Thomas Aldren Dingman Watson is drawn to the elemental qualities of nature, an interest he credits to a lifetime spent outdoors and that shapes his focus on the landscapes where water, land, and air converge. “Cape Cod Light” depicts Highland Light in North Truro, Massachusetts, the oldest and tallest lighthouse on Cape Cod, originally built in 1797 to mark the dangerous sandbars and shoals along the coast. Of the work, Watson writes, “When I was a boy, I lived nearby, and the beam from this lighthouse flashed across my bedroom ceiling as the lens rotated. To me, it represents both a comforting emblem of [protection] and an ominous reminder of the dangers of the untamed Atlantic Ocean.”
Watson is a third-generation artist known for his representational oil landscapes of Cape Cod and the Adirondacks. His work is in the collection of the Cape Cod Museum of Art, in private collections worldwide, and has been published by Viking Press and David R. Godine Publishers. He is a recipient of a St. Botolph Club Foundation Visual Artist Award.
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