Watercolour Melt Blue Texture
(2024)

Watercolour Melt Blue Texture, 2024 challenges conventional understandings of watercolour, a medium often linked to lightness, delicacy, and flatness. Embracing and disrupting these traditions, the work draws on established techniques while pushing their boundaries to reframe watercolour within a contemporary, process-driven context. Four washes in varying shades of blue were frozen into pigment-infused ice blocks and left to melt naturally onto stretched Winsor & Newton hot press 300gsm paper. Exposed to the atmospheric conditions of Winter 2024, the process slowed, taking ten days for the water to evaporate and the surface to dry. This durational element introduced chance, material agency, and environmental contingency, echoing the ethos of Post-Minimalism and Process Art while remaining grounded in watercolour’s material language. The resulting circular forms, layered in tone and texture, embody both control and surrender, celebrating the medium’s layers and fluidity.