L’INCONNU Amsterdam

House Artist 10 · Watercolour

L’INCONNU Elise Moreau

I put down the water first, and then I wait to see where the colour wants to go.

Weather over the Amstel, 1994. Watercolour on paper.
LX-EM-001 · Weather over the Amstel · 1994

Elise Moreau paints colour, not things. She wets the sheet, drops in pigment and lets it travel, then stops it with a dry brush before it settles. The dark rims are where the water dried last.

Her sheets for the House are weather reports: the colour of the IJ in March, of brick after rain, of a late afternoon on the Amstel.

Wet into wet. No pencil underneath.

IJ, March, 1994. Watercolour on paper.
LX-EM-002 IJ, March · 1994
Brick after rain, 1995. Watercolour on paper.
LX-EM-003 Brick after rain · 1995
Late afternoon, 1995. Watercolour on paper.
LX-EM-004 Late afternoon · 1995
Park, early, 1996. Watercolour on paper.
LX-EM-005 Park, early · 1996

House archive

  1. LX-EM-001Weather over the Amstel1994Watercolour on paper
  2. LX-EM-002IJ, March1994Watercolour on paper
  3. LX-EM-003Brick after rain1995Watercolour on paper
  4. LX-EM-004Late afternoon1995Watercolour on paper
  5. LX-EM-005Park, early1996Watercolour on paper