The RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition is an annual competition that aims to encourage innovation and experimentation in watercolour painting, spanning work on paper in watercolour, acrylic, gouache, pen & ink and watercolour mixed media. Artists may enter up to three works which, if selected, are exhibited at Bankside Gallery in London, the home of the Royal Watercolour Society. The upcoming exhibition is scheduled for 22 February through 3 March, 2013. RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition – Encourage Innovation and Experimentation in Watercolour PaintingThe RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition is open to non-Members of the Royal Watercolour Society. Any artist (providing they are not a member of the RWS) working with water-based media can apply.

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The Royal Photographic Society (RPS) in partnership with the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) has put out a call for the world’s best scientific images. Scientists creating images to support their research and photographers making images to record science in all its aspects showing applications of diverse photographic techniques are encouraged to submit images. 100 of the best – selected by scientists, photographers, and those working in the field – will be included in an exhibition that will open in Newcastle in September 2013 as part of the British Science Festival and will then tour the UK and abroad.

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