Alison Watt
(b. 1965)
 

Alison Watt OBE FRSE RSA is a British painter who first came to national attention while still at college when she won the 1987 Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Watt's work has been widely exhibited. Her paintings are held in many public collections, including the National Portrait Gallery, London, Glasgow Museums, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Scottish Parliament Art Collection, Southampton City Art Gallery, the Freud Museum, London, The Fleming Collection, London, the British Council, and the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. In 2012, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery purchased her painting Self-portrait (1986/7) from her private collection for £20,000, to celebrate re-opening after a refurbishment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Watt_(Scottish_painter)

Sabine
2000
Oil on Canvas
213,5 x 231,5 cm
National Galleries Scotland
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/59538

 

Sabine comes from a series of four paintings entitled Shift that Watt showed in an exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 2000. She was inspired by the sensuous nature of the fabric that features in Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres's paintings of women. Watt found a way of representing the body using the shapes created in fabric, focusing on the suggestive power of material. In this monumental painting, the meticulously painted folds and creases of the fabric evoke the human figure and create a sense of rhythm and movement.