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Peter Smith

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For me it was just the chance to get my art seen by people outside Melton Mowbray! I have absolutely no expectations of getting anywhere.
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John Graham Inkson

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As Alan said working to a dead line,  which I do not like. Dead lines are something I must be payed for. As I mentioned before there is always a short list about 50 and anyone, anyone on that list could turn up the winner. Once I won a camera but I thought the runner up had a better image that mine, so you see a lot of it, most of it is good fortune. However if you enter competitions a lot and your work is good you should get a winner or two. That’s  my view, I have a place to show my work and thats pleases me. I enjoy the feed back I get. It’s individual we all have a different view.

Jenny Harris

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I enjoy entering competitions, but am realistic as to what I set my sights on.  It gives me something to work towards - and, like Alan, I’ve had some success entering Patchings, having had work selected either for exhibition or as highly commended for all but one of the past six years (although, unlike Alan, no awards!).   I’ve also been a winner in several of the competitions which have featured in The Artist magazine, but what I’ve enjoyed most was being selected as a finalist a few times in the Sketch for Survival competition where paintings are donated by the artist and auctioned to help raise funds for the charity’s conservation work, which is both rewarding and fun to be part of.

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Peter Smith

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None of us are doing it for the glory, are we. I have just donated eight pictures to a local hospice and that is going to give me more pleasure than any competition.
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Brett Hill

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Why do people enter competitions? Odd question.
Russell Edwards on 03/02/2026 13:18:54
Why an odd question?

Alan Bickley

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John mentions his dislike of deadlines! I know what you mean as I spent a lifetime working to tight deadlines when working for the Mail group… but that’s newspapers for you, the nature of the beast as that say! And very stressful… For the TALP competition, we’re talking months, many months in fact, not minutes, so a different scenario altogether, otherwise I certainly wouldn’t be participating. It gives me an end goal to work towards I suppose, and t often brings out the best of me… albeit that isn’t guaranteed!
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Russell Edwards

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Why do you ask the question? Are you being disparaging to those that do perhaps? I have entered the TALP competition on numerous occasions hoping that I would have a piece accepted for exhibition, that has always been my goal as it simply gives you the opportunity of having your work seen by a wider audience. 
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Brett Hill

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Why do you ask the question?   …  it simply gives you the opportunity of having your work seen by a wider audience. 
Russell Edwards on 04/02/2026 00:05:02 Obviously I ask the question (there’s no such thing as a stupid question) to find out something. So it looks like, generally, it’s a way of getting more exposure. 
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