Subsequent to graduating with honours from the Ontario College of Art and Design two decades ago, and with over forty exhibitions in her aesthetic archive, Watson is a Toronto-based mid-career artist whose ample success and recognition, both critically (an abundance of high profile coverage by top art media, writers and curators) and commercially (an impressive array of private and corporate collectors amidst an ongoing curve of public exposure) has achieved the acclamation level one might associate more with a senior artist with many years behind their professional practice. In an age of ever accelerating technological innovations, there’s something reassuring, maybe even fetishistic, about such a devotion to the art of physical painting on tangible surfaces we can actually touch. This physical empathy is even more evident in an avid adherence to the classical modernist realm of biomorphic abstraction, and in her devotion to the deeply human element of perceptual mindfulness.