COLIN RHODES
Woman in a White Dress
Watercolour, gouache and pencil on rice paper
34 x 48cm
An imagined portrait of a woman whose glance will forever be directed toward someone standing to the right of the viewer. Her left arm is so important. It is the pillar which holds everything else in place. Behind her an indistinct expanse of deadly still sea. Rice paper resists this painting technique. It wants only to soak up the colour of to threaten to fall apart if pushed. Yet, delicacy of painterly touch is still possible.