Minimalistic Blue Mountain In Watercolour

Across cultures and centuries, mountains have stood as sacred thresholds between the earthly and the divine. This painting reflects that enduring belief: that mountains are not merely landforms, but spiritual places, forever worthy of awe, of myth, of worship. This contemporary landscape features a foggy ridge in one single colour application using one of my favourite colours, Paynes Grey, to evoke a sense of stillness and mysticism.

- Orientation: Horizontal
- Title: Mystic Mountain #4
- Year: 2022
- Signed at the front
- Titled, dated and signed at the back too
- A note on materials: This piece is painted on Arches textured paper, a high-quality surface known for its ability to hold delicate washes and subtle tonal transitions. For a closer look at the surface and paint application, please refer to the third image in the listing.
Please note that while the paper may appear more yellow in that photograph, it is in fact a soft, off-white tone — warm, but neutral — complementing the cool hues of the composition.

Shipping:
- Comes flat in a rigid envelope

Original handmade artwork ©Copyright Natalia Pelaez Natapart 2017-2025.
*This item comes with a free postcard or handmade gift.

Framing: I highly recommend this artwork to be float framed under glass.

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Its much harder for me to talk about my art than it is to paint ;)
Words come later, images and the joy I experience when I paint comes first.

I sometimes think about my work as a maze. I go into long winded paths of discovery, I dive deep into a subject but I follow tangents too. They sometimes lead to dead ends yet other times bring about the most wonderful discoveries.

Ive learned not to give up too soon. Is almost a scientific approach: establishing outcomes through testing and experimentation; making observations, predictions and most importantly analysing the results.

I work in collections. I explore a subject until I feel like its ran its course. I paint in tied palette that I almost always mix myself, colour mixing and creating my own colours is a big part of my prep work. My palette oscillates between earthy tones, dark moody ones and blue, the colour that I seem to be gravitating towards in recent months. As Van Gogh said "There is no blue without yellow and orange", therefore I also incorporate those two, its a must!