Experience Peel Paint Out Award:

Participating artists to vote

Ray White Mandurah Acquisitional Award:

Ray White Mandurah Team

Major Awards:

Greg Barnes, Andy Dolphin, Gillian Kaye Peebles

Pinjarra Acquisitional Award:

Shire of Murray

Quick Draw Awards:

Leon Holmes, Greg Barnes, Andy Dolphin and others TBA

Feature Artists are exempt from all competitions, awards and prizes with the exception of the People’s Choice Awards, which are judged by the general public.

Artwork by Greg Barnes

An extract from “A Judge’s Perspective” by Gillian Kaye Peebles

PLEIN AIR IN COMPETITION are artworks executed outdoors, commenced and completed on the one site, in the one location. It is no longer Plein Air if it is touched up or worked on after leaving the site.

Plein Air artworks should foremost display the characteristics of being executed out of doors, on site and on location. The challenge is to display a singular image, an interpretation of that site’s collective objects and subjects. Generally executed in a single sitting, it should show skills of spontaneity in capturing the visuals while being challenged by climatic conditions and the elements of the artist’s surroundings.

Read the full Judge’s Perspective here

A note from the Festival Organisers:

Artwork created at all Plein Air Down Under events should be the artists interpretation of what exists in the natural environment or what is provided by organisers. This is the spirit of Plein Air Down Under based on the history of the Plein Air Painting movement.