Ms. Watson is a life long resident of North Florida. She began her profession as a studio artist in her early twenties. She has worked as an animator, illustrator, textile artist, art teacher, licensed interior decorator, and art teacher on the staff of the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens.
Ms. Watson paints from her own photographs of Florida as well as other remote places from her kayaking and hiking travels. As a life long environmentalist, her creations manifest her love of nature. Her works are represented in over three hundred and fifty public and private collections in the United States and abroad.
Ms Watson began her profession as studio artists in her early twenties. She has worked as an animator, illustrator, textile artist, and art teacher and as a licensed interior designer. Her work is represented in more than five hundred private, public and corporate collections nationally and internationally. She has had over thirty solo exhibitions including shows at major universities and museums as well as many group shows. Some collectors include Florida National Banks, Dean Witter Reynolds Inc., Jacksonville Office of the Mayor, Baptist Medical Center, Amazon Expeditions, Accustaff, Marriott Hotels, South Trust Banks, Southern Bell, Atlantic National Banks and Sheraton Hotels and The Jacksonville Library. Ms Watson is a life long resident of North Florida and paints from her own landscape photography taken in North Florida and the South East as well as international locations. Watson's life long passion for the environment is evident in her landscape paintings that reflect the beauty of many endangered wetlands, upland forests and beaches of the South.