As a child when I made art, I loved the idea of pastels and lightly pressured work, where the white of the ivory page became a medium as I sketched or painted lightly with colour that would be pasteled as ever with the white coming through. The softness that white brings to every colour ridiculously softens the aura of any painting, art or craft and with that was the love for Monet, then Manet and slowly every other artist, including Serov’s “The Girl with the Peaches”, all fashioned with a delicious dose of white, not the stark Apple kind, yet the soft vanilla kind in warm light. And with Pantone declaring a certain warm shade of white as the colour of the year I couldn’t be happier, because after the mocha brown, it is refreshing to have warm white dominate the merchandise of the design world next year, including the furniture fairs around the world, meaning we may just have a lot of white dominate our lives in the coming year. While everyone has a favourite colour, it is lovely to have a year of white. A colour when fractured gives rise to all the colours in the world, a decided rainbow certainly. What a witty name to name a shade of white, a lot inspired by the clouds that dance over our head in broad daylight. For what its worth, in fashion, I think everyone looks good in a warm white.
Yes, and cloud dancer has me dancing for sure!
Vedasri Siddamsetty 