Pigment chemistry
Why heavy minerals settle into the paper's valleys
Sedimenting pigments like ultramarine and raw umber drop into the grain and build a texture no synthetic dye will imitate.
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Watercolour & Photography — Archive 2019—2026
Light, water,
and the way
pigment settles.
A viewing room for forty-odd paintings on cotton rag — mountain dawns, botanical geometries, coastal twilights. Nothing here is for sale. It is here to be looked at closely.
40+
Works shown
300gsm
Cotton rag
7
Years of practice
The Collection
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Adjacent Practice
Photographs
Reference frames from the same walks — printed in black and white so the paintings keep the colour.
Studio Notes
On pigment and paper
Technique
Wet-on-wet without turning it to mud
The satin-sheen moment on 300gsm cold-press is the only window where two washes will blend and still stay transparent.
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A six-colour split primary that fits in a pocket
What actually goes up the hill: one sable mop, a watercolour block, and a palette small enough to forget about.
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Madhuri Janardana paints as a hobby, in the mornings, mostly outdoors. If you want to talk about granulation, paper grain, or where the light was that day — write.
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