About the work

Thatched House with Yellow Background (Early Study — Tropical Landscape Series)

Medium: Watercolor on paper — 21 × 27.9 cm — 2021

Made in 2021, when Linda Barnini was working as an architect in Colombia, this watercolor is an essential precursor in her artistic path. Her interest in the geometric purity of tropical vernacular architecture and its organic integration with the surrounding vegetation is born here from a structural gaze, which years later would provide the creative impetus she needed to return fully to painting and open her studio in 2026.

Against a luminous, atmospheric background in ochre and golden tones, the work balances the pyramidal solidity of the thatched roof—rendered with fine linear strokes that suggest texture and volume—with the organic lightness of the deep green treetops. This early study is in direct dialogue with its later evolution in Thatched House with Banana Trees (2026), revealing the continuity between her architectural training and her painterly sensibility.