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For my first entry I would like to do a study of colour. I am always amazed by the colours in nature and how nature can create perfect colour combinations, every gradation of colour beside each other working in perfect harmony. As an artist and designer, colour becomes a tool as a way to create a feeling or a mood, to accent beautiful architecture or to understate and hide flaws. The slightest change of colour in a painting can create a totally different feel and look and the same holds true for a designing a room.

I find that colour can often be a difficult and confusing for my some of clients during a renovation and or a new home. Not only do colours mean different things to different people (not to mention cultures) but colours become an avenue of expressing ourselves and when we are in a position where we need to choose for example paint colours for a wall in a bedroom, it can become a very personal experience.

Many of my clients over the years are from other parts of the world and have purchased either a second home in our amazing city, beautiful Vancouver or they have moved here indefinitely to begin a new chapter in life. This often brings new challenges to the table for me when we get into the fabrics and the paint colours as I have to understand their cultural background and what colour means to them. For example I had a client who was Dutch and the colour orange was a favorite for him. I never realized this myself, but after a bit of research that orange is the colour of Dutch Royal Family, and having grown up with this, orange was a colour that reminded him of home and very much represented his own cultural identity. This for me becomes a fun twist on how our design will evolve to suite the client’s personal expression. So for this particular client we ended up using orange in some of the tiles and furniture. Not only did this create a dramatic and unique design that expressed them, it also made a beautiful and unique design statement.