Mia-Jane Glamuzina
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This project explores narrative through observational studies and the process of watercolour painting. These paintings were developed from a body of work that utilised traditional techniques of watercolour. Coming from a background in oil painting, I was interested in the various reversed principles of the medium: such as the application of light-to-dark, the translucency of the paint, the limitations of layering and the paper's ability to manage water.
With a focus on still-life subjects drawn from my context, I sought to investigate and challenge the material constraints and expectations of the medium, experimenting with the surface to explore new approaches to substrate, colour and developing compositions that simultaneously explored narrative outcomes.
These paintings were created over one year in Grafton, painting in my flat, an evolving space under construction that served as an ever-shifting backdrop of source imagery. The transformation of my home, with its changing structure, provided surfaces for stretching paper and content for my paintings.
The subjects and objects evolved in tandem with the context in which the paintings were made, and the medium and process ultimately guided the narrative.
