As Canada’s first internationally celebrated landscape artist, Homer Watson was no stranger to travel. Throughout his career, he travelled extensively across Canada, the United States and Europe. While the well-established art scene in Europe tempted Watson, he inevitably chose to return to Doon (now Kitchener), realizing that no place inspired him as much as the familiar landscape of his birthplace. Close to Home celebrates Watson’s love of his hometown, featuring several rarely seen local paintings from the Homer Watson House & Gallery permanent collection.