The Royal Watercolour Society annual Spring exhibition, featuring works in waterbased media on paper. This year’s theme is ‘Transparency’.
29 March – 27 April 2024
Thames Riverside
48 Hopton Street
London SE1 9JH
Transparency
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RISK
Risk
Bankside Gallery | until 4th November
Anything the hand does in making a painting is subject to slippage. Even that most laborious business of tracing a drawing onto paper to fill it in might involve a slip, a smudge, an incoherent line. People talk about improvisation and invention and happy accidents and deliberate mistakes when they talk about painting, and what they’re talking about is this gap between eye, hand and materials. Painting’s a risky business!
Final week artwork purchases from this exhibition are eligible for a 10% discount*
Summer at Bankside Gallery 2023
11 August – 10 September 2023
Click here to browse the art works.
All artworks are original pieces by contemporary painters and printmakers of the Royal Watercolour Society and Royal Society of Painter Printmakers.
Chelsea Physic Garden: Celebrating 350 Years in Paint and Print
8 – 25 June 2023
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.
RWS Now
RWS NOW The inaugural exhibition at the new RWS Gallery at Whitcomb Street
7 – 21 June 2023
Spread across both of the newly renovated ground and lower-ground gallery spaces, RWS NOW will feature original artworks in water-based media by almost every present day artist Member, Associate, Guest and Honorary Member of the RWS. This extraordinary display of work will include pieces by artists such as Barbara Rae, David Remfry, and Diana Armfield to name just a few.
The first official Royal Watercolour Society exhibition (since the almost year-long soft launch) will commemorate the RWS’s return to the gallery they were based at around 200 years ago.
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
Mini Picture Show
Bankside Gallery, London. Closing soon.
Details here
Watercolour: Fitzroy Shops, Melbourne. Peter Quinn RWS.
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
LONDON LIVES
London Lives
Opening this Thursday | 30 June – 10 July
Join us in celebrating London with this vibrant exhibition of paintings and original prints by members of the Royal Watercolour Society and Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers inspired by ‘The Big Smoke’.
Bankside Gallery
Gallery of the Royal Watercolour Society
& the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers
Thames Riverside
48 Hopton Street
London
SE1 9JH
Open daily 11am – 6pm
Admission Free
REFLECTIONS: Royal Watercolour Society Spring Exhibition
Bankside Gallery, 25 March – 24 April 2022
Free admission | No booking required | Open daily 11am-6pm
In the Platinum Jubilee Year of their Patron, artists of the Royal Watercolour Society take a look back over the last 70 years. From the personal events of their own lives, to the greater goings on around the globe, this exhibition will serve as a reflection on this significant period in history, as well as a celebration of HM The Queen’s 70 years on the throne.
Peter Quinn 