COLOURBOARD / November '18
Sometimes it feels like we think in colour. An impression of a colour, a vision or sense of colour, comes first. It is an instinctive primary experience. When we begin to speak about a new fresco we often find ourselves mentioning colours first, then ideas and feelings enter the mix. Colour jumps up in the foreground before the full frame of our vision is allowed to decode and make sense. Then the shapes form, the mood follows, the connections, the memories, the links and feelings collide, and give us a direction in which to take Colour onwards. “This way, please!“ Colour says, and off we go.
“I think this world is magical. Colour, form, space, relationships ‒ these elevate life. They energise. They elevate my whole consciousness…I think art heightens the potential of the actual”
Given our thoughts on the primacy of colour, we have decided to dedicate a monthly journal post to a Colourboard. A bit like a moodboard and a colour palette, but more about colour than mood, and richer than just a palette. Here is November.
COLOURBOARD / November 2018
WORDS
Feeling cosseted and warmed by shades of cocoa, rust and russet flecked with gold. The November trees are performing their magnificent de-robing and leaving bare their monumental architecture. The air is cool and crisp. The sky is all-consuming, one day piercing and bright and another pale and misted. Earth is damp and worn down, grasses are rustling dry. Leaves and jumpers are piling up. We are stomping out or hunkered down, excitedly either way, poised for wintering.
IMAGES
Images (R>L): Unknown, Ceiling in the Salon d’Hercule in the Palace of Versailles (1724-1736), Piero Fornasetti Nuvole al Tramonto in Dawn (Cole & Sons), Aster Muro (AM) fresco detail (Big Blue, 2016), Roksanda Illincic AW18, AM fresco detail from One Spectacle Grander (2017), AM studio floor, Johnson Wax HQ (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1939), old trowel AM studio.