Choosing to use Sanzo Wada's Dictionary of Colour Combinations in the Fructus series is at once both a liberating and extremely deliberate act.

Rosalia draws on her art conservator colour-matching skills to precisely reproduce the shades shown in each three-colour combination. Picking up predetermined hues frees up artistic energy to focus on the creative act of playing with shape, movement and fundamental nature.

Out of this game, plump, essential fruits are born, harnessing the paper’s white background as the very outline that carves them from the swathe of vibrant Japanese watercolours.