EBONY ROSE

​A Selection of watercolour & ink drawings, 2014


​Watercolour is a significant component of my studio practice and dates my earliest work.   I am constantly transfixed by its variable qualities and how watercolour can suspend an action in time.  The vast majority of my watercolours are a record of phenomenological processes intersecting with forms I impose. I draw lines, pour and pool water, hang and tilt the paper so water and colour gather on an edge and sometimes run-off.  Albeit a fixed image, these residues of past occurrences-water lapping against a container, carries movement and stillness at once.
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Anne Truitt writes:
​I keep trying to catch the laws I feel illustrated in phenomena: in the meetings and just-not-meetings; in forces abutting, thrusting one against another, illuminating one another. A force is only visible in its effect, and it is the split second in which this effect becomes just barely visible that haunts me. 







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Untitled, 2014, Watercolour on paper, 23" x 30"

Untitled, 2014, Watercolour and ink on paper, 19.5” x 19” 

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