This book is by friends, colleagues and family of Donald Watson, the artist and writer who passed away in 2005. I can’t review it as I wrote a glowing Foreword for the book itself and was delighted and felt honoured to be asked.
This book of nine chapters, by seven authors, brought a person I never met (and therefore only ‘knew’ from his art and writing) alive to me. I’m glad the accounts of him makes him out to be a good man as well as a talented one.
There are many of his drawings and paintings in the book, stories about him and selections of writing that most won’t have seen before.
Donald Watson: bird artist and writer is edited by Roger Crofts and has a variety of contributors and is published by Whittles.
I know of two book launches in late April:
FRIDAY 25 APRIL 2025 – 2pm
DONALD WATSON – BIRD ARTIST & WRITER
JOIN CHRIS ROLLIE & ROGER CROFTS
ST JOHN’S TOWN OF DALRY TOWN HALL
Copies available, £17.99
Watson cards & posters also available for sale
Refreshments provided
SATURDAY 26 APRIL 2025 – 2pm
DONALD WATSON – BIRD ARTIST & WRITER
JOIN THE AUTHORS
SOC HQ ABERLADY EH32 0PY
Copies available, £17.99
Watson cards & posters for sale
Refreshments available
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