Winter Mist over the Reservoir

In Winter Mist over the Reservoir, Aguirrezabala pushes the medium to its most delicate limits. This ethereal composition executed in watercolor on paper, is structured in horizontal bands of varying density, a hallmark of her “preponderance of planes” technique.

The foreground is a wash of pale, icy blue that mirrors the sky, suggesting a calm body of water or a frost-covered plain.The landscape is enveloped in a thick fog or mist, rendering the distant hills as soft, ghostly silhouettes in shades of taupe and grey. The artist uses a “wet-on-wet” application, allowing the pigments to bleed into the paper to dissolve hard edges, creating a silent, poetic space where the horizon line almost disappears into the atmosphere.