The complex world of color captivates me. I have long studied color theory and application of it, fasinated by the relationships colors have with each other. For instance, the fact that colors can maximize intensity to one another and the same colors have the power to neutralize one another.

As I worked practically with color, I found there were some nuances that I hated, especially one in particular. How strange, I thought, to have such an emotional response to a color. I know that color is relative. Any color can be made beautiful by what surrounds it. Likewise, any color can be made disharmonic by what surrounds it.

So, I set up a goal to work with my Hate Color until I could make peace with it, make it beautiful in it’s surroundings and truely challenge my use of color. For over ten years I ended up painting over it. Then I started leaving small slivers of it peeking through from a layer of paint below. Sometimes, today, I choose to work with it and feel that it is now an accepted relative to the rest of my palett.