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In response to numerous enquiries from artists, artists agents and galleries, the organisers need to stress that artists entries must conform to the basic terms and conditions of the Cricket Art Prize i.e. that their painting should represent or depict life in and around the game of cricket or aspects of the sport of cricket.

Their work may be figurative – paintings which are clearly derived from real object sources, and are therefore by definition representational; art which represents human figures; the term figurative has been used to refer to any form of art that retains strong references to the real world.

Their painting may be a still-life – a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects or cricket paraphernalia – stumps & bails, pads, gloves, caps, scorebooks etc in a natural and /or incidental setting of backyard cricket, street cricket, beach cricket, social-cricket or local club cricket.

Acceptable media are: Paintings – oil, acrylic, water-colour or mixed media on canvass or artists paper with a cubist, impressionist, tonalist, fauvist, surrealist, pop art, futurist, hard-edge, modern, naïve, orientalist, pointillist, precisionist, primitive, regionalist or romanticist style.

A portrait painting of a cricketer (past or present) is not, by the organisers’ definition, a cricket painting, but a portrait and the Cricket Art Prize is not a portrait art prize.