Awards

Each year at the annual Exhibition the RSW offers encouragement to artists of all ages, both young and established, with its list of generous financial awards.

These awards reflect a commitment by the Society to promote and encourage member and non-member artists working in waterbased media.

142nd Open Annual Exhibition 2023 - Awards

The W. Gordon Smith and Mrs Jay Gordonsmith Award

£4,000 (£2000 each artist)

Claire Harkess RSW ‘Winter Song’ Cat No 44

Margaret L Smyth RSW ‘Flying Over Tuscany’ Cat No 159

Alison Prosser Award

£500

Chris Bushe RSW ‘Rain Clouds over Mull and Sunshine on Iona’ Cat No 67

Alexander Graham Munro Travel Award

£3,000 to an artist under 30yrs

Dominik Zarzycki ‘When Rannoch Moor Swings’ Cat No 119

RSW Council Award

£500

Jane Askey ‘Lights on in the Afternoon’ Cat No 172

John Busby Award

£500

Peter Davis ‘Mirkin’ Cat No 293

Scottish Artists Benevolent Association

£300

Peter Graham ‘Morning, Central Park’ Cat No 129

Sir William Gillies Award 

£250

Helen L Robertson ‘Translucent Tide’ Cat No 115

Turcan Connell Award

£250

Christopher Brook ‘Quilt Series – Whispers’ Cat No 235

May Marshall Brown Award 

£250

Robin Paine ‘A Forsythia bush in Flower’ Cat No 65

John Gray Award

£200

Iain Ritchie RSW ‘The Ornithologist’ Cat No 49

Two RSW Watermark Awards 

£50 each

Susan Macintosh ‘Early Rain North Uist’ Cat No 187

Liz Myhill RSW ‘Sudden Hailstorm’ Cat No 37

The Scottish Arts Club Award Award

Solo Exhibition and 2 years Membership

Morag Muir RSW PAI ‘Dundee Window’ Cat No 62

Brien & Brown Award 

£500 framing voucher

Amy Dennis ‘East Coast 1’ Cat No 173