Royal Watercolour Society 2011 Open Exhibition.

The Royal Watercolour Society.

My RWS open exhibition paintings, (not shown on this site), have sold. They were on exhibition at Bankside Gallery, next to the Tate Modern, London. The show closed March 10th 2011.

My demonstation painting done during an afternoon with fellow painters in East Sussex.
See image title "Derbyn's Brook"
The society, based at St Leonards near Hastings, is a hundred years old, and boasts some very good painters. They had six of their own paintings on display, any one of which would not have looked out of place in a prestigious London gallery. They tell me they have a recent policy of inviting a newer generation of artists, so I strongly suggested they get Hashim Akib down there.

The New Bosham Group is so new it hasn't even got a name yet.

It has just run its first event. These are among the quickest and most competent painters I have come across as a group. Janet Warton was a prime mover and I hope they keep going. These artists had no trouble at all getting to grips with a marine sunset. The First meeting was at the West Stoke Hall in early February.

This marks the completion of the Venice project for me, a book with Search Press out this month, and step by step watercolour paintings of Venice for TV programs to be broadcast later this year. Thanks to Gary Templeman, Ash Knight, and all at Teaching Art. John Hope Hawkins started it all more than 30 years ago when he filmed a program with the artist Alwyn Crawshaw. I don't think anyone does it better.