Waterway II Debra Ramsay marks and figures are suspended

marks and figures are suspended in dimensional space

light and time

Her work is a personal map of her journeys

and is a combination of intuition-based and planned execution

It is a  “drawing” of color with a brush

Waterway II Debra Ramsay marks and figures are suspendedUnframed but mounted and hinged on foamcore backing, ready for framing. Uchiyama works with watercolor on Arches paper. She often develops as many as eight compositions at one time, moving on to the next while the paint dries on the last. To begin each work, she waits to see a hue on the blank surface. Each additional hue builds off of that original vision, building towards a linear horizontal pattern. Each layer possesses unique physical and material