Tag: landscape painting

Watercolour has a gentle way of slowing us down. It asks us to look a little closer and let small moments guide the brush. In this article, we meet five women who each have their own relationship with the medium—whether they’re sketching gardens, carrying paint on the road, teaching beginners, or building a lifelong practice. Their styles differ, but they’re all connected by the simple act of noticing the world and returning to the page with care.

Remember that feeling when you’re standing on the edge of something vast, sea, cliff, sky, and for a moment nothing else matters? That’s the world that Caspar David Friedrich often invites us into. Born in 1774 in northern Germany, Friedrich became one of the key figures of the German Romantic movement.What he did differently was simple yet profound: he stopped treating landscapes as just backdrops and made them the main subject. Mountains, mist, sea, these were not just places, they were experiences.  His paintings were slower than many modern works, built…