Olga Retunska
Watercolour.
It once stained everything in my bag — semi-liquid, viscous. It sealed together the key to my front door and the key to the mailbox with a cadmium red kiss. Over the years, it has not changed much. It still separates through granulation — always in the most important place, like the smooth cheek of a model. It still loses a few tones as it dries. It still blooms into flowers when water touches the drying surface.
Using watercolour’s transparency, movement, and unpredictability, I create scenes inspired by rivers, gardens, forests, and quiet human presence within nature — a world inhabited by mermaids and forest spirits drawn from folklore and imagination. These works are not about escape (well, maybe a little), but about closeness — to water, to silence, and to a world where tenderness, magic, and wonder still exist.
