The esteemed judging panel was made up of Adebanji Alade, the Vice President of The Royal Institute of Oil Painters and Artist in Residence of the BBC's The One Show, Alvaro Castagnet, the world-renowned watercolour master, Dr. Amy Orrock, national curator for the National Trust, lecturer at the Arts Society and art historian, and Alastair Sooke, writer, broadcaster and The Telegraph's chief art critic.