Tyler Watson

Tyler Watson caught the eye of Sir Paul Smith and Liberty London. His paintings suspend domestic objects into nightmarish yet strangely beautiful scenes – the familiar made strange, the overlooked made monumental. There is dark wit in his work, and real painterly confidence in his ability to transform the mundane.

Artist statement

In my practice I reimagine the most domestic and mundane of objects as if they were held in higher esteem. This has become a commentary on the often overlooked importance of everyday life. The somewhat disjointed nature between the paint, the image and myself, becomes apparent as I tend to subtract my own emotion from the painting, leaving the image to speak its own truth. Inspired by artists such as Philip Guston, a painter from the New York School, I began reflecting more deeply on the details of my everyday surroundings. The mundane became a symbol of daily ritual. A symbol I was then drawn to incorporate in my artwork as a glimpse of his everyday life as an artist.