Introducing...

✨Tessa Pearson ✨

Elected ARWS 2023

Magic Cactus Garden
by Tessa Pearson ARWS
watercolour
30 x 33cm

Introducing...

✨ Davina Jackson ✨

Elected ARWS 2023

Before Lockdown
by Davina Jackson ARWS
watercolour, gouache & pencil
36 x 38cm

Introducing...

✨ Richard Elliott ✨

Elected ARWS 2023

Concrete Steps, Ramsgate
by Richard Elliott ARWS
watercolour mounted to board
120 x 120cm

✨ The RWS is thrilled to announce four newly elected Associate Members! ✨

Artists Richard Elliott, Davina Jackson, Tessa Pearson & Yellon Ran Huang were elected through the annual RWS elections last week 🗳️

Stay tuned to discover more about each artist and their work!

WilkinsonEyre's designs for the new Royal Watercolour Society Whitcomb gallery successfully reimagines the Victorian wine vaults and dilapidated ground floor into a refined contemporary home for the RWS, used for exhibitions, tuition and lectures, and events.

wilkinsoneyre.com/news/rws-galle…

It's the last day to see the inaugural exhibition RWS NOW at our brand new RWS Gallery! ✨

We'd like to say a massive thank you to our visitors, members, donors, supporters and staff for making it such a success.

We look forward to welcoming you again soon!

We loved visiting Royal Watercolour Society to see RWS NOW – marking the welcome return to their historic gallery on Whitcomb Street! 🎉

📍 3 – 5 Whitcomb Street, WC2H 7HA
🗓 Until 21 June 2023

More info: bit.ly/3qIzcKN

#ArtOfLondon #RoyalWatercolourSociety

✨ Today is the last weekend to catch the inaugural exhibition at our brand new RWS Gallery at Whitcomb Street! ✨

Running until the 21st of June
Open Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 5pm

Embankment
by Jim Hunter VPRWS
watercolour & acrylic
40 x 50cm

Would you like to win one of our catalogues for RWS NOW?!

All you have to do is go to our Instagram stories and subscribe to our emailing list...NOW!

10 lucky winners will be randomly selected and sent a catalogue in the post.

UK applicants only.

Good luck!

✨ WE’RE OPEN ✨

Come and see the inaugural exhibition at the new RWS Gallery at Whitcomb Street!
Running for 2 weeks from the 7th to the 21st June
Open Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 5pm

Night Path
by Barbara Rae RA
mixed media
108 x 109cm

Would you like to become an Associate Member of the Royal Watercolour Society?

Applications are now open!

Deadline: 11.59pm 2nd of June

Apply here: royalwatercoloursociety.co.uk/election/

✨ Many congratulations to Charles Williams, the new President of the Royal Watercolour Society! ✨

First elected Associate in 2007, Charles became a Full Member a few years later. Mainly a painter, he works in oil, watercolour, bronze, ceramics and graphic mediums.

The end of an era! 😭

Big Announcement: RWS NOW

We are thrilled to announce the inaugural exhibition at the brand new RWS Gallery at Whitcomb Street. The exhibition will commemorate the RWS’s return to the gallery they were based at around 200 years ago.

royalwatercoloursociety.co.uk/rws-now

Don’t miss the chance to meet the artists behind the paintings in our Home exhibition at @banksidegallery!

Artists will be showing their materials, sketchbooks and works in progress.

~ Free drop- in sessions will be happening every weekend during Home from 1-3pm! ~

This years RWS Spring Exhibition is a captivating array of works exploring the theme of 'Home'.

Here you can view Royal Watercolour Society artists capture the warmth and charm of home so brilliantly.

~ Running at @banksidegallery until the 22nd April and open daily 11-6pm ~

The RWS Spring Exhibition 'Home' opens today at @banksidegallery!

For our Spring Exhibition, artists of the Royal Watercolour Society have created a fascinating array of works celebrating the theme of 'Home'.

Running from the 24th of March - 22nd of April

Open daily 11-6pm

Happy #FirstDayofSpring ! 🌷 we've been so thrilled by every glimpse of Spring creeping in around #BanksideGallery over the past weeks...

Bankside Gallery will be closed this week while we prepare for the RWS Spring Exhibition: Home, opening on Friday 🥳

banksidegallery.com/exhibitions/94…

✨ So the RWS Open private view last night was a roaring success! What a wonderful evening meeting the exhibiting artists✨

The RWS Open exhibition opens today at @banksidegallery!

Showcasing over 150 works from established & emerging artists working in water-based media.

Bankside Gallery is closed this week while we prepare for the RWS Open, opening on Friday ✨ if you can't wait until then, the artworks are available to browse online 🥳
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royalwatercoloursociety.co.uk/exhibitions/54…⁠
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Image: Paul Cox, 'Catedral de la Asuncion Cuernavaca Mexico', £1850 framed