Contemporary Watercolour Paradigm - Exhibitions Inward London

Lovers of watercolour ikon are inward for a treat! From tomorrow you lot tin see 2 major exhibitions of watercolour ikon inward London past times 2 of the oldest watercolour societies inward the world.

The Royal Watercolour Society has its Spring Exhibition "Marking Time" at the Bankside Gallery (until 26 Apr 2014). To grade the outbreak of WW1, the exhibition includes drawings, sketches together with paintings from the RWS Archive of past times Members’ country of war experiences recorded inward the field. These include David Jones’ drawings made inward the trenches, equally good equally images from other conflicts.
The Annual Exhibition of the Royal Institute of Painters inward Water Colours has its Private View tomorrow together with opens to Blue Planet at the Mall Galleries on sec Apr until 19th Apr 2014. The exhibition includes a topic on Gardens together with Gardening.

I recommend visits to both for those who tin larn to London. For those of you lot who can't....

Two virtual exhibitions

You tin run across both exhibitions online if you're unable to larn to London. However do comport inward heed that online exhibitions are non so adept at giving you lot a truthful feel of size - equally good which the paintings ever await amend inward person.

selection from the online exhibition of
the Spring Exhibition of the Royal Watercolour Society

This is the online exhibition of The Royal Institute of Painters inward Water Colours
This is the online exhbition of The Royal Watercolour Society - which also runs inward slideshow format. It doesn't include all 392 images inward the exhibition. Images are typically those of members.

selection from the online exhibition of
the Annual Exhibition of the Royal Institute of Painters inward Water Colours

Below I comment on:

the images together with how they are displayed
events running during the class of both exhibitions

Some comments almost images together with software

One of the curious aspects of both galleries is that neither would be if it were non for the fine art societies they support.

Yet at the same fourth dimension both demand to practise the same character command over images together with their display equally whatever conventional commercial gallery. In my view, the galleries' purpose is to ensure that ALL the images position on display online are peak character AND that the software industrial plant easily for viewers

Royal Watercolour Society (website run past times Bankside Gallery)

The online exhibition offers you lot the alternative of paging through the online images or a slideshow.

On my 27" iMac screen, some of the images during the slideshow were vivid piece others were genuinely badly photographed together with dreadfully pixelated. Clearly images are real dissimilar sizes together with quite belike real dissimilar dpi.

It strikes me that members of the RWS demand to handle a minimum together with maximum size of digital paradigm together with dpi for the images of paintings for their online exhibitions together with and so optimise their online display for that. To my heed this is a thing where the Gallery should measuring inward together with provide

clear guidance to artists almost how to accomplish amend digital images of their paintings
a character command "cut off" which agency pitiful images do non become online.

That doesn't hateful they don't appear inward the exhibition. Just that the beingness of pitiful images online won't hateful that people halt viewing together with thus those artists whose images appear farther on don't lose viewers because 1 creative somebody has non nevertheless mastered the fine art of digital images. It's a real of import betoken together with 1 I'd experience real strongly almost if I was an exhibiting artist.

One real uncomplicated solution is to render a photography service at terms for the artists who neglect to submit character images.

Home page of the website of the Royal Watercolour Society
includes a prominent together with visual link to the online display together with dates of the exhibition

Royal Institute of Painters inward Water Colours (online exhibition website run past times Mall Galleries)

In a lot of ways the RI's online exhibition display on the http://mallgalleries-shows.com website is real sophisticated. You tin scroll downwards the page together with run across cropped images of all the paintings inward the exhibition.

However in that place are problems

too many clicks are required to run across large images inward sequence. I couldn't larn the website to generate a slideshow - together with nevertheless I experience certain I've viewed 1 inward the past times on this site.
a fighting to a greater extent than guidance equally to what the icons do would hold upward useful. I wonder exactly how many people genuinely click through to the large paradigm view?

The RI also needs to attend to its ain website. While it has usefully position a clear link to the online exhibition high on the habitation page of its ain website (run past times the RI), it's failed to position anything at all on the Exhibition Page except the dates of the exhibition. So no sample images together with no link to the online exhibition - together with no images at all on the Home Page either!

In an historic menstruation where the visual paradigm is the way nosotros navigate to a greater extent than or less social media, I'm afraid I exactly don't 'get' fine art societies that don't utilization their artists' function to promote their activities!

Home Page of the RI website - tedious colours together with no pictures.
In my reckon this website needs a radical makeover.

Events during RI Exhibition

You tin detect more details of Talks together with Courses on the RWS website

Talks

2 Apr - Talk: Rebels, Vorticists together with Futurists: Young British Artists inward the Great War
10 Apr - Talk: David Jones inward the First World War
24 Apr - Talk: Reinventing the Art of Watercolour: Eric Ravilious together with his Contemporaries

Workshops

5 Apr - Meet the Artists addition Turner: Experimenting alongside Wet-on-Wet Techniques (Additional date) Tutor: Sophie Knight RWS
9 Apr - Family Workshop - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Few of My Favourite Things
10 Apr - Drama inward the Overlooked
19 Apr - Beginners Watercolour Tutor: Charles Williams RWS
23 Apr - V&A Study Day - William Blake's Blessing Tutor: Paul Newland VPRWS
26 Apr - Creative Landscapes Tutor: Neil Pittaway RWS RE

Events during the RI Exhibition

All events are gratis of accuse to visitors deal the exhibition (there is a pocket-size entry fee to the exhibition itself for non-Friends of the FBA).

Wednesday Apr 2 - Painting inward the Gallery - Jean Noble RI SWA
Thursday Apr three - Painting inward the Gallery - Julia Sorrell RI RBA
Friday Apr 4 - No events
Saturday Apr 5

Meet the Artist - Jean Robinson RI & Rosa Sepple RI SWA
Painting inward the Gallery - Paul Banning RI RSMA
Artists together with their Sketchbooks - David Parfitt RI

Sunday Apr half-dozen - Vice President's Tour of the Exhibition - Tony Hunt VPRI
Monday Apr seven - Winsor & Newton Materials Demonstration - Paul Robinson
Tuesday Apr 8 - President's Tour of the Exhibition - Ronald Maddox PRI
Wednesday Apr nine - Artists together with their Sketchbooks - Ian Sidaway RI
Thursday Apr 10 - Exhibition Talk together with Tour - Robin Hazlewood RI
Friday Apr eleven - Painting inward the Gallery - Roger Dellar RI PS ROI
Saturday Apr 12

Meet the Artists - Rosa Sepple RI & Andy Wood RI RBA
Artists together with their Sketchbooks - David Parfitt RI

Sunday Apr xiii - Gallery Closed
Monday Apr xiv - No events
Tuesday Apr xv - Painting inward the Gallery - Chris Forsey RI together with John Yardley RI
Wednesday Apr xvi - Artists together with their Sketchbooks - Ian Sidaway RI
Thursday Apr 17 - Vice President's Tour of the Exhibition - Tony Hunt VPRI
Friday Apr xviii - Good Friday
Saturday Apr xix - Exhibition closes at 1.00pm

I'll hold upward reviewing both exhibitions - exactly equally shortly equally I've finished my mass - which incidentally includes some stunning images past times Mat Barber Kennedy RI - whose function you lot tin run across at the Mall Galleries.