DOHA: American artist Lisa Mounteer Watson has opened an exhibition in Doha. The expo, Chronofusion, is being held at Inter-Continental Doha The City Square Restaurant until May 15. The show is open to the public.
The artist is originally from California, but has been living abroad for the last 21 years. She majored in Fine Arts from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1980. After living in the UK and Belgium for 12 years, she moved to the Middle East in 2002 and has lived in Oman and Abu Dhabi before arriving to Qatar in 2008.
In her art, Watson seeks to reflect the unseen resonance of the environment in which she is painting. “Each place has its own rhythm; buildings emit their individual energies; and people project their unique emotions and spirituality. Her endeavour is to blend these elements together, suffused with the historical and cultural legacy on which they exist,” she said.
Watson has sold paintings all over the world. “I might do a painting of a sunset, and I’ll have the horizon line in mind. I’ll put that in then the basecoat, usually of Naples yellow. I let the painting drip down when I add the other colours — and then something takes over after that,” the artist said.
“I really just let myself go, and it it’s working I’m painting in a passion. I’m painting really quickly. I’m not thinking. The whole studio’s a mess; there’s paint everywhere. And then I stand back and look, and start to see things emerging out of the painting. I see things that just kind of come out and I think there’s something that comes out of my soul,” she added.
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