An Introduction

I’m a professional artist, designer and educator based in England, a curious creative with a maximalist mindset and a deep love of colour. Creativity is a powerful force: its been my joy to research processes and explore different techniques to be incorporated into online courses with the aim to help others to embrace their own creativity and develop their unique artistic voice.

Colour is my Jam

Playing with colours is fun, everyone has their own personal favourite colours. They affect our mood and have the ability to move us. Colours can energise us or bring feelings of comfort and my philosophy is that they can also be an effective catalyst for creativity.

About Coloricombo

The concept of colour prompts started out as occasional monthly challenges on Instagram way back in 2017. The first dedicated Coloricombo challenge happened on Instagram in September of 2021, when I curated fifteen, two-colour palettes over a month that was co-hosted with Lori Siebert. The response was huge and the positive feedback was the reason I made the leap to turn it into a year long program in January 2022.

On a weekly basis, I selected a fresh colour palette and an artwork by an artist from the past, along with a short backstory. Whilst doing research into past artists, I became aware of how female artists were regularly overlooked and under represented in the past (and still are) so my emphasis over the last two years has been to share the stories of female artists.

Added to the prompts, there’s been occasional videos such as colour mixing demos and to date, over two hundred colour palettes have been shared and emailed to subscribers every Monday.

Thanks for coming along on this journey! I’m proud that Coloricombo has consistently been in Substack’s Top 50 Art & Illustration rankings. That’s entirely down to you, the readers, subscribers and especially the contributing members who make this possible.