YANNIMA TOMMY WATSON - IRIKA

 YANNIMA TOMMY WATSON
IRIKA,  2015
181 x 305 cm
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
 
PROVENANCE
Wanarn, WA
Yanda Art, NTPrivate Collection, ParisCooee Art, NSW 
 
STORY
This place is called Irika, Ngayuku tjamaku ngura, my Grandfather's country and my Mother's country - Tommy Watson ā€�Watson is a master of invention. Each painting tells a specific story, but the most impressive feature is the artistā€™s use of colourā€¦. Like Matisse, Watson knows that one may have warm and cool shades of red, warm and cool shades of blue. But he knows this instinctively, without any formal training. What he knows cannot be verbalised, and cannot be taught, yet no one could see these paintings and not be convinced of its profundity".ā€“ John McDonald, Art Critic, Sydney Morning Herald