"La Galerie des Glaces, or Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, was the initial inspiration for Watson's latest series of paintings. Technology, contemporary figures, all juxtaposed with classical figures and settings, which Watson appropriated from European master paintings. Galerie des Glaces provokes viewers to reinterpret classical imagery, while exploring themes that are as relevant today as they were in the seventeenth century.

Galerie des Glaces takes a distinctive approach to contemporary realism and throws an unexpected twist of imagination, candidness, and finally idealism.

This is easily one of Watson's most vivid series of paintings."

Tom Wolfe-Schleswig
Toronto Associated Press

Untitled #2/2003
Oil on board
122 x 94 cm (4' x 3')
Sold
Private Collection, Denver, Colarado
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Untitled #3/2003 (after Ter Borch 1662)
Oil on board
122 x 94 cm (4' x 3')
Sold
Private Collection, Melbourne
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Untitled #4/2003 (after Stubbs 1793)
Oil on board
76 x 86 cm / 2'6" x 2'10"
Sold
Private Collection, Melbourne
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Untitled #5/2003 (after Constanzi 1736)
Oil on board
75 x 61 cm / 2'6" x 2'
Sold
Private Collection, Toronto
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Untitled #6/2003 (after Vermeer 1665)
Oil on board
56 x 51 cm / 1'10" x 2'
Sold
Private Collection, Melbourne
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Untitled #7/2003 (after Bronzino 1545)
Oil on board
61 x 56 cm / 2' x 1'10"
Sold
Private Collection, Melbourne
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Untitled #8/2003 (after Poussin 1630)
Oil on board
76 x 100 cm / 2'6" x 3'3"
Sold
Private Collection, Melbourne
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Untitled #9/2003 Ian Roberts (after Coypel 1709)
Oil on board
104 x 80 cm / 3'5" x 2'8"
Reserved by The National Portrait Gallery
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Untitled #10/03 (after Vermeer 1665)
Oil on board
92 x 92 cm
Sold
Private Collection, Melbourne
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Untitled #11/03 (after Bronzino 1540)
Oil on board
75 x 61 cm
Sold
Private Collection, Melbourne
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Untitled #12/03 (after Ter Borch 1655)
Oil on board
75 x 61 cm
Sold
Private Collection, Melbourne
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