Wokingham Art Society member Linda Saul has recently been elected an Associate of the Royal Watercolour Society (RWS).
The Royal Watercolour Society was founded in 1804 by a group of artists who felt that the Royal Academy, the only professional artistic body at the time, discriminated against watercolour. The Royal Watercolour Society is based at the Bankside Gallery in London.
Linda, based in Charvil, is vice-chair of the Reading Guild of Artists and a prominent campaigner for the Save Reading Gaol campaign.
She is known locally as the instigator and organiser of the 2019 Reading Gaol Hug that saw about 1,000 people surround the Gaol linking hands. Also in 2019, with Jenny Halstead, she organised the successful In Reading Gaol by Reading Town exhibition at the Riverside Museum.
Last year, she co-authored the book Reading’s Influential Women with Terry Dixon of Terry’s Reading Walkabouts.
Linda has participated in the Henley Arts Trail since 2017.
In this year’s trail she will be at venue 24 in Charvil alongside painter printmaker Jane Somner.
It is open to visitors this weekend, see page 10 for more.
Linda said: “I am over the moon to be elected to the Royal Watercolour Society.
“It has been my dream for some years and I am looking forward to regularly exhibiting at Bankside Gallery.”
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