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

John Kingsley PAI RSW

John Kingsley was born in Glasgow in 1956 and studied Drawing and Painting at Glasgow School of Art in the 1970s. Since then he has had many successful shows both in London and throughout the UK and his his work is to be found in numerous collections around the world. Working in both...

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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