RSW – The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour

The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour

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

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

David Forster RSW

David Forster’s intensely wrought landscape paintings refer to the traditions of the 18th and 19th centuries. Though the scenes depicted are topographically correct, light and colour are altered to create a fictionalised reality, that nonetheless conveys the authority of photo realist document. By...

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From the blog

Words on Canvas
November 5, 2018
Poet: Doris Dickson Artist: Anda Paterson The Portuguese Bus Stop LIFESTYLES Sheila’s eyes lit up as she wandered round the RSW annual exhibition and arrived at exhibit No. 100 – ‘The Portuguese Bus Stop’. That’s got to be an Anda Paterson, she thought! She …read more
Words on Canvas
November 5, 2018
During our last Annual Exhibition members of the poetry group Words on Canvas came along to view the art works and responded in poetry. There should have been an evening of both genres of artists coming together the read the poetry and exchange thoughts on …read more