When painting this abstract landscape painting, I had fun letting watercolor, ink and water flow and playing with the expressive color contrast between the bold red of the barn and the bright greens of the landscape.
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham CBE (1912 – 2004) was one of the foremost Scottish abstract artists.
Through the course of her life her work generally lay on the divide between abstract and representational, typically drawing on inspirations from landscape. From as early as the age of eight she had been creating abstract shapes with coloured chalks.
This painting is a great example of her work. I particularly love the apparent simplicity of brush strokes and colours.