Tag Archives: Exhibition

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

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

RSW Open Annual Exhibition

The 144th Annual Open Exhibition

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).’

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.

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.