Margaret Watson; Artist Statement

Landscape as a construct allows me to explore different types of space. rather than the deep, perspectival space of traditional landscape, I use formal relationships between color and mark to explore a more abstract and conceptual space.

Materials and process build my paintings. there is an immediacy and unpredictability to my work. the paintings are not planned but evolve through the placement of sequential colors and layers, each mark and color responding to the previous one. I allow the agency of the paint and its movement across the canvas surface to make the painting. I purposefully relinquish control over much of my process - allowing the possibility of unexpected relationships and juxtapositions of shape and color. These surprises inform both me and the painting.