Welcome to the 2nd September edition of ICA-Belgium Colour News, bringing you colour related news from Belgium and around the world.
Don’t miss our online September Colour Talk with Harald Arnkil, the registration is open. We also share the latest news by our members, and introduce you another Colour News editor joining the team.
Warm greetings from Belgium,
-your ICA-Belgium team
On Sunday September 28, 2025, at 10:00 CEST, our guest will be Harald Arnkil, a Finnish artist, writer, colour researcher, founder and former president of Suomen väriyhdistys, the Finnish Colour Association. He will talk about how contemporary artists use colours, and how they regard colour theories.
There will be time for Q&A. Jeannette Hanenburg, Inez Michiels and Maja Kaurin invite you to join the conversation.
The event is free but it requires registration, the places are limited.
For more details about the event, see here.
Introducing Deidre Tomlinson, editor of Books on Colour
Deidre [Dee] Tomlinson is an interdisciplinary scholar, who holds a Bachelor of Science from Queen’s University, Bachelor of Urban + Regional Planning from Ryerson University, and Master of Design from OCAD University. For years, she also assisted with the delivery and evaluation of the undergraduate colour science curriculum at York University.
Through a polychromatic lens across public art, architecture, and urban design, she has conducted research projects with municipal stakeholders throughout Canada and the U.S. One of Deidre's publications includes her graduate thesis, titled "Designing Inclusive Playscapes Across Sensory + Socio-Spatial Boundaries."
In addition to presenting at AIC2016: "Color in Urban Life: Images, Objects and Spaces" in Chile and being an Executive Member of the Colour Research Society of Canada, Deidre has performed and published work in the arts, design, humanities, and natural/physical sciences (i.e., literary non-fiction, biology, music, dance).
Welcome, Deidre!
Members’ News
Tina Stieger: Invitation to the Hidden Colours Workshop
Tina Stieger is hosting a colour workshop on 14 September 2025, in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
In the workshop, participants engage with their surroundings by collecting natural materials such as leaves, petals, bark, and flowers. These gathered elements form the basis for creating personal colour palettes and visual compositions.
The process encourages close observation, revealing the subtle variations of tone found in nature, whether in rural or urban environments, while also allowing space for an intuitive, sensory approach to colour.
For more information see here.
@tinastieger / Tina Stieger / Embassy of Colour
Maja Kaurin: Talk - Colour & Wellbeing
On the 19th of September, Maja Kaurin is giving a talk on the topic of spatial colour and its influence on health and well-being.
How can a strategic use of colour promote and improve health and well-being? How does colour affect mood and productivity? Is there such a thing as colour psychology?
The presentation will showcase how colour applied in a strategic way, either in public, healthcare or residential environment, can positively impact spatial perception, mood, motivation, behaviour, safety, health and well-being.
You are warmly invited!
Date: September 19, 2025, at 19:30
Location: PLEK Brussels, 160 Rue de Laeken, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
The talk is part of the Exhibition Collective Roots: Innerscapes of Healing and on view at PLEK Brussels until 21 September 2025.
The event is free, but it requires registration; the places are limited.
@colorspotter / The Colourspotter Chronicles / LinkedIn
Workshop COLOURSCAPES
Maja Kaurin is inviting you for a colour workshop on Saturday, the 13th of September. Colourscapes is a workshop that will take you on a colour walk through the streets of Brussels and the Brussels Botanical Garden, observing your surroundings in a new and creative way, by mapping colour, texture, shapes, patterns, light and sound. You will learn how to use colour as a catalyst, expressing emotions through the interplay of colour, shape, and texture. By exploring colour and colour narratives of abstract collage, you will create your own colour story.
In case you missed…
Articles about colour
Mitja Tušek – Colors between Abstraction and Figuration
Vinciane Lacroix reflects on the exhibition Wait and See and the art of Mitja Tušek, leading us into his chromatic and pictorial explorations.
Joie de vivre
Inez Michiels tells a story behind her mural and how she sought to translate into colour and shape a reflection of happiness, serene yet full of life, an attempt to capture not just a place, but a deep emotion.
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