Selected works from the RWS Open Exhibition 2025

RWS Open
 Exhibition
Bankside Gallery, London

Ends March 23rd

The annual RWS Open competition and exhibition is open to any non RWS member who would like to enter work produced using water-based media. The Bankside Gallery exhibition is therefore an excellent opportunity to get a sense of where contemporary water-based painting is today.

Congratulations to all the prize winners who are listed online. Here is my pick from the 100+ selected works on show.


Kelly McCallum
Daisy Cook
Wilfrid Wood (more goal posts in painting here)
Martha Zmpounou on either side of Lucy Gogoliuk
R&F Mo
Benjamin Sullivan
Alex Dipple
Aidan Potts
Drea Cohane either side of Wolfgang Woerner
Greg Becker