Christine Watson - Painting

Tel: 07957733793

Email: watson.latham@virgin.net

About me: Christine Watson was born in 1958 in Southsea, Hants. She studied at Winchester School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art. In 1985 she was recipient of the EA Abbey Award in Painting with a residency at the British School at Rome. Christine exhibits regularly in London and Greece at Gallery K Hampstead. Her work is held in private collections throughout the world. She teaches at Barnet College and runs private classes in Muswell Hill and Barnet.

About my work: Christine Watson's paintings and pastels seek out the essential qualities of towns and villages of the Mediterranean and North Africa, revealing the richness of spaces and surfaces without sentiment or nostalgia. Steps and stairways, walls and roofs, windows and doors, streets and alleyways – the fabric of habitation – are revealed as they are, aged by wear and weather. Figures move in and out of the paintings hiding in the shadows away from the heat and light.

Exhibitions: 2011 Lights Up, Phoenix Cinema, London
2011 Small is Beautiful, artsdepot, London
See website for past and current exhibitions.