Recently I’ve been gifted several items that are purple in colour. I discovered that the reason they are purple is because people think that’s my fave colour. Nope. It’s red. This has happened several times in the past… so I decided to investigate the why. Surprisingly obvious once it was pointed out!!

Many of my paintings end up with purple figures in them. Sometimes I deviate from that when I paint with particular people in mind that I see in other colours, or if I want to talk about something that I convey with a particular colour. However, for the most part, I do not predetermine colours rather I let them flow as the concept develops on canvas.

I gravitate to purple because I feel it neutralizes culture and race (and sometimes the gender) of the featured figures. It also symbolizes intuition and wisdom to me. Since the concepts to many of my artworks centre around personal strength and/or relationship development, I feel purple envelopes the ideas and reflects the intent.