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Beryl Watson is a visual artist who lives in Mount Vernon, New York.<\/p>\n

She grew up in the New York suburbs in the 60s and 70s and attended Hartford Art School, where she studied under artists like\u00a0Rita Myers<\/a> and Jack Goldstein<\/a>. She completed her BFA at\u00a0the\u00a0School of Visual Arts<\/a> in New York.<\/p>\n

“I wanted to be at the pulse of the art world. The New York music scene was also a large attraction and influence. Clubs like CBGB, Max’s Kansas City and the Mudd Club were alive with punk and alternative music. Music and art blended together. This was also a time when artists lived and worked in lower Manhattan and there were more\u00a0galleries than high-end store fronts in Soho.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

At SVA, she studied with artists like\u00a0Anton Van Dalen<\/a>, Juan Gonzalez<\/a> and May Stevens<\/a> and painted mainly from life with live models.<\/p>\n

\u201cI discovered that my paintings worked best when I worked quickly to capture a feeling in the moment. I want my painting to be fluid and fresh: brushstrokes, texture, splattering, bleeding one color into the next.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

After SVA, she worked in the antiques and fine furniture\u00a0department of ABC Carpet & Home and continued to paint. She married journalist Tom Watson<\/a>, and together they raised three children.<\/p>\n

For the last decade, Beryl\u00a0has worked under the\u00a0direction of artist Eleanor Grace Miller<\/a> at the Pelham Art Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“The creative and supportive \u00a0environment working among other artist along with the guidance of Eleanor has been a major influence on my\u00a0painting.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

In recent years she has developed her own painting technique.\u00a0First, she\u00a0<\/strong>primed watercolor paper and then applied oils thinned down with turpentine and cold pressed linseed oil. allowing her to manipulate the oil paint with the fluidness of watercolors.<\/p>\n

“I found that this method of painting to lend itself to my\u00a0need to paint quickly and work from the same image over and over creating a series of work that stand together as a unit.”
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One day while working in the studio she discovered\u00a0that she was out of watercolor paper and decided to use a pad of \u00a0YUPO watercolor paper that is made of 100 percent polypropylene. Though not intended for use with oil paints, she found this slick filmy surface suited her method of mixing and allowing paint to bleed to create her vision of the image.<\/p>\n

“I\u00a0craved the fluidness of watercolor but needed the color intensity and richness found only in oils. This technique provides both. My exploration continues.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Selected Exhibitions<\/h6>\n

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