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.

Discerning Eye

Market Customer, Rodrigues. Peter Quinn, watercolour on paper 2024.

Delighted to be part of this exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London.

🗓️ The ING Discerning Eye exhibition will take place at the Mall Galleries from 15 to 24 November 2024, and online until 1 January 2025. 

👀 The exhibition was curated by tastemakers including art critic Will Gompertz, artist Adebanji Alade and interior designer Gabrielle Blackman

🖼️Out of 6,000+ entries, 685 artworks by 398 creatives were shortlisted for this prestigious show. 

🎨 The ING Discerning Eye showcases talent in a wide range of media – painting, drawing, sculpture, print, photography, video, textile, ceramic and more.

🕔 The exhibition is free to visit every day, 10am to 5pm from Friday 15 to Saturday 23 November, and 10am to 1pm on Sunday 24 November 2024.

More info here https://www.discerningeye.org/exhibition

Christmas Show

Gallagher and Turner, Specialist picture framer, Modern & contemporary art gallery in Newcastle

Group exhibition of works by Norman Ackroyd, Albert Irvin, Jill Campbell, Imogen Hawgood, Frances Law, Lucy May Schofield, Sarah Ross-Thompson, Peter Quinn, Neil Wood, Japanese Woodblock Prints, Silverkupe, Stephen Jeffrey and Ray Richardson.

Exhibition runs 8th November 2024 – January 2025

Pâtisserie, Left Bank, Paris, watercolour 2024 Peter Quinn

RWS Spring 2023

‘Art is the only way to run away without leaving home’– Twyla Sharp

For their Spring Exhibition, artists of the Royal Watercolour Society (RWS) interpret the theme and create a fascinating celebration of Home.
Home
Bankside Gallery

24 March – 22 April 2023

Salumeria, Fondamenta S Anna, Venice Peter Quinn RWS 2022

Now and Then

Now open at the Bankside Gallery, London.

Melbourne, corner of Brunswick Street and Rose Street, watercolour, 2021.

‘This exhibition of works by Members of the Royal Watercolour Society showcases paintings created in the very recent present alongside those at the earliest points in their career, and everything in between. The display promises to provide visitors with a rare insight into the development of each artist’s creative output, as well as the opportunity to take a piece of work home, whether from now or then.’

1st to 31st October.

Details here.

Melbourne Bottle Shop, watercolour, 1995.

Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2017

On Falkland Street Glasgow Watercolour on paper 102x50cmMy painting On Falkland Street, Glasgow is on show as one of the short-listed works.

THE 2017 EXHIBITION

The 2017 Exhibition will be on display at the Mall Galleries, London from 19 – 24 September 2017, before touring to a number of venues across the UK.

11 November – 23 December          Trowbridge Arts
13 January – 10 March 2018          Guildford House Gallery

More details on the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition website