The youngest artist at this year’s RSW Annual Exhibition is 13-year-old Terox – the youngest artist ever to be selected for the prestigious show, currently at Edinburgh’s RSA. Terox’s work Perpetual Sunshine appears alongside nearly 380 works by artists from Scotland and beyond in this year’s acclaimed display. Hailing from Morpeth, Northumberland, he uses that monicker to protect his identity as a minor, and is delighted to have been selected without anyone knowing his age.

RSW President Anthea Gage has commented, ‘Perpetual Sunshine is a remarkably mature piece of work. Terox has put a lot of careful thought into the placement of tones and use of colours… Abstraction is notoriously difficult, it is about dismantling the process of painting into its building blocks and then rebuilding them. It can take mature artists decades to get to that point.’ She continued, ‘We’re very impressed by Terox’s work and he has inspired me to think about activities and workshops we can offer to engage younger audiences.’

Terox works in a range of styles, including abstract and figurative painting and graffiti art, and his work has been shown at galleries in the northeast of England, and London. Perpetual Sunshine, he says, was inspired by the flag of the Carribean island of St Kitts: ‘My dad is from the Carribean and his dad is from St Kitts, so I wanted to use those colours… Being in this show is a big deal. I applied but I didn’t really think I would get in. I’m honoured to be the youngest artist featured.’

Scotland’s primary showcase of watercolour and water-based media, the 145th Open Annual Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour includes work by emerging and established artists from Scotland and beyond.