Watson was born in Gateshead in 1937. He studied at Durham University and taught in the sculpture department at Newcastle Polytechnic. Watson has shown work with the Newcastle Group in the 1960s, in the exhibitions Northern Sculptors (1967) and Figurative Art North (1972). Since the 1970s, he has carved a series of familiar, domestic objects in wood or stone. In 1992, while Fellow at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Watson made Bookstack, a carving in granite which depicted a pile of fifteen books, for a site at the University of Northumbria. Commissions include Inside Outside for Gateshead and a series of works comprising free-standing sculptures, way-markers and benches for a redevelopment scheme at Chester-le-Street as part of the Year of Visual Arts in 1996. In 2002 a granite sculpture, Media Studies, was commissioned by Wingfield Arts Centre. Watson lives and works in Northumberland.Four stone carvings were shown at Cheeseburn Stables in 2016 and his wood carving there in 2017. Works Still Life Springwell stone carved 1985183x206x127 cmWestgate Town Centre Unveiled by Jilly CooperCommissioned by Harlow Art Trust Still Life was Watson’s first major public commission. Originally, it was due to be made in red brick but the artist offered a carving […]