A Time to Keep and A Time to Cast Away

Added on 21 March 2023

Image from Alan Watson photograph for catalogue of his drawing 'At the sma' lines', 1986 Copyright Alan Watson b.1957 St Andrews. All Rights Reserved. Private collection. Countless generations of my ancestors have been involved in the fishing industry of the East Neuk of Fife. This cont...

'The Blue On The King's Back'

Added on 07 December 2022

I have often asked myself why the experience of looking at a photograph of a painting in a book never compares to the experience of viewing the same painting in real life? I think the answer lies in the way our eye and brain responds emotionally to colour. When a camera records an image it is an ent...

Don't Look Back

Added on 15 November 2022

Winter Trees at West Lingo, 2012 Copyright Alan Watson b.1957 All rights reserved. At this time of year I often find myself looking again at Bruegel's, 'Hunters in the Snow'. While on a travelling scholarship, having just finished Art School, I found myself looking at art books in a...