Why Colour Feels Like Energy
Colour has never felt like a fixed visual detail to me. It behaves more like an emotional current that shifts and vibrates with its own tempo, adapting itself to whatever inner state it carries. When I paint, I experience colour as atmosphere and temperature, as a kind of breath that moves through the composition. This is what I call colour energy: the emotional frequency that sits behind a hue and determines how the artwork resonates. Each shade gathers its own momentum, and that momentum becomes the foundation of my symbolic botanical language.
Auras and the Emotional Atmosphere of Colour
When I refer to auras in my work, I’m describing an emotional glow that surrounds a form and expands its presence. An aura is not a literal halo; it is an impression of energy that radiates from the colour itself. A blue aura creates a soft field of depth and introspection, while a red aura carries heat and urgency. A green aura spreads quiet renewal, and a purple one invites mystery and intuitive openness. These atmospheric fields shape how the viewer steps into the image, and they also shape how the image quietly settles into the viewer.
Colour Frequency as Emotional Language
Every colour moves with its own emotional rhythm. Some frequencies feel slow, grounding and close to the earth, while others appear sharp, bright and almost electric. Deep greens often settle in the body with the weight of a steady heartbeat, while purples drift through the mind like dream currents. Yellow flickers with a sense of inner recognition, and red burns beneath the surface with a quiet but undeniable intensity. These movements guide the symbolic forms I paint, influencing how they glow, how they lean and how they occupy their space.
Glowing Seeds and Their Inner Charge
Glowing seeds appear throughout my work because they are the most concentrated expression of colour energy. A yellow seed feels like a point of awareness waiting to expand, while a red seed behaves like a small pulse of heat. A green seed carries the sensation of renewal before it becomes visible, and a violet seed holds the softness of unspoken intuition. These seeds are emotional beginnings. They represent the initial shift within the inner landscape, the spark from which meaning starts to grow.
Roots as Carriers of Emotional Frequencies
The roots in my art function like conduits of internal movement. When infused with colour, they transport emotional energy the way nerves carry sensation through the body. A root washed in blue feels contemplative and slow; a root lit by purple feels tuned to intuitive perception. A root glowing in green carries the weight of recovery and rebirth. These root-systems trace the pathways of feeling, weaving through the hidden architecture of the image and revealing where emotion settles and where it rises.
Mirrored Petals as Reflective Symbols
Mirrored petals allow me to explore how colour reflects and transforms the inner self. When petals appear doubled or subtly distorted, they echo the ways emotion can shift in response to experience. A mirrored red petal intensifies feeling, creating an effect that feels almost fevered. A mirrored purple petal deepens awareness as though the petal itself were carrying a fragment of dream logic. A mirrored blue petal softens into calm, expanding the sense of inner quiet. The symmetry acts as a chamber of resonance, letting colour fold back onto itself.
How Colour Energy Creates Symbolic Imagery
Symbolic imagery in my work emerges from the relationship between colour and form. A seed glowing in green becomes a metaphor for healing long before its botanical shape is finished. A bloom washed in violet becomes an emblem of intuitive depth. A root lit in red turns into a narrative of desire and motion. Colour sets the emotional tone of the artwork before anything else appears; it determines the symbolic field and shapes the story that will unfold. It is the quiet architect of the atmosphere.
The Atmospheric Weight of Colour
Each colour carries a different emotional density. Some create a sense of grounding, others feel expansive and light, and some impose a magnetic pull that draws the viewer closer. When I build a composition, the weight of the colour is as important as the hue itself. Deep tones create gravity, soft tones create space, and bright tones create vibrational movement. Through layers of grain, haze and glow, I let each colour reach its full atmospheric presence so that the image feels alive from the inside out.
Why Colour Energy Is Central to My Work
Colour is the first emotional truth in any piece I create. Before the petals, before the roots, before the symbolic structures take shape, I always begin with the question of what energy the colour wants to express. That energy becomes the aura, the frequency and the emotional direction of the image. For me, to understand colour in art is to understand the quiet mechanics of emotion—how it moves, how it shifts, how it becomes visible through hue, light and symbolic form. Colour energy is the language beneath all other languages in my work.
