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.

Coming Soon! Our exhibition schedule for 2020

The 9th Summer Open Exhibition will be held at the Lillie Art Gallery in July, with our Annual Open Exhibition back that the RSA in December 2020, more information coming soon!

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

James H Fairgrieve RSA RSW

James H Fairgrieve was born in Prestonpans, East Lothian in 1944. He is married with three children and seven grandchildren, living in the Scottish Borders. He is one of Scotland’s leading realist painters. He studied at Edinburgh College of Art between 1962-68, then went on to teach there...

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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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The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour

2 days ago

#throwbackthursday of catalogues from the 1920s 30s and 40s from the RSW archives.
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Meeting our artists. June Carey RSW.

I would describe my work as figurative and autobiographical. It deals with my personal thoughts and feelings, some of which are subconscious. I usually don't know what my pictures are about until they are finished. I have a need to work in various media, which includes painting, pastel drawing, printmaking and working in three dimensions.

My images are usually of a solitary human being who is unable to speak. I therefore have to convey his/her thoughts using a symbolic language. This sometimes takes the form of written words and images on the body. I try to make these thoughts visible, which are of course, invisible. Whilst I am trying to explain to the viewer what the picture is about, I am also trying to conceal part of this message. For whatever reason, it is important to me that something is still hidden, left unsaid.

Foreign travel always inspires new work. Visiting countries such as Mexico, India, Spain, Indonesia, Bali, Quebec, Italy, Cyprus, Poland and most recently Greece, offers me a never ending source of rich ideas to tap into.

2014 Autobiography ‘The Art of June Carey, Seeing Through the Dreams’ Available at the Royal Scottish Academy & Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh: Waterstones Book Shop: Selected Scottish Art Galleries: “The Corner Book Shop” Rome.
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The work of June Carey RSW, The Night Pool, features as the poster artwork for the Society of Women Artists. Details to enter are on the poster and on their website. June's painting won the Sennelier Award in their last exhibition.
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Here is an update from Louise Day, Winner of the RSW Watermark Awards at the Annual Exhibition.

This year was my first year of submitting work for the RSW Annual exhibition. I was very happy that my work was accepted and also to receive a Watermark award. It was also the first time I had exhibited my work in Edinburgh and it was exciting to see it displayed in the RSA Gallery. I love the translucency of watercolour, a quality which I explore in my paintings, largely inspired by the coast and my collection of beach finds. In the last few months I have started to work in a lovely new studio in my garden, overlooking Loch Fyne. I will be opening my studio to visitors for Cowal Open Studios weekend from 25th to 28th September. I also having a month long exhibition at Tighnabruaich Gallery, starting at the end of June.

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