Past Events

RWS Open Competition

The RWS Open Competition, previously called 21st Century Watercolour, is an annual open painting competition organised by the Royal Watercolour Society. The aim of the competition is to encourage innovation in the use of water-based media on paper and to stimulate fresh approaches to what are considered to be watercolour’s traditional strengths.

Artists are invited to submit up to three framed, glazed water-based paintings on paper. Work is selected by a panel of judges. In previous years numerous prizes, worth in excess of £10,000, have been kindly donated by various individuals and organisations including the Royal Watercolour Society, St. Cuthbert’s Mill, Baker Tilly, Winsor and Newton and Elizabeth Scott-Moore Fund.

The deadline for the 2010 competition has now passed.

An exhibition of successful entries will be held at Bankside Gallery from 19th February - 11th March 2010.