For beginners, wanderers, and slow art lovers

Watercolour is one of the most soulful ways to paint. It moves like smoke, seeps like rain, and settles into the fibres of the page like a story being told. It teaches us to let go, to flow with what is, and to see beauty in the in-between.

Unlike other paints, watercolour invites you to work with water — not against it. You’re not covering a surface, you’re revealing something. With each layer, each soft stroke, you are letting the light of the paper shine through. It’s gentle. It’s unpredictable. It’s (semi)forgiving. Just go with the flow and embrace your own style! It doesn’t need to be perfect, it just needs to be you.

At Palawa Pigments, we make our paints from the land itself — ochres, stones, and minerals foraged with respect and transformed into paint by hand. Each colour carries its own memory, and when you paint with it, you become part of that story.

Whether you’re sitting under a gum tree, gathered at a kitchen table, or curled up in your studio, painting can be a way of reconnecting — to yourself, to Country, and to the quiet joy of creating something slowly and with care.

“Watercolour doesn’t ask for control. It asks for presence.”