John Watkins

John Watkins was the kind of person who treated libraries like second homes, spending his days sketching the shelves others took for granted. His drawings of the late John Forster’s library look like frozen conversations between books—each spine a clue to a life once lived. Hunt down View of the library of the late Mr John Forster and notice how the light falls on a bust of Shakespeare in the corner; Watkins didn’t just record objects, he traced the quiet hum of the past still clinging to them.