Priscilla Watkins
Drawn to the way light interacts with the water, this Brixton-based mixed media artist has been immortalising her local lido for nearly two decades.
Like so many mums, I used to take my kids to the lido when they were little. It was back in the days when you were allowed to take photographs in public pools, and one time I took a disposable underwater camera with me. When I got the pictures developed from Boots, a few photos I had randomly shot underwater fell out of the wallet and I was entranced. I couldn’t believe these images of headless swimmers. I had been looking for a new subject to paint and thought, well, I’ll paint them then.
To get photographic
