Tag: watercolor artist
Annett Coumont creates atmospheric watercolour paintings that transform forests, mist, reflections, and fading light into emotional spaces filled with stillness and connection. Living in Germany’s Bergisches Land region, she draws inspiration from daily walks through woods, meadows, and quiet landscapes where shifting weather, birdsong, and changing light become part of her visual language. After a serious illness in 2023 forced her away from professional life, painting became both a refuge and a turning point, reconnecting her to creativity in a deeply personal way. Her approach to modern watercolour moves far beyond…
Reihaneh Shahali creates watercolor paintings filled with stillness, atmosphere, and emotional warmth, transforming everyday subjects into places that feel deeply familiar. Working between sketchbooks and larger compositions, she paints flowers, boats, quiet streets, and figures with a softness that allows the paper to breathe alongside the color. Although she works professionally as a software developer, painting has remained a constant part of her life, becoming more serious after university when she began focusing fully on watercolor. Influenced by mood more than perfection, her process centers on balance, leaving space within each…
Nadja Eleonora Milsten’s work sits in the space between doubt and trust. Her watercolor figures feel present but unfinished, shaped as much by emotion as by restraint. Some of her strongest paintings are the ones she almost abandoned—set aside for months until time changed how she saw them. Moving from oils to watercolor during a turning point in her life, she stopped painting for expectation and began painting from instinct. Her practice isn’t about certainty. It’s about letting doubt exist, stepping away when needed, and trusting that what doesn’t make sense…
Malu Urruspuru paints from instinct rather than concept. Her birds, animals, and faces emerge from feeling, not performance offering a deeply human reflection on creativity, limitation, and the strength found in beginning again.
Patricia Frederick makes a mark on canvas and then waits to see what it wants to become. In this interview, the retired art educator talks about her process-based approach to painting, the difficulty of trusting gut feeling over years of design training, and how her work has turned into a way of investigating consciousness. She discusses what happens when paintings show her thoughts before she recognizes them, why she stays away from anything resembling a horizon line, and what she means when she says her work is supposed to act as…
In this interview, Lebanese visual artist Rania El Osta speaks about moving from Medical Sciences to painting, the influence of family memory, and why birds and old houses continue to appear in her work. She shares how observation, color, and lived experience shape her process, and what it means to carry images of Lebanon beyond its borders.
In this interview, Sokhna Mariama talks about migration, nature, and working across different mediums. She shares how her life between Dakar and Italy shaped her way of seeing, how ideas guide her process, and how her projects invite people to take part rather than only observe.
In this interview, Elodie Martin talks about how her childhood in Arles, her time exploring visual arts and her return to hand embroidery all come together in the pieces she creates today. She explains how she chooses her materials, how she moves between Lunéville crochet and needle work, and how works like Splinters of rose form a space where memory, care and the pace of nature meet. Her insights offer a close look at the thoughtful, steady way she builds stories through thread.
In this interview, Daniela Tovar talks about the early paths that shaped her work, from theatre and music to design and years of training in drawing and painting. She shares how watercolour became the medium that suited her way of working and how travelling to learn from different teachers pushed her to grow in unexpected ways. Her insights reveal how painting and illustration each give her a way to tell stories and connect with others.