MFA exhibition: Colour Research

Colour is a universal phenomenon that each person has their own perception of. It can be described as electromagnetic waves that bounce between reflective surfaces, hit our corneas and are read in the brain as visual information. But how do you explain the colours we see when we close our eyes, how can we see colour in our dreams? Colour is both physical and psychological. A material substance with abstract properties. The contradictory concepts are what makes it so exciting.

My interest in colour led me to the source, and in 2017 I started making my own paint from scratch. I collect raw materials outdoors which I then bring to the studio and transform them into pigments. The work consists of simple but time-consuming tasks, something that was part of everyday life for artists until industry took over paint production. Returning to these methods opens up a multitude of new possibilities. It blurs the line between the studio and the public space, and it welcomes chance.

Colour Research (2021) is an installation where colour exists in different physical states: in ongoing processes, as usable pigments, as paintings and as raw materials.