Grey makes colour exciting

Grey makes colour exciting

Grey is a colour to contrast “The color of truth is grey” Andre Gide, French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1869-1951 Grey is not a colour that I use often in my pallet, it usually has some other tones, whether that be green or blue, but pure...
White is the colour of life

White is the colour of life

Contemporary Art – White “If colours were people, it, white, would be admired, but it probably wouldn’t be popular. It is just a little too exclusive, autocratic and neurotic,” Kassia St. Clair, author of The Secret Lives of Colours 2016.  The...
Early influences of contemporary artists

Early influences of contemporary artists

What is colour? What is colour, why is colour and how is colour? As I explore my paints, first with oils and how with acrylics I seek to understand how opposite hues have a way of tricking the eye. Absract art and all that it represents for me there was never a truer...
Colour in contemporary art

Colour in contemporary art

  Colour essentials Colour is integral to life. We add colour to our, homes, rooms and to our workspaces to bring vibrancy and energy to a space. Colour can evoke many emotions, feelings, and senses, it isthe essence of humanness to appreciate the subtlety of colour....