Categories: The Tate exhibition is organized into eight categories.  It starts off with a look at what is called The Natural World, exploring early botanical illustrations rendered in the aqueous media.  Then comes work organized under the term Intimate Knowledge. Travel and Topography introduces works including many artists from the Golden Age of Watercolour as well as contemporary artists working in this genre. The Watercolour and War category illuminates the use of the facility of the medium in times of turmoil and unrest.  The Inner Vision grouping explores the personal visual expressions of yet another group of artists. The Exhibition Watercolour is explored as a result of several organizations of artists, whose exhibitions became prominent in British history.  Abstraction and Improvision provides yet another format, and finally a group called Water + Colour: Exploring the Medium yields various approaches to the use of the medium.

“A macaque, drawn by an anonymous 19th-century Cantonese artist, is one of the most beautiful and alive things here. The wide-eyed monkey stares back at us, as puzzled and curious as we are of it.” Adrian Searle guardian.co.uk, Monday 14 February 2