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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

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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

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.

Farmacia, Venice, watercolour on paper, 2024.


The exhibition officially opens on Friday 6 December, but will be open late on Thursday 5 December between 6-8pm.

Details 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.

Chelsea Physic Garden: Celebrating 350 Years in Paint and Print

8 – 25 June 2023

Linnaeus, Peter Quinn RWS, watercolour

Chelsea Physic Garden: 350 Years in Paint and Print is an exhibition of works by selected artists of the Royal Watercolour Society (RWS) and Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE) marking the 350th anniversary of Chelsea Physic Garden.

Over the past year, selected RWS and RE artists have had access to the garden to be able to study, record and document it throughout the changing seasons. The resulting works will make for a unique and vibrant exhibition at Bankside Gallery celebrating the history and significance of London’s oldest botanic garden.

Details here

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