Turners Art to sponsor PDA's Young Artist Competition .

Peak

District Artisans has already received an overwhelming response to their 2012

Young Artist of the Year competition, with enquiries from throughout the UK.

Turners Art

has now signed up as sole sponsor to the competition which has allowed PDA to invest in high quality exhibition

display equipment for the winners to use at the Group's prestigious Great Dome

Art Fair in July.

Turners

currently supply art materials and equipment to schools, colleges and many

other establishments throughout the region.

Company

Director and owner, Jill Limmack said: "We are delighted to be supporting this

fantastic initiative. There's such great talent out there and it's great to be

able to help these people using the specialist resources and expertise we

supply."

Open to art

students aged between 16 and 19, the competition aims to identify and give

recognition to art students with outstanding talent throughout the UK. There are

no restrictions on technique, materials or style. The work can be 2D or 3D, but

it must be effectively reproduced in 2D printed form if required.

Successful candidates will be shortlisted and

provided with the opportunity to compete in the final. Entries will be judged

by a panel of group members who will select the winners.

The overall

winner will receive £200 in cash, with second and third places receiving £100

and £50 respectively. All three will exhibit

their work alongside some of the Peak Districts' finest artisans at the award

winning annual Great Dome Art Fair to be held in Buxton, 20th – 22nd

July. The fair is a well know and well attended event in the region's art

calendar organised by the Peak District Artisans.

The deadline

for entries is 6pm, Friday 8th June 2012, followed by the shortlist announcement

on 22nd June 2012. The shortlisted candidates must have their

original piece delivered to PDA by 29th June for the final judging

stage. More information and details on how to enter is available on the website

www.peakdistrictartisans.co.uk

or by contacting enquiries@pdayoungartist.co.uk