Watercolours & Coloured Pencil Drawings

Recent watercolours have evolved as free interpretations, fully embracing runs, drips and tidemarks that develop naturally from an improvisational technique, drawn with the brush (ie without preliminary pencil marks) in front of the subject. An interest in plant forms, light, movement and patterns of growth and change initiates each work, as if the painting is only a moment in a continuum, like a series of written letters. Many recent watercolours are created working in the Mediterranean region on hard paper in hot conditions, accentuating the notational, rhythmical marks, resembling handwriting.

Coloured pencil drawings share the watercolours’ open relationship to the bare paper, as well as the feeling that they are not resolved, simply left in a point of ongoing mutation..