“My personal artwork has always been inspired by the distinctive and spiritual nature of an African American experience. I hope to stir the viewer’s spirit and their curiosity with my work by capturing this human experience in moments of reflection, celebration, healing and despair. The ideas emerge from observed encounters, which are then developed into more interpretive, sometimes-mysterious visual imagery on paper. I would like to think the complexity of the work is not in the technique, but in the ideas behind them.” - ED WATKINS
MIXED MEDIA
"TAKE ME TO THE WATER" Mixed Media Drawing
"Self Portrait #6" Mixed Media and Collage
"Every Sunday Morning" Mixed Media
"PREPARING FOR THE GIANT" Mixed Media Drawing
"AT THE WELL" Mixed Media
"PICK UP YOUR BED" JOHN 5:1-8 Mixed Media Drawing
"BREATHE" Black Lives Matter Mixed Media Drawing
"THE RAVEN" 1 KINGS 17 Mixed Media Drawing
"DORCUS" ACTS 9:36-42 Drawing
"SURRENDER JONES" Ferguson Missouri Riot 8/2014 after the death of Michael Brown Mixed Media Drawing
"WAKE UP!" “Detroit Will Breathe” March 6/2020 Charcoal
"THE VIRTUAL BASS LESSON" Mixed Media Drawing
"THE WHOOP SHACK" Mixed Media Drawing
"PAULA" Color Pencil Drawing
"PREACH JENNINGS" Series - How shall they hear without a Preacher... Mixed Media Drawing
PREACH CHAPMEN – Matthew 8 Series - How shall they hear without a Preacher... Mixed Media Drawing
PREACH MARBLE – MATTHEW 4:19 Series - How shall they hear without a Preacher... Mixed Media Drawing
PREACH TURNER – MATTHEW 13:46 Series - How shall they hear without a Preacher... Mixed Media Drawing
"MARCIA @ 908" Figure is Marcia (Keith) Watkins at 908 S. Front St., Hamilton, OH Mixed Media Drawing
“TO BE OR NOT TO BE" Mixed Media
"AL'S LOST Mixed Media
"JUST MAD SOMETIMES" Conte'' Crayon
"LAST WALK" Conte' Crayon
"JAZZ COLLAGE" Collage
"AFRASCAPE #1" Mixed Media
"AFRASCAPE #2" Mixed Media
"WHAT SHE WANTS" Mixed Media
"WHAT HE WANTS" Mixed Media
"LEGACY" Mixed Media
PRINTS
"PUT ON THE WHOLE ARMOUR" Digital Lithographic Print
"The Draw" (Self-portrait) Waterless Plate Lithographic Print
"Surrender Grace" Waterless Plate Lithographic Print
"Surrender Frog" Polyester Plate Lithographic Print
"Surrender Pock" Flint Institute of Art, Collection of American Artist - 2021 Polyester Plate Lithographic Print
"Introspection in Black" Polyester Plate Lithographic Print
"Cathy" Polyester Plate Lithographic Print
Art Man Pigment Print
"SCHOOLING" Polyester Plate Lithographic Print
"SEAT OF POWER" Stone Lithographic Print
"TRIBAL DANCE" Stone Lithographic Print
"Cathy #2" Wood cut Print
"JONESZ OFF PINGREE AVE." Polyester Plate Lithographic Print
"Avery’s Backyard" Polyester Plate Lithographic Print