watson studio about

I've never been able to seperate art from my life, or my life from art.
They co-exist, each enhancing the other and blending until separation
is impossible. Good times or bad, it's as necessary as
eating, sleeping, and breathing. It also adds as much value to life.
I have a constant hunger for art and for what it adds to my life, and
a constant need to produce art that is a product of my life experiences.
It is all just one thing, one life.

It's all just one thing. This is the way I experience the many different forms of art and life, and the reason I work in more than one medium.
An artistt painting chooses from a variety of supports, and puts an assortment of colors on his palette to suit the work in mind. I have simply expanded my selection of supports and increased the assortment of color materials on my pallette as well. It's all on the pallette for the same reason, to make the perceived piece of art the best it can be. The best painting I can do today might be in glass, the best piece of glass I can imagine might be an oil painting. It's all one thing. Just as in a painting a certain color or technique is best to convey a certain meaning or feeling, so it is with the extended pallette. Perhaps a thing can be best expressed with red rather than white, perhaps better with clay than with glass, or with glass rather than paint, or vice versa. Its all there for the same thing, the best means of expression. It's all just one thing, one purpose.

It's all just one thing. The more I paint, the more my paintings look like my glasswork. The more glasswork I make, the more it begins to look
like my paintings. I like this. To me, it seems that now when I am making glass, I'm not trying to make a a piece of glass, , I am just making a piece of art, using skills aquired in painting, pottery, woodworking, etc.. When I am painting, I am not necessarily trying to make an oil painting
that resembles other oil paintings, I am making a piece of art using skills, techniques, and effects learned in glassmaking, pottery, etc. With the
pottery, I still am a bit stuck in trying to make a piece of pottery, but am moving quickly, I think, to the time when my claywork isn't visualized and anticipated as a piece of pottery (although I do thoroughly enjoy this), but is approached and worked as just another color on my pallette, used in making a piece of art that is an expression of life. After all, It's all just one thing, one thought.

It's all just one thing. Me, my arwork, my workshop, my life. This is the best I can do as an 'introduction to the artist' page. There is no
photo of me here, or a whole bunch of stuff about who I am. In my mind, the best way to judge my work is by examining the work. Who I am, what my work is or what it represents, the quality and value of the work, and most everything is in the work. My work is a part of me, and I am a part of my work. It's all just one thing, one art.