Emma Watson

I love the idea of imperfection.

Imperfection 1 imperfectness 2 fault, blemish
1 deficiency, inadequacy, incompleteness
2 blemish, defect, deficiency, error, failing, fault, flaw, foible, frailty, infirmity, peccadillo, shortcoming,weakness.

John Ruskin wrote 'imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be, rigidly perfect; part of it is decaying, part nascent........ And in all things that live there are certain irregularities and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy'.

This was my moment of clarity. Reading this quote allowed me to let go and not have pre-conceived ideas of what is expected...

George Street School of Art (Scotland)1996
University of Strathclyde (Scotland) 2002
University of Strathclyde (Scotland) 2006

Yellow Door Art Gallery December 2016
Hartexpo Barcelona May 2017
Currently exhibiting in Art Nou Millenni Gallery, Barcelona Summer 2017
Art Room Gallery, Dumfries, Scotland 5th-31st August 2017
Upcoming Exhibitions

Ottersburn Gallery, Dumfries, Scotland 17th April- 7th May 2018
Spring Fling (Scotland's premier visual art and contemporary craft open studios event) Dumfries and Galloway. 26th-28th of May 2018