The Watercolour Rooms feature quality watercolours by leading Australian artists, including Harold Herbert, Sir Daryl Lindsay, Emma Minnie and Arthur Merric Boyd, Penleigh Boyd, John Eldershaw, and Sir William Dobell amongst many others. The Watercolour Rooms are sometimes used for small exhibitions by contemporary painters such as John Caldwell. Other artists regularly displayed include Tasmanian Tom Garrett, M.J. MacNally, J.W. Tristram. The increasingly popular Drawing Room features works on paper by a variety of well known Australian artists, including Norman Lindsay, Sir Russell Drysdale, Francis Lymburner, Donald Friend, George Bell, Constance Stokes, Sir Hans Heysen and Louis Kahan. Every painting or drawing on display has background information on the individual artist, and comments on the work This includes title, medium, size and the price of the work.
Many visitors spend considerable time reading the notes and enjoying the works featured.