2024 Exhibition of Water colour
Award Winning Watercolours and Judging Results
Gallery of Award Winning Watercolours
WSQ Masters Award - Winner
WSQ Masters Award - Runner-Up
Whispers on the Water
Samaneh Mohtadi
Gum
Penelope Gilbert-Ng
WSQ Award - Winner
Last Snow
Leonie Seabrook
WSQ Award - Runner-Up
Bush Plums
Pam Thompson
WSQ Award - 2nd Runner-Up
A Little Backstreet
Yuko Sherry
WSQ Award - Highly Commended
Grass Tree
Phil Cawthan
High Country
Susan House
Spires of Porto
Anne Maree O'Brien
WSQ Avant-garde Award - Winner
Spilling the Goss
Paquita Fadden
WSQ People's Choice Award - Winner
Reflections of Time
Samaneh Mohtadi
People's Choice 2nd Place
Ducks by Cecelia Xiao
People's Choice 3rd Place
Pondering Girraween by Szczepan Urbanowicz
2024 Judging Commentary
2024 Judges ​
Pat Hall, multi-award-winning watercolourist, exhibited at Lethbridge Gallery, Watershed Gallery and Traffic Jam Galleries - Neutral Bay. Pat specialises using stretched paper canvases with bold paintings inspired by the textures, colours and dazzling sunlight of Australian gardens and bushland.
Dr Bill Platz, an American-Australian artist, teacher and researcher with a disciplinary focus on drawing and research concentrations in life drawing, portraiture and pedagogies of drawing. Dr Platz is currently Head of Drawing at Queensland College of Art and Design (Griffith University). He previously served as Deputy Head of School (Director of Research and Postgrad), Program Director of Fine Art; Foundations Coordinator for Fine Art and Photography; and Higher Degree Research Convenor. His most recent solo show was the exhibition School of the Living and the Dead at Grafton Regional Gallery.
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Annette Raff, Royal Queensland Art Society Judge, art practitioner and teacher for the past 27 years with 3 Artist-In-Residencies. Her latest work continues to evolve, reflecting a fusion of both recognizable and abstract imagery. Annette enjoys working with a variety of mixed media, including collage, monotype, drawing, and acrylic and oil painting. Annette's work has received numerous awards in local, national and international art exhibitions.