Founded in 1882 the Royal Institute of Oil Painters is the only professional Society dedicated to the practice of painting in oils.

Mall Galleries London SW1
Joined November 2014
#RI26: Accepting submissions! 🏆 The RI is offering an exciting range of prizes and awards worth over £10,000, including the NEW David Barker Award of £1,000 awarded to two artists! Deadline: Friday 23 January 2026, at 2pm
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Shude Hill, Manchester’ 8” x 8” Oil on board #Gessobord by @ampersand_art Showing at the upcoming @ContemporarySix Winter Exhibition Hale The preview is on Thursday 4th December 5.30-8pm contemporarysix.co.uk/artist…
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One of the incredible artists who has joined our new fundraiser, FBA editions, is Ian Rawling PS! The collection brings together a range of contemporary figurative art, offering an accessible way to collect work by both established and emerging artists.
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The welder's rose, Oil on board 48x56cm
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#ROI2025: Take a stroll round our last exhibition of 2025... the Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition! Open till Saturday 13 December 2025. Can't make it? The entire exhibition is available to browse online via the link in our bio! 📸: Mark Sepple
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Henry Jabbour is one of the artists featured in our new initiative, FBA Editions! The collection celebrates contemporary figurative art and offers an accessible way to collect work. You can buy FBA editions on the Mall Galleries website, and in the gallery shop.
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Telecommunication satellite, Ink on paper, 51x68cm
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It anyone missed the latest life changing podcast with @sianwilliams100 it’s on @BBCRadio4 at 4.30pm today. I talk about the moment my life changed forever and how I became an artist.
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Listen again today on radio 4 at 4.30pm @BBCRadio4
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Royal Institute of oil painters exhibition is now moving into its second week at The Mall Galleries. This painting of a distant Pendle is still available. For more information click the link below 👇 is.gd/nS8N3L
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Here is a snapshot of my work @royalinstituteofoilpainters @mallgalleries why not go and see it in the flesh this weekend while you’re in London. It’s a great show. All my work is available to purchase online via the Mall Galleries website. mallgalleries.org #oilpainting
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My 4th Painting Exhibiting at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters at The Mall Galleries, London. ‘A Distant Pendle, Lancashire’ Oil on board #Gessobord by @ampersand_art The show starts this Wednesday evening with the official preview and is then open Thursday 27th Dec
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Charlotte Sorapure is one of the incredible artists featured in our new fundraising initiative, FBA Editions! The collection celebrates outstanding figurative art and offers an accessible way to collect work. You can buy prints on our website, and in the gallery shop.
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I think the tools of industry have a particular beauty.  In these still lives I have tried to curate arrangements that feature the sorts of implements I use every day in my painting studio, alongside the vices, spanners & drills I often come across in the yards. @scottishgallery
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‘The Dilly, Piccadilly, London’ Oil on board 12” x 9” #Gessobord by @ampersand_art Here is my 3rd painting showing at ROI Exhibition starting with the preview on the 26th November. Check out the @mallgalleries for more details. Hope to see you there!
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ROI Available now! The ROI Annual Exhibition will feature over 300 works, spanning a wide variety of subjects! Expect a special and varied display on the theme of 'HOME'. Open from 27 November to 13 September
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🎨 The Pastel Society open call closes in TWO DAYS! The exhibition will celebrate the 'direct touch' of dry media. 🌎 Any artist aged 18 or over may enter, from anywhere in the world. Deadline: Friday 14 November
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Prime Minister Gladstone named the area of Teeside around Redcar, the ‘Infant Hercules’. At that time steel manufacture employed 40,000 people helping power the Industrial Revolution. My visits in 2012-17 coincided with the demise of this industrial powerhouse @scottishgallery
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#ROI2025: Available now! The upcoming Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition 2025 is now available to browse and buy on our website! 🎨 The ROI Annual Exhibition will feature over 300 works, spanning a wide variety of subjects…. Click here is.gd/JYGdeV
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The Royal Institute of oil painters Ex is now online and works are available to buy. Click the link below. is.gd/llVzNP buyart.mallgalleries.org.uk
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