Alison Watt (writer)

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Alison Watt (born 1957) is a Canadian writer, and painter born in

naturalist aboard the west coast schooner Maple Leaf, sailing among British Columbia's Gulf Islands, Haida Gwaii, the Great Bear Rainforest, and Alaska
. She has taught art to adults since 1995, in her studio on Protection Island, Nanaimo, BC, in other venues. Since 2020 she has offered courses online, through her business ARTWORK ARTPLAY.

Career

Watt's book

Amazon Research station and explore taxonomy and diversity. In others, she moves past nature as a backdrop to delve more deeply into its inner, often invisible workings, such as photosynthesis and pollination, to release them from the language of science.[citation needed
] Her novel, "Dazzle Patterns" set in Halifax during and after the explosion of 1917, and in the battlefields of France, is a story about loss, the resilience of the human spirit, and the transformative power of art. It was a finalist for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award.

Dazzle Patterns[1] The book was a shortlisted finalist for the 2018 amazon.ca First Novel Award.[2] Watt has illustrated her published books.

A fine artist, she has had many solo and group shows. Her work ranges from formal

Malaspina University-College in Nanaimo. In addition she has taught watercolour and acrylic painting in her studio on Protection Island.[citation needed
]


Awards

Bibliography

  • The Last Island: A Naturalist's Sojourn on Triangle Island. Harbour Publishing.
  • Circadia. Pedlar Press.
  • Poems from the Basement. Leaf Press.
  • The Invention of Birds. Leaf Press.
  • "Dazzle Patterns". Freehand Books


References

  1. CBC Books
    , 7 December 2017.
  2. CBC Books
    , 28 April 2018.
  3. Archive-It
    2003: Alison Watt, (retrieved 17 November 2012)

External links

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