Broken Colours

About

It is the vibrations that it generates within her that are at the beginning of most of her work. There is a relationship between colours, the way they jostle for pre-eminence and harmony, their luminosity and intensity, that Rebecca finds endlessly compelling.

There is an emotional response to colour that we subconsciously react to. It speaks to us directly, like music. We know how we feel when we see certain colours, they pull us in without words, attract or repel us, like a scent or a sonata.

In this exhibition, Rebecca is exploring the synthesis of senses that happen when working with colour. Always trying to push conscious thought to one side and allowing the sensations of physically moving the paint across the surface to release her inner intentions.

“I want to share the way my senses are blurred as I paint. Mostly the colour does the work and I react to it with the instinctive choices I make. It is a very improvisational way of finding out what I want to say “

She is also intrigued by ways of “breaking up” the colours into an interesting surface. It could be the smooth flatness that allows the intensity to “sing out”, or the cracked, raised surface that creates some 3 dimensionalities. She is always trying to engage the viewer, to find interesting ways to hold their attention and invite them into the world, as she sees it; to seek out different ways of sharing a prism of broken colours. The delight of working with colour is an organic feast of energy and harmony, a life force, just as it is in the natural world.