Exhibition Description:
This constantly growing collection of pieces titled The Sound of Colour was born out of my effort to resort back to the core values of painting and expression, why I started in the first place. These paintings are renditions of visualizations caused by synesthesia, a neurological condition which causes overlapping sensory experiences. For me personally, this occurs between sound and colour.
The process, often meditative, looks like sitting in a quiet undisturbed space, choosing a song, and focusing on the visuals that occur involuntarily in my mind. When I get an idea of what colours I will use, I listen to the song more until I have a shape and composition concept which I feel also fits, and then display these images onto canvas.
Spending time focusing on this painting method and style has brought me a new appreciation of the act of painting, as most of my work in the past while has been carefully planned and composed for school and commissions.
What I hope to put across with these pieces is to have people think more deeply about art and music, think about it as more than just a song or just a drawing, think about what it sparks inside of you, what it makes you feel.
