Escaping into colour
Music credit: La Fille Sans Larmes By Lo Mimieux via Epidemic Sound
"Color is a power which directly influences the soul."
Wassily Kandinsky
The comfort of colour
When the world feels dark, the days short and the sky is continuously grey and wintery, I crave colour.
I cocoon myself with colour. Colour can be comforting and consoling. Creating small colorful corners to retreat to, whether that be within the pages of my sketchbook, the pages of an art book, on my desk or within my paintings.
In this video I share some new colourful paintings with you, I review my year in sketchbook pages and show you a beautiful art book published in 2021 by Taschen which celebrates the art of Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes.
New paintings
I have just completed four small paintings on wood panels.
They are bright, bold and hopeful. I find hope in colour-soaked moments...and wanted to inbue these paintings with that sense. Inspired by a series of pages and fragments of ideas which have developed over time in the pages of my sketchbook.
I often find my art making feels like a giant and long lasting game of stepping stones. I need to try things out, test ideas, let ideas develop and percolate before they are ready to show up in paintings….
Beatriz Milhazes
If you are interested in the art of Beatriz Milhazes you may like to:
Watch this youtube video from several years ago where she talks about her process
Visit this page from the Whitecube Gallery which includes artworks, and a recent video about the work she has completed for the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024