Artists and strong painters Giulia Ley and Theo Mackenzie began the workshop with a presentation video accompanied by storm sounds. The slideshows featured a range of images, including conversations on iMessage, Reddit posts, and images that supported their journey in recognising colour palettes.
Magazine pages were displayed on the wall and spread on the ground, from which we were instructed to select a page and then create its colour palette using acrylic paints. After creating our palettes, we chose a word from a pile that best suited our colours, and filled in the outlines using those colours we had mixed. We then applied the same process to printed children’s colouring activity pages, exploring the relationships between the colours and observing how they appeared in different formats. In the end, we used images of crests to trace onto paper, coloured paper and magazine pages to collage and create our own emblems.
Working with colours and recognising them in different contexts allowed participants to think in the way Giulia and Theo do. Although drawing wasn’t envolved, I felt it was highly suitable and an excellent way to start thinking about our surroundings with the intention of understanding how colours function next to one another.
“We rarely consider colour, yet it underscores every aspect of our lived experience: we live in a psychedelic state without knowing it.
Colour is profound in its superficiality, colour fades in time, colour is light, colour recedes, colour makes us feel nauseous or hungry.
In this sense, painting is a skill indistinguishable from what is involved in interior design or styling or even having a favourite mug.”
Join Theo @ryshelf_artistwinter9 and Giulia @claire_voyant99 in their workshop exploring colour; what it does to us as viewers and as drawers/painters.
SEEING RED
With Giulia Ley and Theo Mackenzie
Monday, 4 November
6.30-8.30pm, £10
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