Seeker

Today I am grateful for colour.  Since starting to paint with  watercolour I have been astonished by how many different hues can be created using just three primaries, a red, a yellow and a blue.  There's no limit really. The Australian poet Dorothea McKellar (1885-1968) wrote a poem in 1909 which paints a picture of the strong hues of Australia, expresses gratitude to God for colour and for being able to recall colours in the memory. It was said to be her favourite of the poems she wrote and so was read at her funeral Here it is: COLOUR The lovely things that I have watched unthining, unknowing, day by day. That their soft dyes have steeped my soul in colour that will not pass away. Great saffron sunset clouds and larkspur mountains, and fenceless miles of plain. And hillsides golden-green in that unearthly clear shining after rain; And nights of blue and pearl, and long smooth beaches, yellow as sunburnt wheat. Edged with a line of foam that cr...