26th December 2015 at Korana river 2015

Alfred Freddy Krupa made this watercolour, '26th December 2015 at Korana river', on that very day, probably en plein air. I imagine him standing there, brush in hand, trying to capture the way the light filters through the trees. It's all blues and whites, a wintery scene. The paint looks thin, fluid, like he’s letting the water do its thing. Those delicate lines of the branches, how they reach out, so fragile. I bet Krupa was thinking about ephemerality, the fleeting nature of things. The way the light is caught on the snow makes me think of Turner, the way he conjured atmosphere. Each brushstroke seems to communicate a feeling of quiet contemplation. You know, it's like artists are always in dialogue, answering each other across time. And painting, well, it's just this incredible way of expressing the unsayable, embracing all the ambiguity.