tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86567836542246684452024-03-12T19:43:13.325-04:00Leslie Watts PortraitsLeslie Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01997471876994568744noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656783654224668445.post-44971151422491509912023-05-02T21:27:00.001-04:002023-05-02T21:27:06.217-04:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5TgGwyE6D9mZRpNnPO6Th2C-p_ObBPUAtc61Wa_sv7ZM8UvEuCBgH4_M2r9NnhPQB-xl80MFh9ZNzzo0PBTxY0o0zHLLPd-GBrh7t0Ln6ewVkV-yXcBgGyF3UriK4VeQnktbj0R9IKHCvYDZC51GNrAYweV1LjAltp7SSBC41zn4BF2SzCc8OH-T9/s1500/Two.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="990" data-original-width="1500" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5TgGwyE6D9mZRpNnPO6Th2C-p_ObBPUAtc61Wa_sv7ZM8UvEuCBgH4_M2r9NnhPQB-xl80MFh9ZNzzo0PBTxY0o0zHLLPd-GBrh7t0Ln6ewVkV-yXcBgGyF3UriK4VeQnktbj0R9IKHCvYDZC51GNrAYweV1LjAltp7SSBC41zn4BF2SzCc8OH-T9/s320/Two.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><i><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Two</i>, egg tempera on Claybord, 24 x 36"</div></i> <p></p>Leslie Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01997471876994568744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656783654224668445.post-89212806587739917652020-04-25T12:34:00.002-04:002020-04-25T12:34:39.587-04:00Recent commissions<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Leslie Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01997471876994568744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656783654224668445.post-76488805423741750172019-06-21T21:22:00.000-04:002019-06-21T21:22:10.141-04:00Roy Romanow, Chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>Roy Romanow, Chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan</i></div>
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On June 14, 2019, I attended the unveiling of my recent portrait commission. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Romanow" target="_blank">Roy Romanow</a> was a delight to paint. Here we are, blocking the view, moments after the unveiling:</div>
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And here is Chancellor Romanow with the small sketch I painted before I made the larger version:</div>
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Behind the chancellor, in the portrait, is a wall of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyndall_stone" target="_blank">Tyndall Stone</a>, which is used throughout the University of Saskatchewan campus. I love the soft contrast between the limestone base and the fossils that appear throughout it. It makes quite a characteristic backdrop for my subject.</div>
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Leslie Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01997471876994568744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656783654224668445.post-40520058503626384232019-02-14T13:18:00.002-05:002019-02-14T13:18:15.315-05:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
These are two commissions I painted last winter.</div>
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Leslie Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01997471876994568744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656783654224668445.post-14600680824506475982019-02-14T13:05:00.002-05:002019-02-14T13:05:44.649-05:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
In September, 2018, I had a mastectomy to treat breast cancer. While I was recovering from the surgery, I painted a self-portrait. This is a detail. The full painting may be seen on <a href="http://www.lesliewatts.ca/people.html" target="_blank">my website</a>.</div>
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Last fall I received a commission from the RP (Royal Society of Portrait Painters) in the UK: a portrait of Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chrystia Freeland, for Rhodes House in Oxford. The portrait is now hanging above the Head Table in Milner Hall, alongside Nelson Mandela, Cecil Rhodes, and the Second Century founders. I am delighted and honoured to share these photos of the painting as I photographed it, and as it now looks in its frame at Rhodes House.</div>
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The portrait hanging at Rhodes House</div>
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Milner Hall, Rhodes House, Oxford, UK</div>
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Leslie Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01997471876994568744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656783654224668445.post-75345760032053372432017-10-26T22:20:00.003-04:002017-10-26T22:20:41.293-04:00Kingston Prize, People's Choice AwardI am thrilled that <i>The Bookseller</i> (see my post from February 3, 2017) has won the $1,000 People's Choice Award at the first of three exhibitions of the Kingston Prize, Canada's national portrait competition. The show closed last week in Gananoque and will reopen on November 4 at the <a href="http://pama.peelregion.ca/en/index.asp" target="_blank">Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives</a> in Brampton, Ontario. The show will close there on January 8, 2018.<br />
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The Kingston Prize will then move to <a href="http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com/venues/artportgallery/" target="_blank">Artport Gallery</a>, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, on February 2, 2018, where it will be on display until April 22.Leslie Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01997471876994568744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656783654224668445.post-53768726329738034452017-02-28T13:46:00.000-05:002017-02-28T13:46:14.150-05:00The RPI'm delighted to have had two works selected for the Royal Society of Portrait Painters' Annual Exhibition 2017 at the Mall Galleries in London, UK. They are <i>Reliquary: Five Members of the International Midnight Painters' Society</i> and <i>The Four of Us </i>(see my previous posts). To read more about the RP, please click <a href="http://www.mallgalleries.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/royal-society-portrait-painters-annual-exhibition-2017" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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I'm extremely grateful to my friends and colleagues for their continued and enthusiastic support.Leslie Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01997471876994568744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656783654224668445.post-89099521162009571862017-02-03T14:47:00.001-05:002017-02-05T16:19:30.855-05:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mixed Media: egg tempera on five panels, 11" high each;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">More than a year ago, my friend and fellow portrait artist, Teri Anne Scoble, and I decided to form a society for artists who paint late into the night. Through Twitter, we soon gathered together a band of fellow all-hours painters, called ourselves the International Midnight Painters' Society (IMPS), and began the delightful and affirming habit of discussing our work, our technical issues, and anything at all that made us laugh. Suddenly I wasn't alone in my studio. I was surrounded by other artists, many of whom live in places I've never visited.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">But the relationship is not merely digital. Many of us have met in person, and when I was in the UK last fall, I was inspired to create a portrait of five of them. This is the result. It is a reliquary, based on the kind of gilded box that, half a millennium ago, would have held the finger bone of a saint or a piece of a sacred shroud. This reliquary, however, contains the relics of the process of art making.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">F</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">rom left to right, the subjects are <a href="http://katebrinkworth.com/" target="_blank">Kate Brinkworth</a>, whose relics are pencil shavings, drawing tacks, her grandmother's paint brush, and a fragment of paper from a blending stump; <a href="http://www.helentyrrell.eu/" target="_blank">Helen O'Sullivan Tyrrell</a>, whose relic is a piece of her painting apron; <a href="http://www.teriannescoble.com/" target="_blank">Teri Anne Scoble</a>, whose relics are a glitter-smeared brush, a bit of swan's down, a ballet slipper charm, and a tube of watercolour; <a href="https://www.facebook.com/gabrielle.f.robertsdalton/" target="_blank">Gabby Roberts-Dalton</a>, whose relic is a jam jar full of paint medium; and <a href="http://www.isobelpeachey.com/" target="_blank">Isobel Peachey</a>, whose relics are a scrap of canvas with colour test marks and a plait of cotton canvas thread.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">These are all artists who have made a huge difference in how I see my own work and, perhaps more importantly, where I see myself in the world of artists. I will be forever grateful for their presence in my life.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am very pleased that my portrait, <i>Stefan, 23,</i> has been selected for inclusion in this year's <a href="http://kingstonprize.ca/" target="_blank">Kingston Prize</a> exhibition. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The show will open on October 9 at the Firehall Theatre in Gananoque, where it will run until October 25. From there it will travel to the <a href="http://beaverbrookartgallery.org/en" target="_blank">Beaverbrook Art Gallery</a> in Fredericton, New Brunswick (November 14, 2015 to February 14, 2016) and <a href="http://www.artsdrummondville.com/spectacles-drummondville/galerie-dart/presentation" target="_blank">Galerie d'Art Desjardins</a> in Drummondville, Québec (from March, 2016),</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><b>UPDATE </b></span>(November 15, 2015): Happy news: <i>Stefan, 23</i> has received an Honourable Mention in The Kingston Prize.</span>Leslie Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01997471876994568744noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656783654224668445.post-51508341057997062982015-06-30T13:12:00.004-04:002015-06-30T13:12:47.063-04:00500 Portraits<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am happy to report that my portrait, Pamela Newel Sellers, has been included in the revised edition of <i><b>500 Portraits: 25 Years of the BP Portrait Award</b></i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From the National Portrait Gallery website: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can purchase the book by clicking <a href="http://www.npg.org.uk/shop/shop-list.php?cat=BP%20Portrait%20Award%202015%20&inx=1&_ga=GA1.3.1116463317.1430231148&showProductDetails=7950" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
<br />Leslie Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01997471876994568744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656783654224668445.post-10812099891102933472015-06-26T13:19:00.001-04:002015-06-26T13:19:06.193-04:00"Charlotte and Emily" on Making a Mark<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was delighted to spend some time speaking with Katherine Tyrrell last week at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Katherine writes about art on her blog for artists and art lovers, </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Making a Mark</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. She was kind enough to include a picture of me in her recent post, "BP Portrait 2015 - Artists with their paintings." </span><a href="http://makingamark.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/bp-portrait-2015-artists-with-paintings.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Here is the link.</a>Leslie Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01997471876994568744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656783654224668445.post-2733708403305099532015-04-28T18:47:00.001-04:002015-04-28T18:47:37.857-04:00BP Portrait Award 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am delighted that my diptych, <i>Charlotte and Emily</i>, has been selected for this year's BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery in London, UK.</span></div>
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Leslie Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01997471876994568744noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656783654224668445.post-87651605521922277132015-02-01T20:36:00.001-05:002015-02-01T21:10:21.617-05:00Short documentary about my work<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">I would like to thank JacksGap for making this short film about my portrait painting. Working with Jack, Finn, and Tim was a delight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you would like to read the JacksGap blog post about making the film, please click <a href="http://jacksgap.com/making-following-heart-leslie-watts/" target="_blank">here</a>.</span>Leslie Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01997471876994568744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656783654224668445.post-25454864021566164632014-08-24T15:42:00.002-04:002014-08-24T15:42:21.229-04:00Writing about portraiture<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am honoured to have been invited to write about the painting of </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stefan, 23</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, for Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco's blog feature, "Mi Blog Es Tu Blog". You can read the article </span><a href="http://ilardt.blogspot.ca/2014/08/mi-blog-es-tu-blog-leslie-watts.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Thank you, Ilaria!</span>Leslie Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01997471876994568744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656783654224668445.post-20568937685960271372014-04-17T00:26:00.003-04:002014-04-17T00:34:03.643-04:00BP Portrait Award 2014 Exhibition, London<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am delighted that this portrait of my son has been selected for exhibition this summer at <a href="http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/bp-portrait-award-2014/the-exhibition.php" target="_blank">The National Portrait Gallery</a> in London, England. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>John</i>, egg tempera on muslin laid on birch panel, 16 x 12"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Emma</i>, egg tempera on muslin laid on birch panel, 14 x 11"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Evan</i>, acrylic on muslin laid on birch panel, 16 x 12"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Larissa</i>, acrylic on muslin laid on birch panel, 16 x 12"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Laura</i>, egg tempera on birch panel, 12 x 10"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Madi</i>, egg tempera on muslin laid on birch panel, 16 x 12"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Mother and Child</i>, egg tempera and gold leaf</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on embroidered muslin laid on birch panel, 12 x 10"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Gloria at Home</i>, egg tempera on muslin laid on birch panel, 24 x 18"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Two Sisters</i>, egg tempera on birch panel, 18 x 24"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">egg tempera on muslin laid on birch panel, 12 x 9"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Thomas</i>, egg tempera and gold leaf</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nikki, egg tempera on masonite, 16 x 6"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Mark</i>, egg tempera on masonite, 16 x 6"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Syd</i>, egg tempera on masonite, 16 x 6"</span></div>
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<br /></div>Leslie Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01997471876994568744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656783654224668445.post-1080793354340327902010-10-18T00:33:00.000-04:002013-04-23T23:13:45.674-04:00<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UIy2jOt5ST0/TLvOPTvTJFI/AAAAAAAAAdE/Ds9GQjZNwSw/s1600/Jack.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529239729919435858" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UIy2jOt5ST0/TLvOPTvTJFI/AAAAAAAAAdE/Ds9GQjZNwSw/s400/Jack.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 397px;" /></a><i></i><br />
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