Royal Over-Seas League (ROSL)

2019 ROSL International Residency recipient Cole Ndelu is a photographer and self-described 'visual communicator', who visited the UK last year with the support of ROSL, to exhibit at the Art House in Wakefield. Find out how she has been looking after herself, staying positive and making plans for when life gets back to normal.

Multidisciplinary artist Dimple B Shah talking with ROSL Visual Arts Curator Eilidh McCormick, shows where she is working and how she is staying creative in lockdown. To coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week, she also discusses her work's relevance to mental health, something thrown into the spotlight for many facing government-imposed isolation. 

Looking to improve your drawing skills? Then why not join artist Francis Martin, who will take you through the steps of how to draw a spherical object in our first Draw at Home video. All you need is a pencil, paper and a speherical household object! Francis will be back with more videos before joining us at the clubhouse later in the year for a class. 

Join artist Francis Martin for the second of his draw-at-home videos. This time, he will take you through the steps needed to draw folds in fabric. All you need to join in is a pencil, paper and a piece of fabrict! Francis will be back with more videos before joining us at the clubhouse later in the year for a class. 

Artist Francis Martin returns for his third Draw at Home video. Following along with him as he takes you through the techniques needed to successfully master drawing hollow cylindrical objects. All you need is a pen and paper to get involved and start improving your drawing skills.

Artist Francis Martin returns for another Draw at Home video, which aims to give you the basic skills needed to draw from life. This time around, he is tackling flowers, so pick up a pencil and paper and join in with him as he gives you a step by step guide of how to master this technique. 

In our latest Draw at Home video, learn the secrets of portraiture from Josie Deighton. The Royal Drawing School graduate, artist and teacher, who you may remember from life drawing classes at the clubhouse last year, shares her knowledge of drawing portraits in this easy to follow video. 

In our latest Draw at Home video, artist Josie Deighton presents the ultimate hand drawing tutorial with top tips, easy to follow guides and lots of different angle examples that can be understood and recreated with simple materials. Get creative and share your drawings with This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Looking for a way to get creative while stuck at home? Why not take part in ROSL's biennial charity exhibition, Incognito. Submit your own anonymous postcard artwork and help to raise money for the arts and education programmes ROSL supports around the Commowealth and beyond. 

In 2019, ROSL presented an exhibition exploring the theme of Architecture and one of the featured artists, Graham Martin, has shared his story of art in isolation with us. Read how he is adapting to working from home and what plans have had to change as a result of quarantine.

With many people around the world now in self- and government-imposed isolation, can creativity still flourish? We ask 2019 ROSL Visual Arts Scholar Joey Chin how her output has been impacted by the spread of coronavirus. 

In 2019, ROSL presented an exhibition exploring the theme of Architecture and one of the featured artists, Mairi Timoney, has shared her story of art in isolation with us. Read how she is adapting to working from home and what plans have had to change as a result of quarantine. 

In today's ROSL at Home video, Visual Arts Curator Eilidh McCormick speaks to ROSL alumni artist and founder of #ArtistSupportPledge, Matthew Burrows, to find out more about the creative initiative he founded as a reaction to COVID-19, which aims to bolster the income of artists when other sources have been lost as a result of the pandemic.

With the walls of the clubhouse currently inaccessible for our next exhibition, we have created a virtual Duke of York Bar to showcase our latest exhibition; As they were and will be again, hosted in partnership with the Royal Society of British Artists (RBA), with works which reflect the beauty of the outdoors and community, something we strive to be a part of again.

Our latest virtual exhibition is now up on the virtual walls of Over-Seas House. Women by Women showcases the varied works of four talented female artists; Marcelina Amelia, Rosie Emerson, Delphine Lebourgeois and Maria Rivans, in partnership with Liberty Gallery. 

2010 ROSL International Residency recipient Shake Makelele is a painter, who visited the UK with the support of ROSL tospend time working at Hospitalfield in Scotland. He exhibited his work after spending time in the UK and is now sharing some of his work and his experience of working in isolation.