Miche Watkins

United Kingdom  • 1953

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Miche Watkins is an English artist born in 1953 in Wrington, UK. He studied Fine Arts at the University of the West of England and then began drawing studies which he did not finish due to divorce at the same time, forcing him to abandon his studies to find a job. In 2001, he became independent as a portrait artist, working on commission and living from this work. In his studio near Bristol, he paints portraits of clients in a series of sessions, working from the real person or from photographs. His favorite painting technique is oil, but he also uses pastels, charcoal and pencil. Always interested in figurative art and he taught drawing for many years in his hometown of Wrington. He later moved to Cape Town where galleries let him know that his portraits would not be popular in South Africa. He then decides to go completely the opposite of portraiture by making paintings without any detail, just modern acrylic paintings, fun and elegant on a pure white canvas, but drawn with a strong and bold black outline. Since 2002, he exhibits regularly in the United Kingdom, notably in Bristol.
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Painting - 91.4 x 61 cm

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Miche Watkins is an English artist born in 1953 in Wrington, UK. He studied Fine Arts at the University of the West of England and then began drawing studies which he did not finish due to divorce at the same time, forcing him to abandon his studies to find a job. In 2001, he became independent as a portrait artist, working on commission and living from this work. In his studio near Bristol, he paints portraits of clients in a series of sessions, working from the real person or from photographs. His favorite painting technique is oil, but he also uses pastels, charcoal and pencil. Always interested in figurative art and he taught drawing for many years in his hometown of Wrington. He later moved to Cape Town where galleries let him know that his portraits would not be popular in South Africa. He then decides to go completely the opposite of portraiture by making paintings without any detail, just modern acrylic paintings, fun and elegant on a pure white canvas, but drawn with a strong and bold black outline. Since 2002, he exhibits regularly in the United Kingdom, notably in Bristol.

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The year of birth of the artist is: 1953