The Role of Color in My Work: Painting Emotion Through Landscapes
When I paint, I’m not just capturing a view—I'm expressing a feeling.
Color is the most honest language I know, and it helps me say what I cannot always put into words.
As an abstract landscape artist, my focus is not on how the land looks but how it feels—and color is the bridge between what I experience inside and what I bring to canvas.
🌿 Walking Through Emotion
Many of my paintings begin after a quiet walk—through bush tracks, near rivers, or by the sea. I often find myself drawn to places where nature and human life gently meet—hidden houses behind trees, a solitary bench facing the water. These moments stir something deep inside me: vulnerability, calm, even a kind of emotional release.
I carry these feelings back with me and let them flow through color.
💕 Why I Always Return to Pink and Blue
There are two colors that always find their way into my work: pink and blue.
Pink, for me, is soft and emotional—it brings warmth and gentleness to a scene. Blue feels expansive and healing, like the sky or ocean wrapping around you. Together, they create a delicate balance, like light and air moving through the land.
Sometimes, even if a painting starts in a completely different mood, these colors appear by the end. They feel like home.
🎨 I Don’t Plan the Palette—My Heart Chooses It
I never sit down with a strict color plan. I begin with whatever mood I’m feeling at that moment.
There are times when I start a painting in deep, moody tones—reflecting sadness, confusion, or simply stillness. But by the time the painting is finished a week later, those original colors might be buried under bright, joyful hues.
Painting is like therapy for me. The colors shift as my emotions do. It’s a slow transformation that happens layer by layer, like turning pages of a story.
🖼️ Letting Color Speak for Me
I often say I’m not good with words. I talk a lot, but people sometimes misunderstand me. Painting is the one space where I feel truly understood.
Color allows me to say everything I need to say—without explaining, just feeling. And the beautiful thing about abstract art is that it gives the viewer space to feel, too. You might see something different than I do—and that’s exactly how it should be.
✨ Final Thoughts
Color in my work is not just decoration—it’s emotion, memory, and energy. Whether it’s the soft pink of a fading sunset or the calm of a deep blue sky, I use these hues to tell stories of place, of self, and of quiet moments in nature that moved me.
If one of my paintings has ever made you pause, breathe deeper, or feel something without knowing why—it was probably the color speaking to you.
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