Thank you for your interest in becoming an Associate Member of the RWS. Applications for 2024 are now closed but will reopen again in spring 2025.
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Royal Watercolour Society artists are elected on merit by the current Membership - a tradition dating back to the Society's foundation over 200 years ago. Any professional artist working in water-based media may apply. Our Members' work is extremely varied, both in style and subject matter, and includes paintings in gouache, acrylic, pen and ink and watercolour mixed media on paper.
If elected, you will enjoy full Membership benefits, including two major group exhibitions and two joint exhibitions with the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers at Bankside Gallery each year, as well as other opportunities to exhibit and sell your work through Bankside Gallery, our new RWS Gallery at Whitcomb Street, and other venues. Your work will be publicised through the Society’s social media, and there are opportunities to run courses, have your work used for publicity, on merchandise, and to become involved in Society activities.
