Trees, Rabat

Trees, Rabat, watercolour on paper, 2024

My watercolour Trees, Rabat can be viewed at the head office of Perry Estate Agents, Sliema, Malta. The painting appears on the cover of 2026 edition of the company’s brochure, Issue 64.

Inside you can read an essay ‘Under the Canopy of Time’ by Professor Charlene Vella of the Department of Art and Art History, University of Malta.

RSW

The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW) Open Annual Exhibition

The Print Shop Venice 2023, 854 x 201mm, watercolour on paper.

The 145th Open Annual Exhibition will run from 15th February to 11th March 2026 in the Upper Galleries of the Royal Scottish Academy building in Edinburgh.

Open daily 10am-5pm. Free admission.

Further details can be found here.

Installation shots, 3rd March 2026.

The Mini Picture Show 2025

Peter Quinn RWS, Market Stall, Mauritius 2025

28 November 2025 – Late January 2026

“The Mini Picture Show is now open! We have over 400 artworks on display, all by members of the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. All works are available to take home immediately..” 

Bankside Gallery

28 November 2025 – Late January 2026

Click here for works

Be Part of Art 4

Venice Sletch, Fondamenta S. Ana, lithograph by Peter Quinn. Drawn on stone with Holeedtions.

Online art auction raising funds for the RWS
13 – 16 November 2025

It’s your chance to be part of art again!

100 original artworks by Members of the RWS and selected guests will be available for sale in our online fundraising auction. As with our previous auctions, this will be a rare chance to buy RWS artworks at very special prices.

The RWS is a registered educational charity and receives no government or public funding. By placing a bid in this auction, you will help raise vital funds for the RWS and ensure the sustainability and longevity of the Society for future generations to enjoy.

Browse the works (click here) and place your bids online from Thursday 13th November at 12pm until Sunday 16th of November at 8pm.

The Shapes of Water

Unagi Restaurant, Tokyo, watercolour on paper, Peter Quinn.
The shapes in water are what watercolourists work in. Watercolour’s great complication is its transparency, challenging every aspect of the artist’s skill.
In their pursuit of capturing form, many artists build thick layers of waterbased paint, while others hint at shape with indications of colour applied in broad washes. For more than two hundred years the RWS has represented the very best in water-based media on paper and to this day artists continue to push at the limits of this unpredictable medium and its capabilities.
Bankside Gallery, 3 October – 1 November 2025

Tim Marlow Selects

Bankside Gallery 45th Anniversary Exhibition

Delighted to have a painting in this show.

To mark a significant anniversary of its time on London’s Thames Riverside, Bankside Gallery is holding a celebratory exhibition of work by members of the Royal Watercolour Society (RWS) and the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE), curated by Tim Marlow OBE; writer, broadcaster, art historian and current Director and CEO of the Design Museum.

31 July – 10 August 2025

Small Works

RWS Gallery at Whitcomb Street | 8th – 23rd May

An exhibition of works on paper by RWS Members, Associates and Guest Members exploring art on a small scale.

The RWS is an artist-led Society made up of an elected Membership who are amongst the finest practitioners in contemporary water-based painting. In this exhibition, artists are celebrating water-based media in all its forms, including gouache, acrylic, pen & ink, pigment, collage, mixed media as well as traditional watercolour.

Bistrot
Bistrot, Latin Quarter, Paris, watercolour on paper 2024