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We feature below the past five years' winners and 'Highly Commended' entries

47th ANNUAL SUMMER EXHIBITION
Tuesday 14th August to Monday 27 August 2012
Our selectors were Mary Spicer, East Anglian artist and teacher, Jack Stephenson, local artist and President of Southwold Art Circle and Jane Pollock, former chair and member of the Southwold Art Circle committee.

Christina Whitehead Award for an Oil Painting
Winner: 'A Water Neadow in Surrey' by Tony Richards

Christina Whitehead Award for an Oil Painting
Highly Commended: 'Hi-Viz Convention' by Barry Tolfree

Christina Whitehead Award for an Oil Painting
Highly Commended: 'Marbles' by David John Leathers

Christina Whitehead Award for a work in media other than oils
Winner: 'Winter Fields' by Ruth McCabe

Christina Whitehead Award for a work in media other than oils
Highly Commended: 'Coffee Break' by John Straffon

Christina Whitehead Award for a work in media other than oils
Highly Commended: 'Minsmere Reed Beds' by Gill Carter

Sylvia Frere-Smith Award for a watercolour
Winner: 'Aldebugh Beach' by Mita Higton

Sylvia Frere-Smith Award for a watercolour
Highly Commended: 'Southwold Dunes' by Lenny Townsend

Sylvia Frere-Smith Award for a watercolour
Highly Commended: 'Viola Odorata' by Maryrose Milford Rintoul

Sylvia Frere-Smith Award for a watercolour
Hghly Commended: 'Pink Reflections, Leiston Abbey' by Jon Swallow

President's Award for Drawing
Not awarded

John Simpson Memorial Award
Winner: 'Leigh on Sea' by F A Wright

John Simpson Memorial Award
Highly Commended: 'Songs of Travel 6' by Mike Holtom

John Simpson Memorial Award
Highly Commended: 'Abalone Shell' by Betty Wright

Mona Thomson Award for Printmaking
Winner: 'Shadows of Time' by Sue Room

Mona Thomson Award for Printmaking
Highly Commended: 'Suffolk Seascape' by Peter Chadwick

Mona Thomson Award for Printmaking
Highly Commended: 'Twilight on the River Blyth' by David Weight

46th ANNUAL SUMMER EXHIBITION
Tuesday 16th August to Monday 29 August 2011
Our selectors were Richard Dack, East Anglian artist and teacher, Jack Stephenson, local artist and President of Southwold Art Circle and Jane Pollock, former chair and member of the Southwold Art Circle committee.

Christina Whitehead Award for an Oil Painting
Winner: 'Walberswick Evening' by Rosemary Carruthers

Christina Whitehead Award for an Oil Painting
Highly commended: 'Sailors' Path' by Tony Richards

Christina Whitehead Award for an Oil Painting
Highly commended: 'The Lily Pond' by Keith Wragg

Christina Whitehead Award for a work in media other than oils
Winner: 'Ice thawing on Oulton Broad' by Marie Paine

Christina Whitehead Award for a work in media other than oils
Highly commended: 'Poppies' by Marion Allen

Christina Whitehead Award for a work in media other than oils
Highly commended: 'Flying kites at Shingle Street' by Moyra Byford. Not illustrated

Sylvia Frere-Smith Award for a watercolour
Winner: 'The River Blyth in early Spring' by Andrew Pitt

Sylvia Frere-Smith Award for a watercolour
Highly commended: 'Market Place' by Wil Harvey

Sylvia Frere-Smith Award for a watercolour
Highly commended: 'Farmhouse, Beccles' by David Walsh
Not illustrated

The John Simpson Memorial Award
'Southwold Sunrise' by John Straffon

President's Award for Drawing

'Glenda, standing nude' by Tony Richards

45th ANNUAL SUMMER EXHIBITION
Tuesday 17th August to Monday 30 August 2010
Our selectors for this year's show were Graham Giles - Suffolk artist and lecturer at Colchester, Camberwell and Norwich Schools of Art, and Moss Fuller, Suffolk artist whose work has always been closely involved in landscape.

We are fortunate, this year to have been offered the services of professional photographer, Barry Gould, ABPPA,ARPS, to whom we are very grateful for the following images of the main award winners.

Who won what?

Christina Whitehead Award for an Oil Painting
Winner:
Spontaneity, oil by Carolann Gould

Highly commended:
Panorama from Easton by Jane Pollock

Christina Whitehead Award for a work in media other than oils
Winner:
The Cherry Tree, etching with aquatint by Peter Chadwick

Highly commended:
Hmm, Chicken Again by Lesley Fisher

Highly commended:
Jetty at Lake Lothing by Marie Paine

Highly commended:
Sunflower Seedheads by David Weight

Highly commended:
Suffolk Barn, Late Summer by Betty Wright

Sylvia Frere-Smith Award for a watercolour
Winner:
Food for Young Barn Owls by Mike Williams

Highly commended:
Normandy Scene by David Walsh

Highly commended:
Martindale, Ullswater by David Weight

President's Award for Drawing
Winner:
Ballet Dancer Resting, Charcoal, David Weight

John Simpson Memorial Award
Winner:
Heads Held High, Pastel, Marie Limb

44th ANNUAL SUMMER EXHIBITION
Tuesday 18 August to Monday 31 August 2009
Our selectors for this year's show were David Burns, Art Teacher at Saint Felix School, and well known local artist, Richard Dack.

Unfortunately, by the time we got round to taking the photos a number of winning works had been sold so are not illustrated below.

Who won what?

Christina Whitehead Award for an Oil Painting
Winner:
Storm Tossed by Jo Lowrie

Highly commended:
Tuddenham St Martin by Jane Pollock

Highly commended:
Egg Shells by John Leathers

Christina Whitehead Award for a work in media other than oils
Winner:
Snow Covered Sunflowers by Averil Ribbans Keatley

Not illustrated

Highly commended:
Abstract by Gill Carter

Highly commended:
Still Life by Mary Cousin

Sylvia Frere-Smith Award for a watercolour
Winner:
Blackshore Hard by Lennie Townsend

Highly commended:
Poppies by Fedora Dadou

Not illustrated

President's Award for Drawing
Winner:
Studio with Mirror by Betty Wright

Not illustrated

John Simpson Memorial Award
Winner:
Garage by F.A. Wright

Junior Awards 2009

"Beachcombing"

Sponsored jointly by Southwold Art Circle and Southwold and Reydon Branch of NADFAS

Southwold Primary School Year 4 (Age 8 - 9)

FIRST Madeleine Gladwell

SECOND Annabel Scarle

HIGHLY COMMENDED Megan King

Reydon Primary School (Age 6- 7)

FIRST Lauren Hillstead

SECOND Marcia Ginn

Reydon Primary School (Reception)

FIRST Amber Kent

SECOND Isabel Johnston

Saint Felix School (Age 15)

FIRST= Annabel Stannard

FIRST= Danielle Ash

HIGHLY COMMENDED: Bryony Campbell

Saint Felix School (Age 13)

FIRST Sassina Thomas

SECOND Bethany Hood

43rd ANNUAL SUMMER EXHIBITION
Tuesday 12 August to Tuesday 26 August 2008
Our selectors for this year's show were Jude Lockie, professional artist and printmaker, and Karen Keable, artist and owner of the Southwold Gallery.

Who won what?

Christina Whitehead Award for an Oil Painting
Winner:
Ruth McCabe - Tracks