Bankside Gallery, London
20 March – 18 April 2026
RWS Spring 2026: Wherever You Go, There You Are
Category Archives: Exhibition
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The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW) Open Annual Exhibition
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
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
The Shapes of Water
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
Summer at the Bankside Gallery 2025
Paintings and original prints from artists of the Royal Watercolour Society and Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers available to take away immediately on purchase.
A Sense of Place
Begins 9th August at 10am
Great to be part of this show at the Palm Court Lounge, The Phoenicia, Valletta. Thanks to Prof Charlene Vella.
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
RWS Spring 2025
The Royal Watercolour Society annual Spring exhibition, featuring works in waterbased media on paper.
28 March – 26 April 2025
Bankside Gallery. Details here.
Thames Riverside
48 Hopton Street
London SE1 9JH
RSW Open Annual Exhibition
The 144th Annual Open Exhibition
Delighted to be a part of the annual open show and to have won an award. My painting, Small Shop, Port Maturin, Rodrigues, received the Scottish Arts Club Award.
The show continues Saturday 11 Jan – Tuesday 5 Feb 2024.
Royal Scottish Academy Building, Edinburgh
RSA Upper Galleries. Daily: 10 – 5pm
‘The 144th Open Annual Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW) is Scotland’s primary showcase of watercolour and water-based media. …The exhibition in the RSA Upper Galleries on The Mound, Edinburgh, over 300 paintings … showing the best of contemporary watercolour just across the hall from the National Gallery of Scotland’s Turner watercolours.’
‘The show includes some 200 paintings by RSW members, and over 100 paintings by non-members who were selected from the open submission. The online show includes one work by each artist in the show (with a small number of exceptions).’
More details online here.
Mini Picture Show
6 December 2024 – 26 January 2025
Bankside Gallery, London.
A selection of small artworks by members of the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers.
The exhibition officially opens on Friday 6 December, but will be open late on Thursday 5 December between 6-8pm.
Peter Quinn 