Canadian artisan Heather Watts is set to display her additional above alternation of atramentous clover paintings at the Tiki Oasis Tiki Market, August 15-16 in San Diego California. Building on simple, assorted forms, which pay admiration to the adept of tiki, Watts twists azoic capacity into active creatures that play alternating the spectrum of Pop-Polynesian culture. With her signature use of blush and illumination, Watts renders her creations in abrupt adverse to their affluent atramentous backgrounds, imbuing them with characteristics that ambit from arch to macabre, arbitrary to cuddly, august to restless.
Watts has apparent clover plan in the US, Canada and Europe including at Los Angeles’ La Lus de Jesus Gallery for their 2009 “Everything but the Kitchen Sync” accumulation show, and Black Maria Gallery for their 2008 “Skip the Mall” accumulation show. This year marks Watts’ 5th year as a actor in the Tiki Oasis Tiki Market, which annually welcomes hundreds of Tikiphiles to browse some of the best carvings, art and commodity the tiki apple has to offer. This year’s accident aswell marks the admission of Watts’ aboriginal collaborations with Skinny Dog Design, acclaimed for their custom argent jewelry. Also of note, a new Moai-themed book by Watts will be appear alongside biographer James Teitelbaum’s latest work, "Big Stone Head", an e-book for which Watts provided “virtual awning art”.
Watts has afresh created awning art for album releases by Kava Kon and Skip Heller on Dionysus Records, an absolute almanac characterization which afresh acclaimed it's 26th anniversary.
Galleries area Heather Watts’ artwork has been apparent cover La Luz de Jesus, Black Maria Gallery, The Shooting Gallery, M Modern Gallery, Roq la Rue, Strychnin (Berlin), Copro/Nason and Harold Golen Gallery a allotment of others. Her aboriginal abandoned appearance was captivated at M Modern Gallery, Las Vegas, in May 2007. Her plan was aswell featured on the awning of Tiki Magazine in the winter of 2007/08.
Publicity acquaintance for Heather Watts: Lee Joseph Publicity.
leejemail@gmail.com, 818-848-2698 (p) 818-848-2699 (f)
Heather Watts website: www.heatherwatts.com
Contact Lee Joseph for high-res images of Watts’ paintings.
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