RSA Upper Galleries Edinburgh, December 11th – 27th 2021 Free Entry – Tickets now available! Tickets Please book tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rsw-141st-annual-exhibition-tickets-200753879257 Booking is also available at the door. All exhibition details are subject to covid 19 restrictions.
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 exhibition, this is always a popular event, and with the …
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, on our social media, posters on the RSA railings and …
Our 8th Summer Exhibition in Dunoon Burgh Hall, has been a great success. The number of works and scale, fitted the space perfectly and looked great – many thanks to all of you that were able to give us work and to those who attended during the run of the exhibition! We are grateful to …
Don’t miss RSW member Michael Durning PPAI PAI RSW solo show at the Billcliffe Gallery at the end of the month. Its been several years since Michael has shown there, and with a completely new body of work its sure to be a great exhibition. “The broken monumentality of mountains continues to fascinate me. Their …
The power of a painting to spark the imagination was perfectly illustrated at our 137th Annual Exhibition when‘Toad Writes a Letter’ by Sylvia Von Hartmann RSW inspired several stories. Here is one of those tales by Norma Brown from writers group Words on Canvas. Toad’s Message The thing about toads is they are quite hard …
The RSW 7th Open Summer Exhibition is this year returning for the fourth time to the Meffan Museum & Art Gallery in Forfar. The exhibition, open to all watercolour artists in Scotland, is one of the key dates on the Scottish arts calendar and will show new works by some of Scotland’s leading artists alongside …
A ‘poetry sandwich’ is the perfect description for what happened earlier this year at our 137th Annual Exhibition when a painting inspired by a poem inspired a new poem. The painting ‘The last tooth of time’ by Anthea Gage RSW (below) was inspired by the poem “My father’s watch” written by the well known American …
Historically women artists have not received the same recognition as men and on International Women’s Day in 2018 we are delighted that over half of the artists exhibiting in the RSW 137th Open Annual Exhibition are women. This same parity can be seen in the number of women artists who are RSW Members and in …
This snapshot of three of the award winning paintings captures the diversity of subjects waiting to be experienced at the 137th Open Annual Exhibition. Artist Michael Durning RSW PPAI PAI who won the Walter Scott Award for ‘River Gods of the Damnonii’ (below) explains “It is a reference to the ancient people that lived on Dumbarton Rock …