Watercolour

Introduction

I started working with watercolours around 2016, encouraged by a friend to give them a try. I spent a few years experimenting before landing on a way of working that feels like my own. I’m confident I don’t use watercolours “correctly,” but I’ve found a combination of materials including pens, paint markers, and other mixed media that help me get the results I’m after.

Watercolours have a mind of their own. They move, pool, and dry in unpredictable ways, and like most of the ways I work, I try not to control the outcome too much. I rarely begin with a specific idea. Usually I’ll start with a pool of colour or the rough outline of a figure, and let the rest unfold from there.

I tend to work small, most often around 4x4 inches. The text usually comes last, emerging spontaneously. The themes that surface in my paintings often reflect things I’m thinking about or struggling with: gender, housing, mental illness, poverty, the climate crisis, and more.

This page features a selection of my watercolour works.