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Denys Watkins

Auckland

live in a villa on the edge of the city. It has a large garden and the house is situated on the corner of the street. There are two studios, mine and my wife’s. She is a ceramist working with clay, whereas I mainly work in painted imagery and works on paper. I began a series of works in late 2019 before Covid. These loose concepts

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