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Before a painting becomes a story, it is often first experienced as colour.
For these artists, colour is not used to describe the world. It becomes the world itself.
Megan Rooney treats colour as memory. Her paintings emerge from accumulated sensations, landscapes and emotions, allowing remembered places to resurface without ever becoming literal images. As she puts it, she is interested in “how colour attaches to memory.”
For Pam Evelyn, colour behaves like an emotional gesture. Built through slow layering, scraping and revision, her paintings feel less like compositions than traces of attention, movement and time.
Corinne Vogel approaches painting as an intuitive landscape. Her works suggest places that cannot be mapped, where atmosphere matters more than representation and colour becomes a way of navigating emotion rather than geography.
In Katharina Grosse’s practice, colour escapes the canvas entirely. It spreads across walls, floors and architecture, dissolving the boundary between painting and space. Colour is no longer something we look at. It becomes an environment we physically inhabit.
Perhaps this is why abstraction remains so compelling. Before we recognise an image, we recognise a feeling.
Colour arrives first.
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