Roger Watt

After leaving art school in 1969, Roger embarked on a career in international magazine and fine art publishing, eventually becoming Group
Publishing Director of the Athena Group before becoming an art consultant (www.watt-art.com) in 1999, working primarily with leading international fine art print and greetings cards publishers.
Having inherited his passion for drawing and steam from his father, Roger has long been obsessed by the effect of light on metal and trying to obtain the highest level of finish from the most basic of materials, i.e. pencil and paper. His lifelong love of steam locomotives has proved to be one of the most fruitful sources of subject matter to this end and his drawings have been exhibited in London (including at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition), Los Angeles, in "Along Artistic Lines" at the NRM in 2004 and most recently in Vancouver, where he has lived with his wife (also an artist) and their two children, since 2005.
Roger lectures on drawing and illustration in Vancouver and is represented for illustration by Folio of London.