KATHY E WATSON
Overview
Overview
I am a New Zealand artist who has sketched and painted since childhood, entering Whitecliffe Art School, Auckland in mid-life after some 30 years in a nursing career and bringing up a family. Since then I have painted and exhibited from studios in Auckland, and now in the Waikato.
The great variety in The Waikato Countryside and Gardens near my present home provides much inspiration for new paintings.
Previously, while living in Auckland, my source material was influenced for many years by Sailing in the Hauraki Gulf on the family yacht, several visits to France, together with a series of Narrative Mixed Media work depicting Auckland city life and New Zealand's iconic scenery.
Previously, while living in Auckland, my source material was influenced for many years by Sailing in the Hauraki Gulf on the family yacht, several visits to France, together with a series of Narrative Mixed Media work depicting Auckland city life and New Zealand's iconic scenery.
Paintings have been exhibited successfully in Art by the Sea and Art of this World Galleries in Devonport, and The Studio of Contemporary Art, Newmarket, Auckland. I have enjoyed working with all types of media and subject matter, sketching from an early age, visiting galleries worldwide, graduating from art school in later life and exhibiting work in Auckland galleries for several decades - see previous series including Watercolour Panoramas.
An exciting and new series of abstract New Mixed Media Work - Just for Fun is now emerging in the studio and follows on from the earlier Narrative Series in technique, but with a contemporary twist!
INFLUENCES:
J.M.W.Turner is very influential in my vision of the landscape. Other artists whose work I enjoy are the American artists Edward Hopper and Winslow Homer, the French Impressionists, the Australian Heidelberg group and the New Zealanders James Nairn and Toss Woolaston. I have always found Wassily Kandinsky's work very exciting too!
AWARDS:
Finalist Telecom Art Awards 1992
J.M.W.Turner is very influential in my vision of the landscape. Other artists whose work I enjoy are the American artists Edward Hopper and Winslow Homer, the French Impressionists, the Australian Heidelberg group and the New Zealanders James Nairn and Toss Woolaston. I have always found Wassily Kandinsky's work very exciting too!
AWARDS:
Finalist Telecom Art Awards 1992
- Finalist NSC 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 in past 25 years, including Carter Holt Harvey, New York; Telecom NZ; Dennis Conner, Stars and Stripes Syndicate, and the Prada Syndicate.
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