Tag Archives: Watercolour

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.

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

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.