Angels, Comets, Abstracts 

Richard Jesse Watson is a fine artist and illustrator.

His art shape~shifts between realism and abstraction, often combining the two.

“My longings manifest as I weave the weft of reality into the warp of abstract.

Imagining myself into an elsewhere jump starts my creative mojo; exploring that curiouser and curiouser unknown ~

those oh-so-many worlds waiting..”

Richard Jesse Watson

  • "Watson's exquisite paintings radiate texture, feeling and mood."

    Chicago Sun Times

  • Kirkus Review proclaims Watson's art, "exuberant".

    Kirkus

  • "Richard Jesse Watson's Tom Thumb [paintings] will take your breath away."

    Connoisseur

  • "Watson's artwork achieves a startling blend of the ancient and the timeless."

    Publishers Weekly

  • "Richard Watson's use of egg tempera echoes the realism of Dürer."

    Los Angeles Times

  • "Watson's paintings from Tom Thumb are intricately detailed..."

    The New York Times

  • "His work is a process of thinking: …to balance and nod to the extremes on either end of an idea.”

    Kristin Tollefson, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art

  • "Watson's egg-tempera paintings are at once powerful and dark, lyrical and decorative, compelling and full of light-all the while being meticulously and exquisitely crafted."

    Barry Moser