Media and Reviews
Start Stratford Arts & Culture Magazine, December 2010. Interview and photographs by Ann Baggley.
"Exploring Lives Lived, Landscapes Scarred". Mike Beitz, The Beacon Herald, January 16, 2012.
"Watts’s egg temp[e]ras glow with alchemical mist, and mystery. Her paintings of emptied prisons radiate, appropriately, with smiling, but secretive, information, calm but calculated power. And her felt-soft greys appear poached from the fraught heavens." -- R.M. Vaughan, "Eye candy – and food for thought, too". The Globe and Mail. Published Friday, Feb. 03, 2012 5:00PM EST.
CTV interview with Mark Paine at Gallery Stratford on The Beat. Broadcast Saturday, February 4, 2012.
"Picture Perfect". Laura Cudworth, The Beacon Herald, May 3, 2013.
"The 7 Best Paintings in the BP Portrait Award 2013". Steve Pill, Artists and Illustrators, June 19, 2013.
"BP Portrait Award in Pictures". The Telegraph, June 20, 2013.
"BP Portrait Exhibition 2013 - Video & Review". Katherine Tyrrell, Making a Mark, June 21, 2013.
"If you thought painting was like riding a bike..." Leslie Scrivener, The Toronto Star, June 24, 2014.
"Mi Blog Es Tu Blog - Leslie Watts". Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco - News, August 14, 2014.
Christopher Baker: BP Portrait Award 2014. An arts-news clip produced by Summerhall TV, Art in Scotland TV, January 15, 2015.
Making Following Heart with Leslie Watts, Finn Harries, JacksGap, February 1, 2015
BP Portrait Award 2014: Exhibition Highlights. National Galleries Scotland, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, accessed February 16, 2015.
"High standard of work at #BPPortrait Award @NPGLondon; great to meet @lesliewattsart whose diptych is a particular ornament of the show" - Stephen Smith @StephenSmithBBC on Twitter, June 17, 2015
"What to Make of This Year's BP Portrait Award?" Tabish Khan, The Londonist, June 18, 2015.
"BP Portrait 2015 - Artists with their paintings." Katherine Tyrrell, Making a Mark, June 25, 2015.
"Kingston Prize Showcases Canada's Best Portraiture." Pam McLennan, Epoch Times, October 20, 2015.
"An Interview with Photo(sur)realist Painter Leslie Watts." Lisa Takahashi, Jackson's Art Blog, June 22, 2017.
"Lillie Langtry and the Evolution of the Muse." Róisín McVeigh, Mall Galleries Blog, May 17, 2019.