Enter and you could win a chance to exhibit and

a cash donation for your child’s school art department
Waterstone?s Children?s Laureate, the highly celebrated writer and illustrator Chris Riddell, is to judge this year?s National Open Art Children?s Competition.
Budding artists aged 14 and under are being encouraged to submit paintings, drawings, prints, illustrations, photographs, wall hung installations, digital art and moving image pieces to the UK?s leading open art competition.
Chris, a former recipient of the Hay Festival Medal for Illustration, and whose work includes Goth Girl and The Emperor of Absurdia and is currently shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal for The Sleeper and the Spindle, said, ?Judging National Open Art?s Children?s Competition is an exciting prospect. Children are often very creative and artistic by nature and there are some incredibly talented young artists out there. How to Enter
?Anything that encourages and develops this talent is something to be celebrated, and NOA?s competition provides one of the very best opportunities around.?
The children?s competition runs alongside the main National Open Art competition, which celebrates its 20th birthday this year.
NOA will award a first, second and third prize in the children?s competition, consisting of a donation of £2,000, £1,000 and £500 to the artists? school art departments, plus an individual prize each.
This year?s winning artworks will be exhibited as part of NOA?s pr...