My Name is Wade Watson

My name is Wade Watson and this is blog-style website I decided to create about art-- my own art and that of others that interests me. Art has always been an integral aspect of my life whether it was my primary occupation or not. One of my earliest memories is my first experience with watercolor painting. I was a toddler and at the kitchen table of my next door neighbor, Amy, painting with her. The first thing I did was drop a huge glob of brown paint right in the middle. When Amy's mother, Jean, asked me what it was, I said it was God dropping food to Earth. I suppose I didn't entirely understand grocery stores just yet. I painted clouds above the glob and ground below it. The point was, though, that I converged a random "accident" with creation and made a work from that. To me this is the essence of art. Our lives are totally at the mercy of random events that can be seen as either disasters or spring points for creative action. Art can never be entirely an intellectual creation, but must emerge from those "accidents" that force us to express our innermost feelings and ideas.