Past Exhibitions

RWS Open Exhibition

The RWS Open Exhibition, previously called '21st Century Watercolour', is an exhibition of successful entries to the 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.

Prizewinners

Each year the most outstanding of the successful entries are awarded prizes by the Royal Watercolour Society and other companies and businesses. Congratulations to this year's prize winners:

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Purchase Prize
Fabrication I by Bella Easton
Fabrication II by Bella Easton
The Drain by Robin Storey 

St Cuthbert’s Mill Prize
1st Prize: Mending Orange Nets Against Black Sheds by Judith Dobie
2nd Prize: Quayside, Newcastle by Janet Kenyon
3rd Prize : L’Arret Lazarre, Paris by Peter Blodau

Winsor and Newton Prize
1st Prize: Traveller by Bob Ballard
2nd Prize: The Bakehouse, Vienna by James Cowan
3rd Prize: Cow III by Celia Lewis

Daler Rowney Prize
Wellington College by Susanne Du Toit

The Artist Prize – an article in future issue of The Artist Magazine
Autumn by Shanti Panchall

Royal Watercolour Society Award
Genie by Jonathan Huxley

David Gluck Award
The Anniversary II by John McKerrell

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by Cameron Galt