Colour is a powerful communication tool and can be used to signal action, influence mood …. Even physiological reactions.

 In truth, colour is perception related to light landing on a surface. How much of the light is absorbed or reflected is what we call colour and how it bounces can have quite an effect on our emotions.

Artists have used this knowledge for hundreds of years. They know there is passion, power and pride in reds and oranges and that pastel blues and greens have a calming, restful effect. They know that some colours can cancel each other out and create warm or cool greys. Bright yellow creates a happy atmosphere while you can have the brooding  browns, greys  and black or the purity of white which can create a feeling that everything is clean and pristine.

This exhibition is the result of the Splinter Contemporary Artists being given the task of using colour however they wanted to.