Margaret Watson makes paintings that treat surface as a working system. Her process borrows from printmaking—using tools like a brayer/roller to apply oil paint in thin layers—so color mixing and mark-making can unfold directly on the canvas as the work builds.
Rather than aiming for fixed depiction, Watson uses recurring forms to keep the image in motion. Shapes may echo landscape, still life, or architecture, but the point is the shifting relationship between color, edges, and the marks that accumulate—content that stays partly recognizable and partly undecided.
She focuses on how different layers change the picture’s visual “content,” letting the work hover between familiar structure and unfamiliar read, so viewers encounter a painting that feels both constructed and evolving.
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