WATSON, BARBARA
Barbara married my father's cousin James Anthony Watson. He had been born in Durban, SA, but moved to England.
She was a keen botanical artist. A flyer of an exhibition along with Rupert Horsley in the Salisbury Library notes:
BARBARA WATSON is self-taught. She has painted flowers all her lifte and enjoys composition as all as botanical detail. She holds the Gold Medal of the Royal Horticultural Society, two Silver-Gilts, the Silver and Grenfell Medals. She has exhibited with the Society of Women Artists, the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, has had three Exhibitions in London, one in Salisbury and one in Hampshire. Some of her Flowers of Jordan were illsutrated in colour in the Bible Companion (and Anglo-American publication by Rainbird, McLean in 1958. In 1980 she had a feature article in 'Woman & Home' with full colour illustrations and in 1981 was interviewed on Southern T.V. at work and in her garden. Her pictures are privately owned in fifteen countries. [ LANDSCAPES IN WATERCOLOUR exhibition flyer]. You can find examples online.
