Claude Kitto Award
This award is given each year* to the club member who has shown great improvement and quality in this current year's artwork, in both Imagination and Creativity.
Individual members are encouraged to bring along a portfolio of work that they have created throughout the current year, whilst either at the Club premises, or at the Club's current year's Plein Air sessions.
Award donated by Claude Kitto's widow. Claude Kitto was a well respected Westcountry watercolourist.
*Please note: Winners cannot re-submit work for nomination, for the following 2 consecutive years from receipt of the Award.
2025 Winner:
Dana Aala
Congratulations go to Dana, for winning this year's Claude Kitto Award. The members viewed her portfolio: detailed and beautifully varied, and judged her work to have shown great quality and improvement, for this year.
PREVIOUS WINNERS
2024: Stephen Ladds
2023: Monica Elliott
2022: Aleksandra Sosnowska
2019: Mark Hannon
2018: Deirdre Tendell
2017: Richard Stimpson
2016: Richard Stimpson
2015: Kevin Cooper
2014: Phil Battley
2013: Monica Elliott
The 'Public voted' favourite Exhibition painting
This award is given to the club member whose individual, single piece of artwork, created in the current year, was voted the favourite by both members and the public, at the Club's yearly Exhibition.
*This award is a separate award, and therefore should NOT be included in a member's annual portfolio of work submitted for nomination for the Claude Kitto award
2025 Winner:
Aleksandra Sosnowska
Congratulations to Aleks for winning the 2025 award.
Best Painting of the Year Award
This award is given to the club member whose individual, single piece of artwork, created in the current year, was voted the favourite by club members.
*This award is a separate award, and therefore should NOT be included in a member's annual portfolio of work submitted for nomination for the Claude Kitto award
2025 Winner:
Mark Hannon
Congratulations to Mark for winning the 2025 award.
PREVIOUS WINNERS
2024: David Fernandez Giron
