Downstairs

7 July – 19 July

'WHAT'S IN A WATERCOLOUR?'

"I am a Napier based watercolour artist and love working with this medium.  In earlier days  I was an avid potter however, after many years of hankering to paint I finally put brush to paper and have now been painting for some 10 years. 

I especially love the movement and magic that watercolour allows.  It's exciting to watch the merging of colours and how the paint can often have a mind of its own.  Working with the unexpected sometimes gives rise to greater creativity and the outcomes of a painting can be either controlled or just pure free-flowing. 

It's wonderful to allow my imagination to roam and when working on a piece, I enjoy looking for ways I might be able to incorporate a variety of techniques which can add other dimensions to the piece.  Creating paintings using other tools as opposed to brushes is a style I particularly like owing to the freedom and diverse outcomes this can bring to a painting. 

I hope you enjoy my watercolour paintings that I have brought to this Exhibition." - Joan Hay