Haiku in Paint

This short poem is composed from the names of paint colours from 18 different manufacturers. By assembling swatches from sample cards and brochures, phrases and small blocks of colour are built to visualise a story and bring to mind the essence of the haiku.

This work was made for Issue 54 of The Light Ekphrastic February 2024, an online journal dedicated to the creation of new written and visual artworks through collaboration between artists.

For each issue, writers and artists are paired, each creating a new piece of visual or written artwork inspired by work previously submitted by their partner artist.