Allison Watson’s paintings are represented in over 600 public, private, and corporate collections nationally. She began her professional career as a studio artist in her twenties and is well known for her vivid depictions of the wild places of her native Florida. She has had over thirty solo exhibitions. She has taught painting for more than 30 years at art centers, art museums, and in her studio. She holds painting workshops nationally.

Allison is a fifth generation native of north Florida and is a avid kayaker. As a lifelong environmentalist, the beauty and mystery of Florida’s wild places are the inspiration behind her landscape paintings. Allison grew up on the St Johns River and tributaries in addition to the woods, springs, and lakes of Florida. She began painting and drawing before she was a teenager; a painting career was her ambition at a very early age. A formal art education was not an option, so she is completely self-taught.

 “To be a professional artist was my ambition for as long as I can remember.   It is a great joy to share information with students and to see new painters discover the joy of making art. It is also wonderful to know that my work is represented in so many collections. Artists paint what they love and what they know. I grew up exploring the nature of wild Florida and have a great love and spiritual connection to that world; therefore, I know how beautiful and fragile it is, and how important it is to preserve these wild places”.