Showcase for traditional art

Artists in Perthshire are being challenged to show their traditional artistic skills with the chance to win up to £15,000 and a gold medal in this year’s national Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize.

Now in its 12 th year, the country’ s leading prize for representational and figurative art – art that seeks to capture the real world – is open for entries.

The contest offers total prize money of £30,000, including a first prize of £15,000, second prize of £4,000 alongside the newly introduced People’s Prize worth £2,000.

Entrants 25 or under can compete for the Young Artist Award of £4,000. This is a prize that aims to promote and support fresh new talent.

The competition is open to any artist resident in the UK painting or drawing works of representational or figurative art and over 18-years-old. Both amateur artists and professionals can submit up to four pieces of work.

Artist Ken Howard, who chairs the judges, said: “The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize celebrates the very best of British representational art and acts as a showcase to the rest of the world.

“It’s all about the way in which our artists see the real world and capture it.”

Around 100 entries will be selected for display in London’s Mall Galleries for two weeks in March next year when the winners are also announced. The deadline for entries is December 19.