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ARTIST STORY
Scottish artist AAWatson is known for his darkly humorous works of art, which blend the old and the new for a unique, contemporary aesthetic. With a successful career in the corporate world behind him, and passion for travelling (for pleasure as well as work) under his belt, its no surprise that AAWatson’s art should be suffused with a range of diverse influences, combing varied genres and styles throughout his oeuvre.
Scottish artist AAWatson is known for his darkly humorous works of art, which blend the old and the new for a unique, contemporary aesthetic. With a successful career in the corporate world behind him, and passion for travelling (for pleasure as well as work) under his belt, its no surprise that AAWatson’s art should be suffused with a range of diverse influences, combing varied genres and styles throughout his oeuvre.
But perhaps the single, running thread in all of AAWatson’s work is its ability to make the viewer smile: overlaid with words and phrases in gold leaf lettering, his pieces are both comic and cathartic, relatable and also approachable, and utterly mesmerising, with a bold, visual language all of their own.
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AN INTERVIEW WITH AAWATSON We sat down with AAWatson to discuss how he juggles being an accountant and an artist, where his ideas come from, and his favourite reactions to his typography prints. AR: Where do you take your inspiration from? What are your biggest influences? AAWatson: It all stems from the fact that I spent all of my career in the corporate world. I'm a qualified accountant, I've worked in FTSE top 10 companies most of my life. I only started doing my own artwork a couple of years ago. But I've always been a big collector, particularly of ...
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