Thoughts on the impact of colours

Then why do I sit in my living room, trying to decide which shade of grey to paint my walls? Choosing wall colour is no easy task. This forms the back¬ground for the people and objects in your life … not the obvious primary colours but the white spaces, the black shadows, the grey halftones, the creamy beiges … personalities with sto¬ries. The love of colour is an emotional matter, just as the love of music. Try to describe it in words and most of us would be lost. The strongest, most inti¬mate feelings are derived from colour. I have never felt greater satisfaction than from the colours of Kyoto or the autumnal foliage set against the wind¬ing Mississippi river. No one said, "That's perfection", but my soul knew.

We can take lessons from nature. Nature gives us a palette of colours perfectly presented with every conceivable nuance and variation. White and grey clouds on a brilliant blue sky. Perfection. Greygreen moss on a black and brown stone wall. Heaven.