Paintings Story – Neil Watson Art

Floor Scrapers

In 1993 I visited Paris with my school art class. We had the (unrealised at the time) privilege of visiting many of the art museums in the city. We saw Monets, Van Goghs, Da Vincis, and more, but the painting that made me go “wow”, was a painting by an artist who…

Nighthawks

A painting that always struck me as both, cool and enigmatic. It adorned posters, it straddled the art world and the pop culture world, before pop art. Painted in 1942 – during turbulent times in a worrying world, Hopper painted this iconic scene that illustrated the human condition of isolation and lonliness…

My Parents

Colour! That’s what initially grabbed me about this painting, but before I get into it – let me tell you about this painting. On the left, sits his mother and the on the right, his father – reading an art & photography book. The painting was completed a year prior to his…

Impression, Sunrise.

On my 1993 Paris trip with my school art class. I saw this famous Monet painting alongside a number of treasures, but the punch of the sun stays with me. The rest of the landscape is muted, the silhouette of the fishermen, given weight alongside the ripples in the harbour, against the…

What Time Do You Finish?

I love Norman Rockwell’s work, but dare I say that Will Roachfort has taken the baton and accelerated with it? This painting has the humour and story telling of Rockwell at his finest. I can’t really pick a particular favourite from Will’s work, but this one is so timeless and beautifully executed…