EBONY ROSE
  • WORK
    • Ear to ocean
    • CAMBER
    • Drift
    • Glint
    • Night Shapes
    • Tafoni Nutkana 2021
    • Cetus
    • Coral Bones Black Water 2020
    • Wash Up 2020
    • Mountain Water 2020
    • Pitch Dark 2019
    • Dark Light 2018
    • Ordinary Light 2017
    • Four Corners 2015
    • Four Corners, AHVA 2016
    • Pinna (bridge) 2017
    • Pinna 2015
    • Zephyr 2014 Light Ricochets 2014
    • Water study 2014
    • Haiku 2013
    • Other >
      • Drawings for light
      • Ins and Outs
      • Memory of trees 2019
      • Seaweed study 2017
      • Gossamer 2014
      • Weavings 2014
      • Lift 2013
      • Halo Cobalt teal 2013
  • About
  • WORK
    • Ear to ocean
    • CAMBER
    • Drift
    • Glint
    • Night Shapes
    • Tafoni Nutkana 2021
    • Cetus
    • Coral Bones Black Water 2020
    • Wash Up 2020
    • Mountain Water 2020
    • Pitch Dark 2019
    • Dark Light 2018
    • Ordinary Light 2017
    • Four Corners 2015
    • Four Corners, AHVA 2016
    • Pinna (bridge) 2017
    • Pinna 2015
    • Zephyr 2014 Light Ricochets 2014
    • Water study 2014
    • Haiku 2013
    • Other >
      • Drawings for light
      • Ins and Outs
      • Memory of trees 2019
      • Seaweed study 2017
      • Gossamer 2014
      • Weavings 2014
      • Lift 2013
      • Halo Cobalt teal 2013
  • About
Picture

​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. 







Picture

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

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Untitled, 2014, Watercolour on paper, 23" x 30"
© Ebony Rose​