At the 144th Open Annual Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW) in 2025 I was delighted to receive the Scottish Arts Club Award. This show is the result. This collection of paintings features works from recent travels to Mauritius, Mexico, Japan, France and London
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.
“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..”
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.
Paintings and original prints from artists of the Royal Watercolour Society and Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers available to take away immediately on purchase.
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.
Small Shop, Port Maturin, Rodrigues, watercolour on paper, 2024.
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).’