Clare Chapman
I have made watercolours since college but stopped for a long time and only began again when I started therapy seven years ago. Daily gifts for my therapist which he did not particularly want.
I like it as a medium that seems able to direct itself. The first splash on the paper initiating the formation of the image, and because the light always has to come from the paper, the quicker and less worked on often the better. Watercolour can be unforgiving in the inability it creates to remove traces of previous marks that have dried, but this layering can, when light enough, create these bulges within forms that have an inherent softness and transparency in their wateriness.
I’m not sure what these fluid, sac-like objects are, but they seem to become defined and directed through their balance, weight and symbiotic relationship to one another.
Clare Chapman
Untitled, 2021
Watercolour on paper
18x26 cm
