The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour

Angus McEwan RSW AWI RWS RGI - The Beating Heart of China

The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour

Michael Durning PPAI RSW PAI - River Gods of the Damnonii

The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour

Claire Harkess RSW - A Bevy of Swans

The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour

Anthea Gage RSW 'The Last Tooth of Time'

The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour

Jim Dunbar PRSW RWS RGI - Old Cobbles, Bodin

The RSW is the only Society dedicated to promoting watercolour painting in Scotland.

Our exhibition schedule for 2020

The 9th Summer Open Exhibition will be held at the Lillie Art Gallery later this year. Subject to developments in the covid-19 situation.

We pride ourselves on our distinguished history and in our forward looking approach to encouraging watercolour painting. Our annual open winter and summer exhibitions are key dates on the Scottish arts calendar bringing together leading and emerging Scottish artists.

We are an artist led, Scottish charity and are delighted and honoured that HRH The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay is our Royal Patron.

Featured artist

Douglas Davies RSW

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From the blog

Words on Canvas
February 3, 2020
The 139th Open Annual Exhibition has now closed to great success, with great visitor figures and some really great press coverage! We were very happy to welcome back the Words on Canvas poetry group for a standing room only event during the run of the …read more
139th Open Annual Exhibition
August 19, 2019
Preparations are well underway for the 139th Open Annual Exhibition. Dates have been confirmed. Paperwork is almost ready…..we have a catalogue image! Angus McEwan RSW AWI RWS RGI has given us ‘The Beating Heart of China’. This image will appear in most of our publicity, …read more

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James McNeill Whistler was an honorary member of the RSW and exhibited in our Annual Exhibitions. Here is his watercolour pallette.

Palette
The Whistler Estate, presented by Rosalind Birnie Philip, 1935

This small folding metal palette was easy to carry and use in situ. All Whistler needed was a brush and water to activate the watercolour paint laid out on the palette. The colour range is limited but shows various blues, yellows and reds, as well as the more opaque Chinese white. Chinese white, a colour brought onto the market by Winsor & Newton, was promoted by the influential writer, John Ruskin, in his Elements of Drawing. Ruskin strongly favoured using both transparent and opaque techniques as 'body colour is in a sketch, infinitely liker nature than transparent colour.' GLAHA 54148

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Aine Divine RSW

A little watercolour self portrait today, video of it taking shape will be posted later today x

Here is a link to Aine's great Youtube channel.

m.youtube.com/user/AineDivinePaintings
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From our archives. Charles James Lauder RSW died aged 79 in 1920 having been a member since February 1899. artuk.org/discover/artists/lauder-charles-james-18411920 ... See MoreSee Less

From our archives. Charles James Lauder RSW died aged 79 in 1920 having been a member since February 1899. https://artuk.org/discover/artists/lauder-charles-james-18411920

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Deep in the archives of the RSW we find that the Prime Minister, The Right Honourable Ramsay MacDonald was elected Honourary Membership in 1934. His address in the archive is No. 10 Downing Street!!

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsay_MacDonald

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