Paint
Numerous strengths and hues of grey and blue were used to create the desired
colour palette for the consulting and waiting rooms.
“Multiple glazes of dark pigments of varying opacity result in a picture surface that seems flat yet quivers and vibrates, offering a sense of atmospheric depth. Rothko hoped that these compositional strategies would invite visual and emotional contemplation, creating the conditions for silence and reflection.”
The waiting room’s graduated paint surfaces were influenced by artist Mark Rothko, where canvases act as windows to shared worlds. The gradations also represent how emotions, and relationships, move between shades of grey, to ‘black’, then again to ‘lighter emotions’. Well-known aspirational expressions include, “lightness of being” and “seeing the light”. Equally, ‘“exploring the dark side” is a ubiquitous part of any therapy experience. Darkness is palpable and ever-near; solid and low, holding dense and real.
