Exhibitions

Chelsea Physic Garden: A Year in the Life

12 - 30 August 2021 At the start of 2020, Chelsea Physic Garden invited selected artists from the Royal Watercolour Society and Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers to the Garden to take inspiration from, and respond... Read more

September Showcase

3 - 26 September 2021 This exhibition features an array of original and affordable artworks by contemporary painters and printmakers of the Royal Watercolour Society and Royal Society of Painter Printmakers. Curate your ideal collection... Read more

International Original Print Exhibition 2021

3 - 14 November 2021 The National Original Print Exhibition, established by the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE), is an international open submission competition celebrating the best of contemporary printmaking. Read more

Edward Hutchison

1 - 12 December 2021 As humans become increasingly urbanised, we lose our connection and understanding of landscape and nature. This lack of empathy with the natural environment leads, all too often, to crude decisions which impact both locally and on the planet as a whole.

These paintings attempt to portray the intimate life within soil, wild flowers and forests, and the abstracted forms stimulate interest and enquiry into our natural environment, that ultimately sustains us. Read more

Laurel Holloman: DEEP DIVE

19 - 30 January 2022 For her second solo exhibition at the Bankside Gallery, Laurel Holloman takes a deep dive into the exploration of water and land and our relationship and connection to the earth.
With her distinct use of colour and movement, Holloman maintains her signature style by creating two dimensional depth in her pieces, displaying muted darker tones which reseed into the painting and lighter tones that pop and dance on the canvas’s surface. Holloman continues to blur the line between abstraction and figurative work by using large bold brushstroke combined with delicate precisely placed smaller strokes. This a show not to be missed with paintings ranging in various sizes loaded with emotion.

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Ink Paintings by Weimin He, Liu Hongzhi & Wang Chunjie

29 June - 10 July 2022 Three artists who studied art together in the 1980s in northeast China, reunite to show a range of new works that speak eloquently to the universal experience of modernity, through depictions of mundane daily rituals, isolation and psychological angst. Dedicating themselves to expressive, contemporary approaches to ink painting, they offer distinct artistic responses towards the ever-changing world around them. Read more