In my watercolors, there are images that are understood at first glance, and others that leave the feeling that there is something more, difficult to name. We see trees, mountains, faces, or roots, but we also sense a dimension that is not exhausted in what is visible. That is where the symbol begins: in what the image suggests beyond what it shows.
What the Image Suggests
In my imagined world in watercolor, the elements do not function merely as scenery but as part of a visual language of their own. Trees, mountains, water, light, and human figures appear intertwined, creating scenes in which the boundary between body and landscape blurs. Each image points to something beyond the visible and lets us glimpse an inner dimension recognized through the gaze.
When someone pauses before one of my watercolors, they recognize familiar forms – human figures, roots, mountains – but they also feel something for which they do not always find words. Calm, vertigo, expansion, or a sense of being “somewhere else”. The painting acts as a bridge: while the mind identifies what it sees, a silent space opens, where associations, memories, emotions, and intuitions appear. The symbol is born from the inner movement the image provokes without imposing a single meaning.
Shared Symbols
Many of the forms that inhabit my painting – trees, mountains, water, light, emerging figures – belong to a common ground that has accompanied us since always. That is why they reappear in mythologies, dreams, stories, and works of art over time. They refer to essential experiences: being born, growing, getting lost, transforming, and awakening. At this level, the symbol works as a shared visual language: certain images feel close even when we do not know their history or cultural explanation.
One Image, Many Gazes
Beyond what is shared, each painting meets the life of the person who contemplates it. The same image can awaken serenity in one person and unease in another. One person may focus on the faces that appear among the branches, another on the landscape, and another is caught by the color. The symbol arises from the encounter between the watercolor and the gaze: the image becomes a mirror of inner processes that are becoming more present in awareness.
The Symbol in My Painting
In my visionary watercolor art, the symbol holds together what is shared and what is intimate. The forms that are repeated – the face, nature, organic structures, the paths of color – create a recognizable fabric within my painting. That fabric shapes a visual language of its own: a way of naming, without words, what is perceived when figure and landscape begin to be a single presence.
A Space for Contemplation
This blog gathers fragments of that world imagined in watercolor. Each entry approaches the images from within that same territory, not in order to decipher them, but to accompany what they awaken. Listening to a symbol means giving it time: staying with the image without hurry and allowing what it stirs inside to have space to appear.
In that place, the painting ceases to be only something external and becomes a living experience, shared between the inner world of the viewer and a wider reality that includes us.