Alexander Creswell photographed working in Watts's Great Studio.
Photograph by Nick Wood: http://www.nickwoodphoto.com/
                                                                                                                                     
THE BIG IDEA: WORKING IN WATTS'S GREAT STUDIO
The purpose of my time spent working in Watts’s Great Studio during 2011 has been to explore the idea of magnitude in painting. Watts painted some of his greatest works in this studio, a space built specifically to work on paintings whose magnitude had outgrown his London studio. Watts wasn’t afraid to tackle paintings whose size and intent were massive.  The knowledge that he had carried out such work in this space gave me the idea that working in his shadow, so to speak, would enable me to think on a much bolder scale than before. The confines of my domestic working environment at home hadn’t prevented me from painting some very big watercolours in the past, but working in Watts’s studio would give me the opportunity to explore a grander intent in a larger space. Magnitude was, for me, the word of the year...
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