MARINA TUROVA

Architect · watercolor

In my work, I explore the beauty of engineering form, retro vehicles and historical objects — things in which structural precision gradually acquires character and depth over time.

For more than 17 years, I worked on the design of residential and public buildings, car dealerships and shopping centers.

Architecture taught me to see form before it appears on paper: structure, rhythm, proportions and the internal logic of an object.

After graduating from the Academy of Architecture and Civil Engineering, where academic drawing, painting, color theory and sculpture were an essential part of the education, the desire to draw always remained with me.

I returned to watercolor after many years.

During an architectural drawing course at the Railway Museum, I was sketching the Rata-auto Cadillac together with children, explaining form, perspective and construction.

But even then, I already saw it in watercolor in my mind.

Watercolor always seemed to me the most difficult medium — alive, unpredictable and almost impossible to fully control.

That is exactly what fascinated me.

Today, through watercolor, I explore industrial aesthetics, retro automobiles and railway machinery — objects in which engineering precision gradually transforms into atmosphere, memory and character.

Photo by Svetlana Ivanova