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

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.

I am fascinated by the pattern of light on the floor of a sunlit swimming pool. The mesmerising beauty of chaos, endlessly looping and repeating. Always the same and yet never the same. Like a poet, I distill that complex visual information down as far as it will go and try to say more with less.

Sometimes I lose the pattern completely.

I wish there was a word for this pool light that I find so moving, for the line where the sunlight meets the shade, the way in which it falls in pieces onto the human body and for the indigo shadow trailing behind. Have you ever noticed that it's the darkness that makes the light brighter? My art will help you to appreciate that, to choose to be in the moment and to live life with joy.

Whatever that word may be.