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Alastair Fiddes Watt was born in Paris.
When he returned to Scotland in 1987, he found the varied landscape of
East Lothian with its hills, woods and coast line awe-inspiring.
He spent much time sketching what he saw before him building up a kind
of case-book, as he describes it, of his new surroundings. Fiddes
Watt's landscapes luxuriate with colour; his skies are intense and the
distant vista of hills mottled with greys and blues. He captures that
peculiarly Scottish luminosity of light and frequently travels to the
north west Highlands to paint. Fiddes Watt continues to take his inspiration from the natural world
showing how the landscape can change moment by moment. Fiddes Watt has
a masterly use of colour. He can capture on one hand the
extraordinary
as shown in Annat Red and on the other the subtle changes that the
light can bring in Squall over Annat.
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