I was not melancholic when I made this painting. I love the colour blue. When I was in Marrakesh last year, I was searching for the Moroccan blue and came back home with some Indigo and a piece of Lapizlazuli to grind my own ultramarine.
In that painting, I experimented with it, raw and dissolved in different oils and acrylic. There are about 15 layers of blue. I thought of the sky, the sea, the night and what else is connected to it for me: dreams, wanderlust and profundity.
Blue stands, in different cultures, for different things: for loyalty, coldness, quality, anger, fear, care, romance, truth, peace, trust, prudence. It’s the colour of kings in France 😉
Some people are associating numbers with it (1 for a “normal” blue, 4 for a dark blue), and it is also the colour of melancholia.
Psychologists say, blue is a colour to calm you down, releasing stress, for good sleep and dreams.
It is my preferred colour for bathrooms as it is fresh and emanates purity.