Submission to the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

I have never entered the RA summer exhibition before, largely because of the vast numbers of entries (12,000+ ) however this year I have decided to enter Halzephron I and see what happens?
It is certainly topical subject matter at the moment with the country being battered by storms and  floods.

24/03/13
Well someone famous and praiseworthy once said, don't judge a man by his success but by his failures !!
 This appears to be one of mine so far, didn't even make the first sift in the RA summer exhibition.You wonder what the judges criteria is , but I guess it's just the way it goes sometimes.
Was  not looking forward to lugging it up to town just to get turned down at the next hurdle  anyway!
Tricky things these open competitions.

 This Painting was entered for the Royal Society of Marine  artists last year , made the first sift but I couldn't drop it off on the delivery day,

Thinking about my next set of paintings at the moment, onward and upward !