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CAMILLA WATSON
Camilla Watson is a Scottish artist who graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art Drawing and Painting from the Edinburgh College of Art. She studied for two years at the Leith School of Art and gained a ‘Distinction’ for consistently excellent work. Camilla has exhibited in both the Visual Arts Scotland exhibition and the Scottish Society of Artists exhibitions, winning the SSA 'Kilmorack Award'. She has also exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy's annual exhibition, winning the Latimer Award for meritorious work. Her work is held in many private and corporate collections.
Camilla’s paintings search for the connection between the past and the present to give a genuine expression of human experience in conjunction with the land. She uses mixed-media elements in her landscape paintings, including text and map imagery, to tell the story of the land. She uses historical subject matter as the basis of her work, looking at both the landscape, and the documents recording the area.
Camilla works with reproductions of historical maps as collage and also uses text elements from old parish records and other local documents. The paintings explore the continuing presence of the past on these places and allude to the people who lived their lives before. ‘My painting suggests the narratives hidden within the picture and through this the viewer may feel a sense of the past and the way it gives its character to our contemporary experience of a place and, sometimes subtlely, affects our own experience”.
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