Colors of Life

Warm walls in the afternoon sun: ochre, rust, copper and the sepia of an old print. Terracotta is the colour of places that have been lived in for a long time — sun-faded plaster, clay pots, polished copper.

Soft greens of the morning: leaves, still water and a family breakfast in the shade. Sage is a quiet colour — it never shouts, it surrounds. These works feel cool, slow and full of air.

Blue hour and quiet rooms — the moment when the sky is not quite gone and the lamps are not yet lit. Dusk turns everything a little softer, a little further away, and invites a kind of thoughtful silence.

Blossom, ballet shoes and roses on a table — the softest pinks painters ever found in everyday life. Rosé is the colour of tenderness: a cradle, a spring orchard, a dancer waiting in the wings.