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by Kate Downes 28 April 2025
Our tips on using your artworks to represent what makes you unique, in your home or at your workplace
by Kate Downes 25 February 2025
"This photograph is personal. Scotland is my home and I think we did Glencoe proud."
by Kate Downes 30 December 2024
One of our favourite ways to look back on the year past is through our installation photos. These are the times we get to see what our artists’ work looks like when it reaches the homes or workplaces of our clients – for us, that’s really what it’s all about.
by Kate Downes 13 December 2024
by Kate Downes 8 November 2024
Each work has its own narrative, in which Jane highlights the details and themes of the piece. In 'Masters of Skullduggery,' Jane reimagines the infamous Burke and Hare as two hares surrounded by skulls and corpse lights as evidence of their misdeeds… “Oh, these two are really bad boys… William Hare and William Burke, show committed a series of murders in 1828. They sold the corpses to Dr. Robert Knox for dissection in his lectures in anatomy. To make things more nefarious, when captured Hare turned King’s evidence against Burke and Burke was hanged. His body was donated to the anatomy class; it can still be seen today. Hare disappeared. A fitting story for dark Scottish nights…”
by Kate Downes 6 April 2024
A look back at some of our favourite artwork installations from Watson clients' homes, and our take on what made the artworks work so well in each space...
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