Grenseback Estate 1935 - 1942

Helen Miller painted Grenseback Estate with watercolors, and you can see how the colors gently bleed and blend. Imagine her standing there, trying to capture the light as it filters through those leafy trees. I wonder if she mixed her greens right on the paper, letting the colors mingle, or if she had them all prepped and ready to go? There’s something so immediate and responsive about watercolors – you have to be quick and intuitive. And I can feel that. It reminds me of Fairfield Porter, who painted a lot of domestic scenes with a similar kind of loose, easy brushwork. I think painters are always having this big conversation across time, inspiring each other, even if they don't know it. There's something so intimate about seeing the world through another painter's eyes. It's like, 'Oh, you see it that way too?'