Talking colour – Tallulah Wallace

While exploring colour in London, I started to notice new as well as repeating colour combinations found them in posters, graffiti, brickwork, nature and loads more . I realised that the way a colour is perceived is heavily influenced by its surroundings especially within the city. This led me to base my “exploring colour” task on focussing how the context around a colour can completely transform the way it appears. I really wanted to explore this idea but in my own way including bits of realism as well as my own abstraction.

1- This piece is demonstrating in the simplest form how contrasting and out of place colours (in this instance black) can look when compared to bright colour. The black becomes over powering and the vibrance of the red and blue all of a sudden sinks to the back of the focal point. This is significant as if this black was layered over a photograph taken in a very urban location filled with greys and blacks it would not stand out at all.

2- In this piece i have done the opposite. i have contrasted the greys and dull colours of the background with vibrant blues and reds taken from various places and marks i have seen all over London. This really emphasises the idea that the context and surroundings of a colour can change it completely. i have seen these colours amongst various graffiti walls all over London in places like Shoreditch and Hackney wick but only now i feel they are at their mot vibrant.

3- This is a vibrant wall in Hackney being over powered by the deep black found in other parts of the city. The black looks out of place and un-belonging

4- This is a more abstract piece that was influenced by how the colours seen across the city made me feel and how they connected to my self and my own experiences. All the colours that i saw resembled or inflicted memories and feelings within me. Weather it was a consequence decision to connect the colours to emotions or not it did make me feel something. What i discovered about colour is that it connects with everyone in a completely different way.

This is a simple piece that really shows the vibrance of colour when its compared to dull shades.

i took a different approach with this piece as i wanted to connect with how the colour is created. Lots of places i saw full of colour were created by spray paint, therefor i created the colour upon a spray paint bottle to really draw together the story and life cycle of how the art and colours are created. i painted, drew and expressed places such as China town that i visited and became inspired by the colours in the surroundings.

-Throughout all of my work created i only used shapes that i had seen all around the city. The little doodles are taken from zoomed in art work, graffiti, buildings and shapes found amongst them all.