AWARDS AND HONOURS
Winner of the Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Purchase Prize, Royal Watercolour Society (RWS), London
2007
2015
Winner of the Exhibitions Award, Royal Watercolour Society (RWS), London
2016
Shortlisted for the International Watercolour Biennial Prize ‘Marche d’Acqua’, Italy
2021
Winner of the Peoples’ Prize, Budapest inAcquarello, Hungary
Elected member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour - RSW
Shortlisted for the Fabriano Watercolour International Biennial Prize, Italy
2022
Winner of the Independent Financial Advice - Paisley Centre Award at the Paisley Art Institute (PAI) 137th annual open exhibition, Scottish Arts Club, Glasgow
2026
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As a faithful listener to BBC Radio 4’s ‘Woman’s Hour’ for the last 30 years, I was elated to be interviewed live in 2016 by Dame Jenni Murray on the subject of watercolour for the programme. To hear the interview click here.
‘The work of Jenny Matthews shows… that painting flowers need not be merely botany; that in the right hands inspiration and poetry are completely compatible with precise observation and understanding of the distinctive characters of flowers and plants’. The Scotsman, Duncan Macmillan, 2016
‘Technically… Matthews is brilliant’. The Times, Giles Sutherland, 2017