Davia DeNisco

Artist Statement

My work explores sensations, memories, movement, and feeling all at once. I am drawn to moments that feel transitional: a shifting horizon line, wind moving through space, light changing just before it disappears. Working primarily with watercolor, ink, and acrylic, I build surfaces through layered marks and evolving color, allowing each piece to develop through accumulation, revision, and restraint.
I am especially interested in small-scale formats because they invite close attention. Within these intimate frames, I try to distill expansive feeling rather than describe a place literally. The work begins with references to landscape, weather, and atmosphere, but moves toward something more internal: the emotional residue of being somewhere, or of remembering it later. I want the paintings to feel open enough for viewers to enter slowly and experience their own associations within them.