Saatchi Art announces winner of world's most highly-submitted art prize

Jonathan Gabb has been announced as the winner of the Saatchi Art “In Glorious Colour” Showdown competition. With 6,440 entries in a period of just 12 days, the competition, presented in partnership with the Saatchi Gallery and Winsor & Newton, received the highest number of submissions of any previous art prize. In an interview with Studio International, Gabb described how his sculptural paintings “reveal layers of colour and worlds of colour” and how he “want[s] people to delve into them or to want to delve into them.”

The works of the 10 finalists are on show at the Griffin Gallery, London, until 18 April and can be seen online at www.saatchiart.com