Jennifer Watt was born in Dumfries and graduated from Duncan Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee. She lived and worked in Lincolnshire for 27 years before returning to her home near Thornhill in 2000.
Her sculptural work consists of pieces in many mediums including wood, cement, stone and Limited Edition work in bronze and resin.
Jennifer has exhibited regularly at Visual Arts Scotland in Edinburgh where she won the Powderhall Bronze Award in 2007. She also won the Inverarity One to One Travel Award in 2010, the West College Scotland Award for Sculpture 2014 and the by Distinction Art Awqard in 2015.
Jennifer searches to create work which achieves an emotional response. She is moved by simple forms, clean and void of any unnecessary components, sculpture sincere to its form, material and surface.
The process of creating has been a must for Jennifer for a very long time and the materials she uses vary according to the task in hand. She works mostly in stone, cement and clay. The clay and cement are cast in either bronze or resin, both in limited editions.