mezzotint 15 by 12 cm Edition number: 20 Date: 12 November, 2022
Fez Scaffolding
mezzotint 15 by 12 cm Edition number: 20 Date: 06 January, 2021
Postcard from Delphi
mezzotint 14 by 10 cm Edition number: 20 Date: 12 August, 2022
Syros Steps
mezzotint 24 by 20 cm Edition number: 20 Date: 06 July, 2022
Essaouira Blues I
mezzotint 10 by 10 cm Edition number: 20
Essaouira Sunset
mezzotint 10 by 12 cm Edition number: 20
Where the Light Comes In
mezzotint 12 by 10 cm Edition number: 20
Kasbah Ssteps
mezzotint 15 by 12 cm Edition number: 20
This is The End, My Friend
mezzotint 6 by 10 cm Edition number: 20
Its Closing Time
mezzotint 6 by 10 cm Edition number: 20
About the Artist
Christine Watson’s paintings, pastels and etchings seek out the essential qualities of the island towns of the Mediterranean and most currently the mountains villages and towns of 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. . Watson’s current work explores the abstract qualities of these spaces, their light and shade, their texture and colour. She often depicts people as they go about their daily lives – in the markets, chatting in the streets, ascending steps, riding motorbikes. Yet in some works the people have abandoned the frame, leaving their absence along with the crumbling surfaces and vibrant colours as the main subject matter. A recent series of etchings explore the textures and details of fragments of sculptures from ancient Rome. Layers of aquatint and stop out medium recreate the now crumbling surfaces recalling the grandeur of the past city.
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 shows work regularly in London and Greece and regularly exhibited at Gallery K in Hampstead and the Pastel Society when she was the Schmicke Prizewiner in 2015 and 2021. Catalogues of her work have been published in 1994, 2003 and 2008. Her book Art Therapy was published in 2017. Christine was elected to be a member of the Pastel Society in 2022.
