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Make Your Mark
Daler Rowney
MAKE YOUR MARK - A NEW
INTERNATIONAL ART COMPETITION FOR ALL
Daler-Rowney, the
international fine arts company, announce today a new international
art competition Make Your Mark. The competition is to celebrate the
225th anniversary of Daler-Rowney and to encourage artists at all
levels.
The competition is open to
all and there are four categories with the following prizes:
Under 12's
A unique painting set, certificate and £1,000 (or equivalent in local
currency) worth of art materials for your school. Plus a year's
subscription of the Leisure Painter magazine.
Under 16's
A unique painting set, certificate and £1,000 (or equivalent in local
currency) worth of art materials for your school. Plus a year's
subscription of Leisure Painter magazine.
Further Education
Two nights in London and will spend a day with an acclaimed artist.
Plus a year's subscription of the Artist magazine.
Leisure Painters
A trip to the Dominican Republic for one week to visit the
art sanctuary. Plus a year's subscription of the Leisure Painter
magazine.
Entry forms are available
on the dedicated website www.mymcompetition.com. Entries may be on
any subject and in any media. All competitors must register on the
web site and entries must be uploaded into the competition gallery on
the website for judging before the deadline of December 1st.
One winner will be
selected from each category together with four runners up making a
total of twenty winners. The winners art work will be exhibited at The
Mall Galleries in London in 2009. The Chairman of the judges is the
internationally acclaimed artist Romeo di Girolamo, President Royal
Society British Artists.
The competition itself is
all about inspiration,to encourage more people to paint and make their
mark.
Dominique Flandrin Group
Marketing Director at Daler-Rowney said “Make Your Mark will bring
unknown talents to the spotlight and I urge artists at all levels to
participate and have a chance of featuring their work in a major
London Gallery. “
For more information and
photos please contact Judith Diment Judith@thediments.co.uk
Telephone 07860 162313
Issued on behalf of Eybi
Omana eybi.omana@daler-rowney.com – Telephone 01344 461066
Notes for Editors
Daler-Rowney 1783-2008
Daler-Rowney’s reputation
as a manufacturer of the Finest Art Materials dates back more than 200
years. In 1983, the Daler Board Company purchased the George Rowney
Company to become Daler-Rowney Limited as it’s known today. In their
own specialist areas of manufacture, both companies led the
development of fine artist’s materials in the United Kingdom for
hundreds of years. The combined heritage of both companies and the
Daler-Rowney name has become synonymous with consistent quality to
artists throughout the world.
In 1783, the Rowney
Company was established when Richard and Thomas Rowney moved to
central London and opened a premises selling perfumes and wig powder.
As the wearing of wigs soon became unfashionable (an event for which
George IV was blamed as he discarded his own wig), the Rowney’s
re-focused themselves and concentrated upon producing artists colour.
They accomplished notable success, supplying such famous artists as
Constable and Turner. Turner was indeed a family friend for whom the
company became the appointed official lithographers.
The Rowney Company
relocated many times during the 19th and 20th centuries and achieved
many improvements in the manufacture and production of oil and
watercolour throughout this time. In 1963, Rowney was the first
manufacturer in Europe to introduce an artist’s Acrylic colour.
‘Cryla’ was widely used by artist’s in the United Kingdom throughout
the 1960’s and 70’s and heralded a new era in art practice which
became known as ‘Pop Art’. Two of the most well known proponents,
Peter Blake and Bridget Riley, used Rowney ‘Cryla’ acrylics
extensively during this period. In 1969, the company made its final
move out of central London to its present address and headquarters in
Bracknell, England. The business had passed through generations of
Rowney children and Tom Rowney was now at the helm. Tom worked as
Managing Director for over 30 years but as he had no family following
him in the business, he looked for a buyer. Morgan Crucible, a
conglomerate, bought the George Rowney Company in 1968 and managed its
operations for a number of years. In 1983 the company was re-sold to
the Daler-Board Company (1983 also being Rowney’s bi-centennial year).
The Daler Board Company
was incorporated in 1946 starting life the previous year when Terry
Daler returned from a German prison camp. With his brother Ken and
brother in law Arthur, they initially started business as sign
writers. During the Second World War, shop signs along the south
coastal towns of England had been painted out so that invading Germans
would not know where they were. As a result, the business thrived in
the years that followed the end of the war as shop signs were
re-painted once more.
Another little known
shortage of wartime was the inability for artists to obtain canvas.
Typically, an oil painting requires a sealed, toothed surface to pull
the thick oil colour off the brush. Arthur, a talented artist
himself, improvised to create a new surface to replace canvas.
Cardboard was sealed and primed through a mesh (we believe he used a
kitchen net curtain), which when removed left a perfectly textured
surface. Arthur’s canvas substitute was eventually developed into a
commercial product and the ‘Daler Board’ was born.
Daler developed a variety
of products across the whole spectrum of artist’s materials between
1945 and 1960 including pads such as the distinctive red and yellow
Series A. Other new products to the Daler range included canvas
panels, stretched canvas, mountboard and artist’s luggage. In 1975,
Daler introduced the first synthetic brush to the artists materials
market. ‘Dalon’ was the first real rival to the sable brush for over
100 years.
Once the two companies
merged, Daler-Rowney became highly successful in the United Kingdom
and has become one of the leaders in the artist’s materials market.
Daler-Rowney had already
established distribution offices in New Jersey, USA in 1988, and in
1994 bought the premier brand of artist’s brushes in the USA, ‘Robert
Simmons’. In 2006 Daler Rowney acquired Cachet products one of the
market leaders in hardback books. The company has three manufacturing
sites – colour and artists substrates at two sites in the United
Kingdom and brushes in the Dominican Republic. Exports are made to
over 90 countries worldwide.
Daler-Rowney has
maintained and built upon its reputation. Inspiring creativity since
1783.
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