Colour is one of those aspects of life that everyone expe­ri­ences, or at least most humans, and many other ani­mals do, and most of us expe­ri­ence it without much con­scious thought.

I have always had an unusu­ally intense rela­tion­ship with colour. From a very early age, I noticed colours, and talked about them with anyone I could find. I remember the colours of many things and envi­ron­ments that were around me. Sometimes, colours are all I remember about an expe­ri­ence. The colour of the car of my first love; the colour of the wall in my second love’s bed­room. The colour of the dingy carpet in my first apart­ment, before I removed it. The colour of an eccen­tric purple and orange house in a Massachussetts suburb. The colour of tea with milk that would be the per­fect cup of tea to my mother. The colour of my baby’s brother’s favourite stuffed toy fif­teen years ago. I even remember the dark blue tint of my own first pram, which I must have been in between the ages of two and four.

Last year, I joined a web­site called ColourLovers. This addic­tive site allows mem­bers to create palettes of any com­bi­na­tion of up to five shades of colours. There are also mil­lions of seam­less pat­terns, many of them incred­ibly beau­tiful, that mem­bers can use to colour with any palette. There are lots of amazing, tal­ented people on this site, who create these pat­tern tem­plates that others can colour. I have ended up using a few of my coloured-in pat­terns on some of my other sites.

I will be fea­turing some of my work from this site on my blog. All these will be avail­able under the Colours cat­e­gory here.

If you like colour, or have any com­ments or ques­tions, I would love to hear from you! Share your thoughts as a com­ment here.