting

Winsor & Newton NZ Summer Watercolour Competition - 2025


Paint your summer days away, then choose your best work to enter the competition. The winning work will grace the front of the March newsletter. Paintings will be exhibited on our website, Facebook and Instagram pages.

A panel of judges will award three prizes of Winsor & Newton art supplies. The winners will select their prize from a list of Winsor & Newton watercolour products.

  • 1st valued at $300
  • 2nd - valued at $150
  • 3rd - valued at $75

To enter:

1. Choose your best summer painting.
2. Make a digital image of the painting only, with no mat or frame.
3. Name the image in this format: : Bob Green Summer days.
4. Email: Subject line: Summer competition. Email to info@watercolournewzealand.nz

Rules

  • Entry is open to current members of Watercolour New Zealand Inc. residing in New Zealand
  • One entry per member
  • Theme: Love Summer!
  • The entry must be the original work of the member; must not be copied from another persons painting or photograph
  • Watercolour is primarily a transparent medium painted on paper. However, other water based media such as gouache and acrylic paint are acceptable, provided they are used with watercolour technique on paper. Works using impasto or other oil colour techniques fall outside this definition. Mixed media works if primarily watercolour but also using ink, pencil, pastel, crayon are acceptable.
  • Entries must have been completed within the 3 months prior to closing day, 31 January
  • Entries exhibited in any other public or online exhibition are eligible
  • Digital images must be of publishable quality; min 1080px wide, approx. size 1-4 MB.
  • Entries may be used for promotion of Watercolour New Zealand and/or Winsor & Newton New Zealand
  • The decision of the judges is final and no correspondence will be entered into
  • Entries close midnight 31 January

The competition is managed by Watercolour New Zealand. We wish to thank Winsor & Newton NZ for their sponsorship.

"Daylight falls in the field" by Mitsuyo Field",
Winsor & Newton Summer-2024 Competition Winner