Jeanne In The Loft……From ‘Emergence’ Magazine…..
by Bernie Bell - 08:38 on 01 September 2025
Jeanne In The Loft……
Local artist Jeanne Bouza Rose….
…….is having a September exhibition at the Loft Gallery, St. Margaret’s Hope where she’s showing some of her final Ness paintings…..
A reminder of what The Ness was, and is….
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/
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From ‘Emergence’ Magazine…..
by Stephanie Krzywonos
Forty thousand years ago, deep within a limestone cave in northern Spain, a small group of people pressed their hands to the rock and blew red ochre across them in one of the earliest known uses of color to mark human presence. Around four thousand years later, in a similar cave in southern France, scenes of impressive animals such as bison, mammoths, and woolly rhinoceroses were shaded with black charcoal pigment derived from scorched pine wood. Our use of color to tell stories is ancient and intuitive, and threads through history into the present.
This week, writer Stephanie Krzywonos opens a door into a museum of color with the histories of our most iconic and desired pigments, from ochre to bone black, lapis lazuli to mummy brown. Many of our earliest paints and dyes came from alchemizing the flesh of the Earth. We mixed crushed metamorphic rock with our own spit; we extracted vibrant mucus from sea snails and drained trees of their blood-red sap. Stephanie follows a spectrum of colors from these origins, through the entangled webs of colonialism, capitalism, and the more-than-human world, to their synthetic replication and mass production. Probing how we attribute ever-changing meanings to hues and assign hierarchies to pigments, particularly in people, she invites us to see how our colors hold stories of both lightness and darkness.
https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/museum-of-color/
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