Upcoming
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Mini Picture Show
6 Dec 2024 - 26 Jan 2025 Bankside Gallery The annual exhibition by members of the Royal Watercolour Society and Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers celebrating art on a small scale. Private View Thursday 5th December 6 - 8pm, all... Read more -
A Christmas Exhibition in London
Featuring Paintings by Artists of The Minster Collection 11 - 14 Dec 2024 RWS Gallery The Minster Gallery presents A Christmas Exhibition in London featuring works inspired by travels and the sea by over 30 well-known, established professional Artists from the UK and abroad, including... Read more
Past
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Lost and Found
Alison Friend 22 Nov - 1 Dec 2024 RWS Gallery The Gallery, Holt is thrilled to announce a second major solo show for British realist Alison Friend, but this time they are taking Alison to London! A British realist with... Read more -
Jim Murray
Creatures of Light 15 - 17 Nov 2024 RWS Gallery British actor, artist and activist Jim Murray presents a major new collection of paintings that aim to raise awareness of the plight of endangered wild Atlantic salmon in rivers across... Read more -
Dazzle
The Major Contemporary Jewellery Exhibition 30 Oct - 3 Nov 2024 RWS Gallery Dazzle, the major annual contemporary jewellery exhibition is back in London and in a new venue at the Royal Watercolour Society Gallery. Conceived in 1981 Dazzle is... Read more
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Common Ground
Frances Hatch, Caroline McAdam Clark, Robin Richmond & Linda Saul 10 - 20 Oct 2024 RWS Gallery Four friends. Four women. Four voices. Four sensibilities. Four artists. Four members of the Royal Watercolour Society whose work speaks to each other across the walls of this beautiful new... Read more -
RWS Autumn
Celebrating 220 years of the Royal Watercolour Society 4 Oct - 2 Nov 2024 Bankside Gallery The Royal Watercolour Society had its beginnings in a coffee house on Oxford Street in November 1804. Today, almost 220 year later we're proud to say that the RWS is... Read more -
Times of the Day
Lucy Marks 7 - 15 Sep 2024 RWS Gallery Times of the Day is a new solo exhibition by Lucy Marks which will be presented in September 2024 in the RWS Gallery. Lucy will be exhibiting both her en... Read more
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Summer at Bankside Gallery
9 Aug - 8 Sep 2024 Bankside Gallery Whether you’re an art admirer, collector, or newbie Summer at Bankside Gallery is guaranteed to inspire. For this annual exhibition the RWS team up with the Royal Society of Painter... Read more -
Avidyā? Vidyā?
Presented by The Oneness Gallery 6 - 11 Jul 2024 RWS Gallery “Avidyā? Vidyā?” is Avidyā’s debut solo exhibition. A bridge between the depths of suffering and the heights of love. It's a whispered invitation to awaken, to heal, and to remember... Read more -
An Exhibition of Watercolour from Members of the RWS
Linden Hall Studio 6 Jul - 17 Aug 2024 This Summer, the RWS will be exhibiting outside of London, at what many call Kent’s most beautiful gallery, Linden Hall Studios. The gallery shows many RWS Members as well as... Read more
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Thurston Laidlaw Shoosmith
An Artist for all Seasons 14 - 16 Jun 2024 RWS Gallery Thurston Laidlaw Shoosmith (1865-1933) An Artist for All Seasons The artist was known as a quiet and reserved man, a vegetarian and non-smoker, who enjoyed walks in the countryside as... Read more -
Almost Blue
Presented by Oliver Projects 6 - 9 Jun 2024 RWS Gallery Launched in 2019, Oliver Projects is a nomadic gallery and online shop based in south east London. The gallery has presented exhibitions in a variety of spaces, often working in... Read more -
Be Part of Art 3
Online art auction raising funds for the RWS 30 May - 2 Jun 2024 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.... Read more
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Little London Art Fair
15 - 19 May 2024 RWS Gallery A new, independent, gallery-led, boutique art fair in London Please note the preview event on 15th May is a ticketed event with limited availability. To get your free ticket please... Read more -
Transparency
29 Mar - 27 Apr 2024 Bankside Gallery Transparency is the defining trait that renders watercolour such a demanding medium. While some artists cherish this quality for its capacity to impart freshness and lightness, others consider it to... Read more -
WilkinsonEyre at 40
21 - 28 Mar 2024 RWS Gallery This exhibition commemorates the 40th Anniversary of WilkinsonEyre, the architectural practice founded in London by Chris Wilkinson and Jim Eyre. Both founders began working together with the shared belief that... Read more
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RWS Open
8 - 24 Mar 2024 Bankside Gallery Formerly known as the Contemporary Watercolour Competition (among many other names during the exhibition's 50+ year history), the RWS Open is the largest open-submission water-media exhibition in the world, attracting... Read more -
Mini Picture Show
8 Dec 2023 - 1 Feb 2024 Bankside Gallery Affordable works on a small scale by artists from the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers. Contemporary watercolours and original prints, both framed and unframed, may... Read more -
Risk
6 Oct - 4 Nov 2023 Bankside Gallery Making pictures always contains risk. Anything the hand does in making a painting is subject to slippage. Even that most laborious and derided business of tracing a drawing onto paper... Read more
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Summer at Bankside Gallery
11 Aug - 10 Sep 2023 Bankside Gallery Whether you’re an art admirer, collector, or newbie Summer at Bankside Gallery is guaranteed to inspire. For this annual exhibition the RWS team up with the Royal Society of Painter... Read more -
RWS NOW
The inaugural exhibition at the new RWS Gallery at Whitcomb Street 7 - 21 Jun 2023 RWS Gallery We are thrilled to announce the inaugural exhibition at the brand new RWS Gallery at Whitcomb Street. The first official Royal Watercolour Society exhibition (since the almost year-long soft launch)... Read more -
Home
Bankside Gallery 24 Mar - 22 Apr 2023 Bankside Gallery '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... Read more
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Light and Colour
8 - 19 Mar 2023 RWS Gallery Light and Colour is a collection of paintings by RWS artist Sophie Knight, which concentrate on light in all of its forms. From artificial street lights at night, light reflected... Read more -
RWS Open
3 - 19 Mar 2023 Bankside Gallery Formerly known as the Contemporary Watercolour Competition (among many other names during the exhibition's 50+ year history), the RWS Open is the largest open-submission water-media exhibition in the world, attracting... Read more -
Mini Picture Show
9 Dec 2022 - 29 Jan 2023 Bankside Gallery Affordable works on a small scale by artists from the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers. Contemporary watercolours and original prints, both framed and unframed, may... Read more
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Light Seeking Light
Chloe Fremantle & Peter Blegvad 1 - 12 Nov 2022 RWS Gallery Light Seeking Light is a joint exhibition featuring the work of husband and wife artists, Chloe Fremantle and Peter Blegvad. The exhibition is curated by Jenny Blyth Fine Art. There... Read more -
Be Part of Art 2
RWS Gallery at Whitcomb Street 13 - 16 Oct 2022 RWS Gallery It's your chance to be part of art again! Continuing with our fundraising efforts for the new RWS Gallery at Whitcomb Street we're bringing you part 2 of the hugely... Read more -
Less is More
7 Oct - 5 Nov 2022 Bankside Gallery Less is more, more or less... For their annual Autumn exhibition at Bankside Gallery, artists of the Royal Watercolour Society are exploring the notion of 'less is more'. But have... Read more
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Lucy Marks: Constable's Walks
RWS Gallery at Whitcomb Street 30 Aug - 10 Sep 2022 RWS Gallery Constable’s Walks is a brand-new body of work inspired by the three walks John Constable regularly took outside Brighton, when he lived there between 1824 and 1828. The exhibition showcases... Read more -
Summer at Bankside Gallery
Bankside Gallery 5 Aug - 11 Sep 2022 Bankside Gallery Starting an art collection? Look no further than the Bankside Gallery Summer Exhibition . All artworks are original pieces by contemporary painters and printmakers of the Royal Watercolour Society and... Read more -
David Remfry: Watercolour
RWS Gallery at Whitcomb Street 12 May - 30 Jul 2022 RWS Gallery The inaugural exhibition at the new Royal Watercolour Society Gallery in Whitcomb Street, London will be a retrospective of work by David Remfry MBE RA RWS, as he celebrates his... Read more
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Reflections
25 Mar - 24 Apr 2022 Bankside Gallery On the year of the Platinum Jubilee of their Patron, artists of the Royal Watercolour Society take a look back on the last 70 years. From the personal events of... Read more -
Art Fundraiser in aid of Ukraine
16 - 23 Mar 2022 Bankside Gallery In response to the horrific events unfolding in Ukraine, Bankside Gallery have launched an online art fundraiser with 100% of the proceeds going to the Disasters Emergency Committee's Ukraine Humanitarian... Read more -
RWS Open
4 - 20 Mar 2022 Bankside Gallery Following a year's break due to the pandemic, the Royal Watercolour Society are excited to announce the return of our annual open submission exhibition. Formerly known as the Contemporary Watercolour... Read more
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Mini Picture Show
3 Dec 2021 - 30 Jan 2022 Affordable works on a small scale by artists from the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers. Contemporary watercolours and original prints, both framed and unframed, may... Read more -
Now & Then
1 - 31 Oct 2021 Bankside Gallery Have you ever visited a retrospective exhibition of a particular artist and been surprised at how their early works differ so greatly to the most recent pieces you're familiar with?... Read more