Priscilla Watkins - artist

Previous Work

Oil Paintings

Gallery Exhibitions.

3-19 April 2025 Joint show with painter Jackie Clark at The Transformation Gallery in Brixton.

@studio73art @thetransformationgallery

14-23 November 2025 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition at The Mall Galleries in Central London.

@ingdiscerningeye @mallgalleries @parkerharrisco

19-22 November 2026 PEX100 Centenary Exhibition. My paintings help to illustrate the story of the modernist Pioneer Health Centre, home of the Peckham Experiment: a radical study of positive health, community, freedom and place. At The Copeland Gallery, SE15 3SN. @peckhamexperiment @copelandparkse

Figure   Pattern   Light

Hello and welcome to my website. I am an oil painter and a printmaker and my subject is swimming. It is in the water that I find the unique combination of figure, pattern and light that allows me to explore the emotional depths of the human experience and make art that both inspires and consoles.

The emotion of the light.

The image of a body free and floating in water, surrounded by light and the shadows created by bright sunshine, is full of happiness. And yet, so many of us swim to escape, to rest our tired brains and to find peace. Painting swimming pools has taught me that it's the darkness that makes the light brighter and that without some sadness there is no joy.  

There is often a sense of narrative in my paintings. A moment caught or interrupted in a life being lived. I think of them as visual poems that begin with a source image that I then distill down through painting. Sometimes it's just the pattern that tells a story and sometimes just the figure and the light.