Castro Jeriz c. 2003

Rein Dool made this watercolour called Castro Jeriz, and it's all about how process can capture a landscape. The washy application suggests a fleeting moment, a quickly rendered impression of place. The materiality is so important here. Look how the pigment pools and settles, creating a subtle texture. There’s a real physicality to the medium, an earthiness that mirrors the subject. The browns and blues aren’t just colours, they’re stand-ins for soil and sky. Notice the horizon line, that delicate band of olive green. It’s like a whispered secret, a fragile connection between the earthly and the ethereal. That tiny band of colour just makes the whole piece sing for me! It makes me think of Agnes Martin, her quiet grids and subtle color shifts. But where Martin seeks transcendence, Dool seems content to revel in the messy beauty of the world. For me, it's a reminder that art is always a conversation, a back-and-forth between artists across time.