Marie Dyson Award
BACKGROUND
Since 1968, the Marie Dyson Award has been presented to one of our members at the Annual Exhibition for a piece of work judged to be of outstanding merit by an invited assessor. Marie Dyson was described as “…one of the Guild’s brightest spirits… outstanding innovator, whose initiative and enthusiasm had in large measure been instrumental in transforming the nature of our society”. This Award was founded in her memory after her untimely death in 1967.
WINNERS
2012
Without Wings
Relief appliqué and woollen hand stitch
Lou Jessop
Assessor: Anna Lever
2011
Wetlands
Acrylic
Jean Aust
Assessor: Kaye McArthur
2010
CMYurK (twins)
Assemblage
Chris Mercier
Assessor: Martin Andrews
2009
Untiltled
Ink
Helen Lunn
Assessor: Suzanne Stallard
2008
A Smoke Maker
Oil
Julian Mitchell
Assessor: Elaine Blake
2007
Composition 3
Oil
David Fletcher
Assessor: Paul Kessling
2006
Light and Shade in Leros
Gouache
Alan Neville
Assessor: Patricia Jordan Evans
2004
Outside the Forbury
Oil
Robert Phillips
Assessor: Camilla Shelley
2003
The Viaduct
Acrylic
Maureen Hayward
Assessor: Christine Hall
2002
Wittenham Clumps from Swyncombe
Oil
Lynda South
Assessor: Juliet Reid
2001
Fruit Bowl
Mono print
Marie Sudwell
Assessor: Alan Caiger‐Smith
2000
Big Bang – The Oracle?
Watercolour
Richard Canever
Assessor: Terry Edmond
1999
Fruit against a red cloth
Watercolour
Pam Simpson
Assessor: Jane Dodwell
1998
Night Journey
Oil painting
Pam Simpson
Assessor: John Simpson
1997
Cathy
Acrylic
Brian Matravers
Assessor: Anthony Southwell
1996
Meintjieskop
3 plate sugarlift aquatint with carborundum printed on pink chine collé
Susanne du Toit
Assessor: Professor Michael Twyman
1995
Geraniums
Oil
Joan Wilder
Assessor: Professor Stephen Buckley
1994
Susan Thomson
Assessor: Paul Millichip
1993
Woodland Pool
Betty Devonald
Assessor: Alan Plummer
1992
Thames Valley, March
Susan Norman
Assessor: Olwen Reid
1991
The Gathering
Christine Hopkins
Assessor: Tom Coates
MISSING RECORDS
Although we have a list of winners’ names, the RGA doesn’t have a comprehensive “visual record” of all the works that have won this award and we would like to rectify this.
New discoveries have been added – however, can you help fill in the blanks? If you have any information at all, be it the name of a work, a photograph of it, newspaper cutting, or perhaps you own one of the works, please contact our Archivist.
Many thanks to all those who have already contributed.