{"title": "Portfolio Reviews", "start": "2026-07-10T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-22T00:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Watercolour Society", "address": "", "price": "£145", "price_from": "145.00", "price_to": "145.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticketing/portfolio-reviews-with-royal-watercolour-society-artists", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/painting/watercolor"], "description": "Portfolio Reviews with Royal Watercolour Society Artists offers one-to-one portfolio reviews for artists at all stages of their careers, held online via Zoom or in person at RWS Gallery. The Royal Watercolour Society runs it, with its artists — including Lottie Cole, Francis Bowyer, John Crossley, Mark Entwisle, Wendy Jacob and Charles Williams — giving thoughtful, professional feedback in 45-minute sessions. Reviewers discuss the strengths of your work, areas for development, and guidance on presentation, artistic progression and professional opportunities, from exhibition preparation and open calls to residencies and funding applications. 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Williams paints quickly and instinctively onto wooden panels without preliminary sketches, 'becoming' each character before reducing, rebuilding and reconstructing the work over a long process. 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With artist Caroline Dorset, the group looks at well-known portraits in the galleries, including Frans Hals's Laughing Cavalier and Gainsborough's Mrs Robinson, discussing sitters, painters and what poses and clothing can reveal. Back in the Learning Studio, over tea and coffee, each participant recreates a favourite as a mono-print, rolling ink onto perspex and drawing into it, to take home. 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Three MA Print graduates take part: Tamsin Loxley joins a forum talk on how a place, its history and collections inspire new work, drawing on her residency at Ushaw Historic House; Rudolph Taylor, recipient of the inaugural Imprint Artist Award, presents a solo exhibition and speaks in a forum on what to look for in a print; and Laura Townsend, recipient of the Imprint x RCA Graduate Award, exhibits and joins a conversation with Professor Jo Stockham on where print is heading next.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-rca-at-imprint-2026-70353/", "official_url": "https://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/the-rca-at-imprint-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cb7e361cfcb434762e92cb10f0806776c44b69d582211c88355a47e5ddfd0228-1200.webp"}]}