Watercolours, drawings and prints by Peter Quinn RWS RSW
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
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.
Paintings and original prints from artists of the Royal Watercolour Society and Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers available to take away immediately on purchase.
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
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.
The Royal Watercolour Society annual Spring exhibition, featuring works in waterbased media on paper.
28 March – 26 April 2025
Bankside Gallery. Details here.
Thames Riverside
48 Hopton Street
London SE1 9JH
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
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
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*
Peter Quinn 