A New Website
Nanna van Heest
Over the past few weeks, I have been working hard on a new website. A website that showcases the work I have created over the last few years, since my Master’s research. A portfolio full of colour, research, murals, exhibitions, and a series of works that are for sale.
I am an artist and colour researcher working and living in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Colour takes centre stage in my work as a carrier of personal memories and sensory experiences. From an artistic and research-based approach, I develop colour studies in which the subjective experience of colour is explored and made visible.
My work grows out of observation, slowness, and attention - using colour as a way to perceive more intensely and to come closer to the present moment. Through abstract colour fields, I document and preserve combinations in which colours emerge or can be (re)organised.
To understand the phenomenon of colour and to train my eye, I often work in series. Through systematic colour studies, I explore both the optical effects and the experiential qualities of colour.
These series are realised across different media, including drawings, paintings, murals, textile installations, and screen prints. Alongside my autonomous work and commissioned colour consultancy, I develop interactive workshops that invite participants to discover and deepen their own experiences of colour.
My fascination with colour comes from an insatiable curiosity - how colour constantly shifts depending on context, perception, and personal association. I’m intrigued by how two people can see the same colour yet experience it entirely differently. The tension between the shared and the personal. Conceptually, I understand colour as a relational phenomenon rather than a fixed entity. I’m interested in colour as something unstable and subjective-something that resists absolute definition and instead reveals itself through context: next to another colour, within a space, through memory, language, or emotion.