Print of watercolour  'Estuary 579'

This watercolour is an imagining of the visual experience of being in the the estuary where I live. In this case it's all about that bit where you come in from the sea and start to be surrounded by land.

 I make the watercolours on a japanese paper with the idea of conveying what could be called 'direct experience', where I try to show the first building blocks of what it might be like to see a landscape for the first time. I use the simplest brush gesture to describe basic motifs of landscape; land, sky, water, tree and horizon with all the tones, compositions and relationships within. I think of these sometimes as 'bold glimpses'. There are more details about the watercolours on the main site.