Kathy E Watson
My Journey with Paint
'Round the World Yacht Race, Viaduct Basin, Auckland, New Zealand', Watercolour on Arches Paper 850mm x 300mm
Kathy has sketched and painted since childhood . After emigrating to New Zealand from England with her husband (a geothermal engineer) and a young family in 1980 and a career in nursing, she entered Whitecliffe Art School, Auckland in mid-life. Since then she has painted from studios in Castor Bay and Devonport in Auckland, and now in the Waikato, together with travelling widely to the U.S.A., Europe, and Asia, as well as throughout New Zealand.
In past years, her work was influenced by the Auckland marine environment (where she sailed in the family kauri sloop on the Waitamata Harbour for many years), and now by the contrasting serenity of the magnificent Waikato Rural Landscape and Gardens where she now lives. A new series of contemporary, abstract mixed media tondos is now appearing in her studio! This is a development of the previously successful Narrative Series. Her work has been successfully marketed by Art by the Sea Gallery, Devonport and The Studio of Contemporary Art, Newmarket in Auckland, together with many group and adjudicated exhibitions as shown in the Previous Series pages. |
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Awards:
- Finalist Telecom Art Awards 1992
- Finalist North Shore City Art Award 1994, and work accepted for same nearly every year since.
- NZ Sugar Company Award at Pumphouse Competition for Seascape - 1995 and 1998, Merit Award 2003.
- Oil Painting Award, Mairangi Arts Centre Members Exhibition 2004
- Paintings in private and corporate collections in N.Z. and Overseas, including the Graeme Hart, Carter Holt Harvey, New York; Telecom NZ, Dennis Conner, Stars and Stripes Syndicate, and the Prada Syndicate.
K E Watson
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