Coral Garden

Coral Garden is a large watercolour and ink vista of an underwater world of coral, rock, seaweed and grass with fish flitting past and seahorses clinging onto the grasses.

The colours of the elements are depicted through washes of subtle and bold colour with an overlay of ink line work to provide areas of tighter detail.

Each element is stylized and reimagined as part of the composition pulling you into the calm nature of the underwater world.

Watercolour washes fill the spaces created by the ink line work and makes the piece look like stained glass. The ink line work picks out each element of the image with an overlay of organic expressive lines to hold it all together.

Painted with artists quality materials on 550gsm watercolour paper.

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Nicola is a Perth based multi-award winning artist and owner of The Artists Nook a collaborative artists team providing public and community art projects throughout WA. She has a BA Honours in Fine Art Printmaking from Gray’s School of Art in Scotland.

Her art practice encompasses printmaking and painting with a focus on linocut and watercolour. Nature is a constant throughout her work with native flowers and birds as subjects and motifs.

Art Nouveau and stained glass work have been an enduring inspiration and are echoed throughout her pieces. Juxtaposing flat ink against textural and tonal watercolour washes create a tactility in her still life and botanical pieces.