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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.

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

RWS Autumn 2024: 220 Years of the RWS

The Royal Watercolour Society had its beginnings in a coffee house on Oxford Street in November 1804. Today, almost 220 year later we’re proud to say that the RWS is still championing water-based media and has over 75 active and exhibiting artist members.

Boys and Gulls, Seahouses Harbour, Northumberland, wqatercolour on paper 2023.

The xhibition is on 4 October – 2 November 2024

Details on the gallery website here.

Summer at Bankside Gallery

Summer at Bankside Gallery. All artworks are original pieces by contemporary painters and printmakers of the Royal Watercolour Society and Royal Society of Painter Printmakers.

5 August – 11 September 2022

Bankside Gallery, Thames Riverside, 48 Hopton Street, London SE1 9JH

Kiosk, Flic en Flac, Mauritius. Peter Quinn RWS, watercolour on paper.

New work

One person exhibition, Gallagher and Turner, Newcastle.

Exhibition:24th November, 2023 – 27th January, 2024
Preview: Thursday 23rd November, 5-7:30pm
Christmas drinks & meet the artist: Saturday 9th December, 2-4pm

Gallagher & Turner are proud to present an exhibition of watercolour paintings capturing the colour and character of street life, by Royal Watercolour Society and Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour artist, Peter Quinn.

Online catalogue available from the gallery here.

RWS Autumn: Less is More

7 October – 5 November 2022

‘For their annual Autumn exhibition at Bankside Gallery, artists of the Royal Watercolour Society are exploring the notion of ‘less is more’. But have no doubt, this exhibition will be anything but understated. The results of this experiment promise to deliver a display with a huge range of painted interpretations of this debatable concept. Whether artists agree with the statement or not, visitors are promised to be intrigued and inspired by the artworks on display.​’

Bankside Gallery, Thames Riverside, 48 Hopton Street, London SE1 9JH

View works here.

Old Umbrella Shop, Hanbury Street. watercolour 2022.

The Mini Picture Show

Saturday afternoon, quayside, Tobermory, Isle of MullPeter Quinn RWS 2015

Bankside Gallery 

48 Hopton Street | London | SE1 9JH 3 December – 24 January
Works on a small scale by artists from the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. Contemporary watercolours and original prints, both framed and unframed, may be taken away immediately.

Illustrated : Saturday Afternoon, Quayside, Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Peter Quinn RWS, watercolour, 2015

Off the Wall

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Off the Wall
18 July – 23 August 2015

Contemporary watercolours and original prints by artists from the Royal Watercolour Society and Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers.

To celebrate summer all works are available to take away ‘off the wall’ immediately at point of sale.

[Lion Rock, Beach Bar, Jamaica watercolour 2015; Shop, Roseau, Dominica, West Indies, watercolour 2015]

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