What are you saying with the colours you wear? How do the colours on your walls affect you? Learn about how colours affect our moods and perceptions, our purchase decisions, and even our level of aggression. Listen as Dr. Andrea and the three experts she interviews (quilting store owner Daryl Aitken, decorator Jenn Purkis, and photographer Lori Ryerson) share their expertise and stories about colour.

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References & Links

Guest Experts

* Daryl Aitken at Fabric Spark – https://fabricspark.com/

* Jenn Purkis at X&In – https://www.xandindesign.com/

* Lori Ryerson at Focalocity – https://www.focalocity.ca/

Colour Theory

* RGB 3-D Colour Cube video: https://youtu.be/W2HHF0EiuY8

* Pantone Colour of the Year: https://store.pantone.com/uk/en/colour-of-the-year

* Chromophobia – fear of a colour: Batchelor, David, Chromophobia,Reaktion Books: London, 2000 ISBN 978-1-86189-074-0 https://www.amazon.ca/Chromophobia-David-Batchelor/dp/1861890745

* Synesthesia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia

* Consumer perceptions of colour: https://academic.oup.com/jcr/article/44/2/396/2939542

* Art-buyers’ perceptions of colour: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00181-017-1413-4

* Memory & Colour: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3743993/

* Language & colour: https://www.pnas.org/content/104/19/7780

* Meanings & perceptions of colours: https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/26/health/colourscope-benefits-of-a-colourful-life/index.html

* Black versus white – colour and aggression: Webster, G., Urland, G., & Correll, J. (2011). Can Uniform Color Color Aggression? Quasi-Experimental Evidence From Professional Ice Hockey Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3 (3), 274-281 DOI: 10.1177/1948550611418535

TalkAboutTalk

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* Andrea: [email protected]

Transcript & Commentary

I am very excited about this episode.  I’ve been planning an episode focused on colour since the inception of TalkAboutTalk.  I love colour.  I always have. Colour affects me. Colour TALKS to me.

For those of you who have been listening to the TAT podcast, you may be familiar with the 5 Rapid Fire Qs that I ask every guest.  One of the questions is, “WHAT KIND OF LEARNER ARE YOU? How do you learn best?”  Well, my answer would be that I am a VISUAL learner.  Colours impact me. But whether you are a visual learner or not, you are affected by colour you’re also communicating with colour. So listen up!

As a painter I do know some about colour, but I did a lot of research too, and I’m eager to share that with you.  I also interviewed 3 experts whose professions focus on colour to some extent: an interior decorato...