Margaret Watson uses landscape as a construct to explore different types of space. Instead of traditional landscape’s deep, perspectival space, she employs formal relationships between color and mark to delve into a more abstract and conceptual realm.​ Her paintings are built through materials and process, characterized by immediacy and unpredictability. They are not pre-planned but evolve through the placement of sequential colors and layers, with each mark and color responding to the previous one. Watson embraces the agency of the paint and its movement across the canvas, intentionally relinquishing control over much of her process. This approach allows for unexpected relationships and juxtapositions of shape and color to emerge organically.​

 

Margaret Watson resides and works in New Hope, PA. She holds a B.A. in Design and Fiber Arts from the University of California and an MD from the University of Washington. She has also studied Painting and Drawing at the Gage Academy of Art (Seattle, WA), Painting and Printmaking at Pratt Fine Arts Center (Seattle, WA), an Advanced Painting Workshop with Ed Paschke at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center (Snowmass Village, CO), and Scientific Illustration at the University of Washington (Seattle, WA). Watson has mounted numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally, including ArkWRKD Gallery (Newtown, PA), Muse Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), Gallery I/M/A (Seattle, WA), and Francine Seders Gallery (Seattle, WA), Zürcher Gallery (New York, NY), The Clio Art Fair (New York, NY), Art Show at Phillips’ Mill (New Hope, PA), and Gallery V2 (Seattle, WA), among others. Watson has also participated in several art residencies, including Millay Arts (Austerlitz, NY), Brush Creek Artist Residency (Saratoga, Wyoming), Willapa Bay Artist in Residency (Oysterville, WA), Centrum Artist Residency (Port Townsend, WA), and Vermont Studio Center Residency (Johnson, VT).​