About Rupert A Watkins
I was born on April 3rd, 1967 to a Barbadian mother and a Bahamian father from Stanyard Creek, Andros.
I was raised in the Bahamas where I became interested in art and found out it was natural to me so I decided to pursue it. Art became a way of expressing myself after years of studying and practicing various religions e.g. Yoga, Transcendental Consciousness Initiation; Self Initiation (The Golden Dawn, Ausarian Religion of Egypt), and Yoruba. I have also been trained in Reiki which is a Japanese human energy field healing art. I am a self-taught artist who has not had any formal training.
Art became a way to communicate with the higher self. I usually ignore my visual idea of a painting because it is just a trigger – the non-visual, exciting, healing, feeling is the real painting. I am just as excited as the average observer to see the final outcome of the artwork. The canvas, to me, is the interplay of the dimensional realities: the inter-dimensional, and our, so-called, reality. I enjoy sculpturing on canvas by manipulating the Acrylic Mixed Medium (archival acrylic mixed paper and toothpick) to achieve and capture this energy.
When the painting comes from deep within the inner-self it’s as if you are unhindered – you are somewhat unaware of the senses. As the painting unfolds you are amazed at how it is becoming tangible. Once it has been completed you view it as if you had never seen it before - just as naïve as the viewer seeing it for the first time.
I was raised in the Bahamas where I became interested in art and found out it was natural to me so I decided to pursue it. Art became a way of expressing myself after years of studying and practicing various religions e.g. Yoga, Transcendental Consciousness Initiation; Self Initiation (The Golden Dawn, Ausarian Religion of Egypt), and Yoruba. I have also been trained in Reiki which is a Japanese human energy field healing art. I am a self-taught artist who has not had any formal training.
Art became a way to communicate with the higher self. I usually ignore my visual idea of a painting because it is just a trigger – the non-visual, exciting, healing, feeling is the real painting. I am just as excited as the average observer to see the final outcome of the artwork. The canvas, to me, is the interplay of the dimensional realities: the inter-dimensional, and our, so-called, reality. I enjoy sculpturing on canvas by manipulating the Acrylic Mixed Medium (archival acrylic mixed paper and toothpick) to achieve and capture this energy.
When the painting comes from deep within the inner-self it’s as if you are unhindered – you are somewhat unaware of the senses. As the painting unfolds you are amazed at how it is becoming tangible. Once it has been completed you view it as if you had never seen it before - just as naïve as the viewer seeing it for the first time.