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Contemporary British painter Terry Watts RBA displays an unsentimental approach to the English landscape in his precisely rendered paintings of unusually wide perspective. Terry turned to painting having first pursued his interest in landscape through photography, and the result encompasses more of the character of the landscape than the camera can reveal.
After Camberwell College of Art and Hammersmith College of Art, Terry Watts worked in education before moving to work on large landscape-based sculptural projects for big corporate clients. These commissions gave him a new fascination with perception of landscape and he returned to painting full time.
Terry Watts has exhibited widely in southern England and in London. His work is represented in collections in Paris, the Netherlands and Washington State as well as local authorities in England. Elected to the RBA in 2006, his work is regularly shown at the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition and at The Discerning Eye. He was awarded the Guest Prize at the Laing Landscape Competition, and has twice won first prize at the London City Airport Competition. In 2007 Terry received the Buzzacott ‘Best Picture’ Award at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours. |
