Painter, printmaker, muralist, textile designer, ceramist and teacher. He attended Junior School of Art, Manchester, from age 13, 1936–8, then Manchester College of Art, 1939–40, leaving to work with Sir John Gielgud’s production of Macbeth. He served in Royal Navy, 1941–5, then gained a diploma at Central School of Arts and Crafts, 1946–8. Watson’s commissions included a mosaic mural in glass for Buckingham County Council in 1958; textiles for Tamesa Fabrics, 1968; an outdoor mural in Milton Keynes, 1977–8; a painting for Cranfield College, 1979; a ceramic mural for Wolverton Carriage Works in Milton Keynes, 1980–2; and three ceramic murals for schools there, 1983. In Watson’s paintings there was a twin allegiance to the English landscape tradition and to that of the German Expressionists.