What Color Wants to Say

I stand in front of a blank canvas, listening to the music that is always my muse — not for words, but for tone, or energy. Music opens the door to a vibration. A whisper. Because color always knows what it wants to say long before I do. My job is to listen, to translate its pulse into movement and light. Sometimes the brush just waits. The color isn’t ready to speak yet.

Color has its own vocabulary — a rhythm that doesn’t need words.

Red (my favorite color) is the heartbeat — risk, vitality, the energy before to step forward. Deep Blue (cobalt) is breath — stillness, depth, the memory of something just out of reach.

When I paint, these colors begin to talk to one another. They overlap, argue, soften. The process feels like holding a conversation between energy and emotion — I’m simply the one making it visible.

There’s a moment in every painting where color takes over. In Jubilee, cobalt insisted on staying even when I tried to cover it. It wanted to be seen — to hold its ground against the heat of magenta. I stopped arguing and let it speak.

That’s when painting feels most alive — when the dialogue shifts and I realize I’m not creating, I’m collaborating.

Jubilee

Collectors often tell me they “felt” a piece before they understood why. That’s how color works. It bypasses logic and goes straight to emotion — a silent conversation between the art and your own inner landscape.

When color is right, it changes a space. It breathes life into quiet walls, infuses energy, and becomes part of the room’s heartbeat.

Color has always known what it wants to say. I just give it a voice. If you listen closely, you’ll hear it too — the language underneath the layers, the wild ideas I think of, is the messenger behind my brushstroke.

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Barbara Mosher - Abstract Artist - Collected Worldwide

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