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.
139th Open Annual Exhibition 2019/20
Awards:
The W. Gordon Smith and Mrs Jay Gordonsmith Award £4,000 (£2000 each artist)
Ann Ross RSW ‘Hedgerow Visitor’ Cat No 23
Gregor Smith RSW ‘St John’s Head, Hoy’ Cat No 76
The Walter Scott Award £2,000 and purchase of the winning work
Simon Laurie RSW ‘Ice Cap’ Cat No 146
Alexander Graham Munro Travel Award £3,000 to an artist under 30yrs
Chloe Colquhoun ‘Out of Sight, Out of Mind’ Cat No 130
Eat and Drink Italy Purchase Award
Michael Clark RSW PAI ‘Waiter, Paris, October’ Cat No 74
The Alison Prosser Award £500
Anne Skinner ‘Winter Mist’ Cat No 20
John Busby Award £500
George Gilbert RSW ‘The Drying Green’ Cat No 4
RSW Council Award £500
Donald Paterson RSW ‘Blues, Wester Ross, Winter’ Cat No 145
House for an Art Lover Exhibition in Art Lover’s Café Gallery and £500
Isla Valentine Wade ‘My Passion is Dead’ Cat No 193
Scottish Artists’ Benevolent Association £300
Christopher Brook ‘Storm Vessel’ Cat No 205
RSW New Graduate Award £300
Atticus Tayar ‘Birch Trees, in Winter’ Cat No 212
The Turcan Connell Award £250
Jean Hill ‘Winter Fog in the Den’ Cat No 102
Sir William Gillies Award £250
Ian Kinnear RSW ‘Spring Planting’ Cat No 107
May Marshall Brown Award £250
Gillian Melville ‘These are a few of my favourite things’ Cat No 29
John Gray Award £200
Carol Dewart RSW PAI ‘The Good Seed on the Land’ Cat No 51
Two RSW Watermark Awards £50 each
Jenny Handley ‘Little Bouquet’ Cat No 44
Louise Day ‘Flow 2’ Cat No 154
The Scottish Arts Club Award Solo Exhibition and 2 years membership
Sylvia Von Hartmann RSW ‘There it is, ready for Paradise’ Cat No 28
Dumfries House Residences Award
Liz Myhill RSW
Jackie Stevenson RSW