VCUarts Painting + Printmaking Associate Professor Javier Tapia is showing a series of watercolor paintings at Piedmont Arts in Martinsville, Va.
“I know that many of you know how difficult watercolor is,” he said, but he feels that he has “reached the point where I am in my work using opacity and transparency in interchangeable ways and I really like the idea that watercolor can reach places where it hasn’t yet been around. That’s what I look forward to keep discovering.”
He talked about the process of creation.
“There is something about, when you start a painting … you start thinking about very little in a way, and that subject for me drives me to a place where I even contradict myself, and I really go back and forth, back and forth, so in that kind of opposition, something electrical really happens.”
Read the full article in the Martinsville Bulletin.
Image: Javier Tapia talks about his watercolors during the opening reception for his exhibit, “Acuarelas en Gran Formato,” at Piedmont Arts. The Peruvian-born artist is an associate professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. Credit via Martinsville Bulletin.
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