Peggy Watkins (b. 1963)
Reflecting, 2024
signed "Watkins" lower right
oil on canvas, 30 by 24 in.
Peggy Watkins was drawn to animals from a young age. She studied at the Atlanta College of Art and lives and works in the Carolinas, creating sporting and wildlife art paintings in the "impressionistic realism" category. Among other honors, her work is in the permanent collection of the Bennington Center for the Arts in Vermont.
This painting of a pointer with pheasant captures a proud sporting dog resting after a successful hunt.