Colour as an Emotional Frequency
Colour has never felt like a surface detail to me. It behaves more like a frequency—something that vibrates inside the body before the mind even names it. When I create wall art shaped by symbolic botanicals, I treat each hue as a living presence. Every shade carries its own temperature, its own emotional grammar, its own quiet mythology. The full colour wheel becomes a kind of intuitive compass, guiding how a composition breathes and how a viewer experiences their own inner landscape. Colour is not decoration; it is sensation, memory and omen woven together.
Red: The Pulse of Life and Emotional Fire
Red is the colour we feel first. It is warmth, will, instinct and raw vitality. In my artwork, red often glows inside petals or radiates from seed-like centres, echoing the way folklore linked red to protection, passion and the spark of awakening. Psychological studies call it stimulating; aura traditions call it fire; Slavic tales call it a boundary against harm. For me, red is the moment the inner world decides to move. It transforms a composition into an ember-lit emotional field, full of intention.
Orange: The Threshold of Energy and Creation
Orange is a colour of transition—half flame, half fruit. It holds the charge of red but softens it with warmth that feels communal and creative. In botanical form, orange becomes a curl of growth, a pulse of possibility, a soft spell of motivation. Aura readers speak of orange as expansion; folklore often ties it to harvest and ripening. When I paint orange, I feel it as movement turning into shape, desire turning into form.
Yellow: Clarity, Insight and the Quiet Joy of Light
Yellow behaves like illumination that has learned to be gentle. It brightens thoughts without blinding them. In my maximalist textures, yellow appears as dreamlike radiance—soft edges of awareness rising through symbolic petals. It’s the colour of recognition, optimism and the emotional shift that happens when confusion dissolves. In many traditions, yellow is sacred to wisdom deities and sun spirits, and its aura tone signals awakening. I use it to show the moment the artwork “understands itself.”
Green: Healing, Rootedness and Natural Intelligence
Green is where the emotional body exhales. It is the colour of integration, patience and slow renewal. My botanicals often become guardians when painted in green—grounded beings whose shapes echo forest memory and Slavic earth-magic. Green stabilises a composition; it cools overthinking; it draws the viewer back into bodily presence. In aura interpretation, green is the healer. In folklore, it is the grove, the moss, the threshold to safety. In my art, green becomes the architecture of emotional grounding.
Blue: Depth, Silence and Inner Knowing
Blue belongs to intuition. It carries the softness of a lake at dusk and the clarity of a breath drawn in solitude. Blue in my artwork pools in shadows or hovers like a quiet halo, encouraging stillness. Psychology reads it as calming; tarot assigns it to wisdom; Baltic folklore ties it to the boundary between worlds. Blue is the colour of inward listening—an atmosphere where the mind’s noise softens enough for deeper insight to rise.
Purple: Liminality and the Spirit-Self
Purple feels like a threshold. It’s the moment when intuition begins to shimmer, when darkness becomes meaningful rather than empty. When I paint purple petals or mirrored botanical forms, they behave like symbols carried through dream logic. Folklore often links purple to mystics and prophet-figures; aura traditions call it the colour of vision. In my compositions, purple gently dissolves the boundary between the physical and the emotional, turning the artwork into a small ritual space.
Pink: Tenderness, Emotional Openness and Quiet Magic
Pink enters the spectrum with softness, but it is never weak. It is the colour of vulnerable strength—the willingness to feel rather than armour oneself. My pink botanicals glow with a diffused warmth, holding the viewer in a field of emotional gentleness. Pink appears in folklore as the colour of reconciliation, affection, and healing through connection. It invites honesty and calm, turning symbolic shapes into emotional companions.
Black: The Fertile Unknown
Black is often misunderstood as absence, but in symbolic art it is a beginning. It is the soil in which meaning forms, the velvet-dark that makes every other colour glow. My compositions rely on black as a soft grounding ritual—an atmosphere where intuition sharpens and symbolic botanicals emerge with clarity. Black carries the mystical weight of underworld myths and the psychological depth of shadow work. It is not fear but potential.
White: Renewal, Breath and Emotional Reset
White is the colour of space—the pause, the clearing, the open hand. It carries the emotional freshness of starting again. In my artwork, white behaves like a soft glowing mist around petals and seed-forms, offering calm after intensity. It is the symbolic exhale that allows the composition to expand. In folklore, white often marks sacred beginnings; in aura interpretation, it is pure clarity. It gives the artwork air.
Why the Full Colour Wheel Continues to Shape My Artistic World
The full colour wheel is not a spectrum—it is a living system of emotional atmospheres, ancestral memories and symbolic cues. Psychology explains part of it, folklore adds its myths and aura traditions supply intuitive logic. But in my artwork, colour becomes its own consciousness. It behaves like weather across my botanical guardians and mirrored blooms. It shapes mood, reveals emotion and carries the viewer deeper into the symbolic landscape.
Colour responds to us because we respond to life through colour. And when the full wheel appears inside a single aesthetic world, it becomes a map—not of the outer world, but of the inner one.
