Imprints extends Watts’ sculptural thinking into the language of surface, translating gesture into light and depth.
Each work is an echo of the body’s memory; movement suspended within layered planes.
Colour and texture act as vessels for reflection and resonance. Earth tones ground the work in continuity, while lighter pigments evoke breath, renewal and transcendence.
These hand-crafted pieces explore how presence leaves trace and how touch becomes memory. In this way, each imprint is not an image but an atmosphere. A quiet space for reflection and return.
Works begin as a trace, a line, a mark, a gesture that folds, flows and echoes spatial relationships. Colour moves with intent: earthy tones that root, vibrant hues that rise. Textures gather and disperse, inviting the eye to linger in quiet, suspended spaces.
Every painting is made attentively, allowing the work to breathe and carry the subtle resonance of presence, movement and layered experience.
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Liminal Reach
Gestures poised between approach and withdrawal trace thresholds and fleeting states of presence and possibility.
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Imprinted Rhythms
A visual echo of gesture and memory, tracing subtle movements through layered forms and suspended spaces.
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Within and Beyond
Figures and forms inhabit transitional spaces, exploring the tension between inner and outer worlds.
I paint with time
I paint with tension
Each mark recalls
what the body held
before words
Surface becomes language
Light becomes breath
Figures appear
not as monuments
but diminished
leaning
listening
What I Carry
Drawing upon my Zoroastrian ancestry and inspired by the symbolic language of the Mulla Kurgan Ossuary, this high-relief mixed media work explores the relationship between memory, ritual and architectural form.
Emerging through layered surfaces and sculpted ornament, the work inhabits a space between fragment and sanctuary. Architectural elements are reduced to their essential rhythms; arches, columns and flame become vessels through which traces of cultural memory persist.
Rather than reconstructing a specific place, the work evokes an imagined threshold where material, light and remembrance gather in stillness. The central flame acts not only as a symbolic presence but as a point of quiet continuity, suggesting the endurance of ancestral narratives across time.
What I Carry
A Place Between Places
A Place Between Places
This high-relief mixed media work explores architecture as a repository of memory. Composed of simplified forms and compressed spatial relationships, the piece reflects on how places continue to exist within us long after they have been left behind.
The structures appear simultaneously solid and transient, suspended between presence and recollection. Reduced to essential volumes and openings, they become containers for remembered experience rather than representations of specific buildings.
The work inhabits a threshold between interior and exterior, permanence and impermanence. It seeks to capture a moment of stillness; a place held briefly in memory before it recedes once again into the landscape of the past.
Passage of Light
This mixed media relief explores the experience of crossing a threshold. A solitary figure stands within an architectural passage, poised between zones of opacity and illumination.
Translucent fluorescent acrylic planes create a shifting field of light that changes according to the viewer's position, while darker solid panels establish a counterpoint of enclosure and shadow. Together these elements form a space that is both physical and psychological.
The figure appears suspended within a moment of transition; neither arriving nor departing, but inhabiting the uncertainty between. The work considers thresholds not as boundaries to be crossed but as places in themselves; sites of reflection, anticipation and quiet presence.
Passage of Light