The Pause - Three Colors Series

The moment after the realisation there is the pause and the stillness of a held breath. Of standing in the blue quiet between what you have just understood and what you are not quite ready to let go of.

This painting lives in that moment. Deep indigo at the top the weight of knowing, dense and present. And then gradually, loop by loop, the blue lightens and opens and softens downward into the palest icy white. The forms that were defined and contained at the top become looser, more open, more dissolved as they move toward the bottom.

The Pause is the second painting in three colors series. A body of work exploring emotional experience through a single colour family graduating from intensity to stillness. Each painting is one colour, one feeling, one moment in a longer human journey.

Original acrylic on canvas. 50x50cm. One of a kind, made in my Melbourne studio.

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I have been painting for twenty years — first quietly, as a private practice, and now with the intention of sharing that joy with others.
I am a Melbourne-based artist working in acrylic, and my paintings are explorations of joy, colour and the things I love — birds, flowers, botanicals and the hidden geometry I find everywhere in the natural world.
My work brings together two things: the expressive abstract world of colour and mark-making, and the observed, loved creatures and objects from my daily life. A spotted pardalote in the garden. A magnolia in bloom. The loops and forms that repeat across nature.
Every painting is one of a kind, made in my Melbourne studio — for people who want to feel something when they walk into a room.

You can also find me on instagram at frieda_l_charlotte.