WATERSHED

noun :

  1. an area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers, basins or seas
  2. an event or period marking a turning point in a situation
  • the fluidity of water-based paint on paper – watercolour, gouache, acrylics
  • streams, waterfalls, rivers, sea and coast – features connecting geographically to the Cornish watershed
  • the tipping point between pictorial representation and abstraction in art