Beyond Theory

I worked it out so that the cycles work in terms of how your eye sees things,” Hersey says.  “It’s not just theoretic.  In nature, one sees centers of intense color and all the variations of that color until it gets so weak or so influenced by something else that it becomes another color.  Stable color does not exist.  It’s an  illusion of the sun.  You look out the window,  you’ll find that what was a beautiful pale green is now a dark blueish green.  Color in nature is changing all the time.  These changes are what I am trying to illustrate in my color sets.  Of course it’s not complete.  If you are going to make pastels to illustrate the entire universe, you’re going to make millions of pastels.

Hersey found inspiration in his surroundings.  He comes originally from the south of England, which he describes as foggy and misty, with poor light for an artist.  The light in Northumberland, where he has come to live, is particular.  “It’s Roman light up here,” he says.  “Very brilliant, incandescent and radiant.  Like the works of Plussy and Claude.  Even if you drive south one hundred and fifty miles from here, all the colors begin to fade.  The light has been an enormous influence for me".

The Richness. From Our Hands To Yours.