KATHY E WATSON
My journey
I have 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 from studios in Castor Bay and Devonport in Auckland, and now in the Waikato. The great variety in The Waikato Landscape near my present home provides much source material for new paintings.
Work was influenced for many years in Auckland by sailing on the family yacht in the beautiful Hauraki Gulf.
My artwork has been exhibited in Art by the Sea and Art of this World Galleries in Devonport, and The Studio of Contemporary Art, Newmarket. Auckland, with two successful solo exhibitions and many invited and adjudicated group exhibitions.
After many decades of 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 archived work - I continue to create in my 80's.
Whilst I continue with my landscapes, my latest series is composed of colourful multi image tondos - find an explanation for this completely new creative process in Tondos
My studio is my happy place!
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.
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.
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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