Blue

Calming, relaxing, soothing, cooling.  Midnight blue has a strong sedative effect, allowing us to connect to our intuitive and feminine side. However, too much dark blue can be depressing.  Blue affects our minds rather than our bodies.  Blue can reduce inflammation, and be useful for stings and headaches.

Promotes:   calm, peace, relaxation, slowing down, steadying, self-expression, intuition, honesty, truth, cleansing, soothing.

Good for:  infections with fever or inflammation, stings, headaches, period pains, insomnia.  Stress, anxiety, obsessions, psychoses, learning difficulties.

Do not use in:  depression, loneliness.

Complementary colour    Orange or Yellow

Use in the Home

• Any room except those used for physical activity and play.  Perfect for bedrooms.

Colour Personality

• A person who favours blue is sensitive and easily hurt.  You never panic and are in total control of your life and content with the way it is going.  You desire to lead an uncomplicated and worry-free life, and are prepared to sacrifice certain goals in order to achieve this.   You need a stable relationship without conflict.  Perhaps as a side-effect to contentment, you tend to put on weight.  The later blue appears in your list, the more unsatisfied you are the more you feel the need to break from the ties that restrict you.  But you may not feel able to do anthing about this; instead, you may suffer in silence.
• Relaxed, quiet, not confident, withdrawn, organised, creative, sluggish, sensitive, inhibited, honest.

Green

Has a strong affinity with nature, and helps us to connect to others and to the natural world.  It is the colour of balance. It gives a feeling of comfort and relaxation, calmness and space.  It reduces stress, soothing and steadying our emotions.  Green may also have antiseptic properties, and thought to destroy embryonic cell structure.

Promotes:   Balanace, personal development, self-acceptance, compassion for self and others.

Good for:   Stress, fear, self-pity, confusion.  Physical health problems, nausea, cancer treatment, heart problems, blood pressure problems, immune system problems, fatigue, headaches, flu symptoms.

Complementary colour       Violet / Purple 

Use in the Home

• Depending on shade, can be used in most areas.   Anywhere you need to relax.  Use with other colours to avoid balance and harmony becoming more like total inactivity and indecision.

Colour Personality

• Green as your favourite colour, means you are persistent, possessive and quite selfish.  You are a high achiever and an accumulator of "things" - like a penthouse, a Rolex, holiday flat, CD player.  If green is down the list of your favourite colours, your ego has been bruised and you have been humbled by the resistance to your progress.  Consequently, you can be highly critical, sarcastic and stubborn.
• In equilibrium, conscientious, circumspect, harmonious, understanding, contented, cautious, reserved, tidy.

http://www.getselfhelp.co.uk/colour.htm

Colour for Mental Health & Colour Breathing 

Light & colour are vibrating energies, each colour having its own wavelength and frequency.  The different colours are created by light waves of differing lengths.  The colours we see in the objects around us are caused by the light waves being absorbed or reflected off the object.   Without light, there is no colour.  Dark objects absorb more light rays, and reflect less light, whilst objects that look light, are reflecting more light, and absorbing less.

We can use colour in our clothing, our decor, colours of food we eat, or visualise a colour, in crystals or stained water, our choice of plants and flowers, to help us balance and benefit our body, mind and emotions.   We tend to instinctively be drawn towards the colours we need, perhaps being drawn to blue when feeling anxious or stressed.

Complementary Colours

Each colour has its own complementary or contrasting colour.  A complementary colour is the opposing colour on the colour wheel.  This is useful when you are, for instance, feeling blue - you can wear or visualise orange to lift your mood.  When working with colours and feeling unsure, trust your intuition.

Primary & Secondary Colours

The 3 Primary Colours are Red, Yellow and Blue.  Mixing 2 colours will result in the colour between them on the colour wheel.  This is called the Secondary Colour.  If you mix a Primary Colour with a Secondary Colour, the result will be a Tertiary Colour.  Secondary and Tertiary colours will include properties from each of the colours, for example:

Orange          will include properties of red and yellow

Green                                             blue and yellow

Turquoise                                       green, blue and yellow

Violet                                             red and blue

Blue is the colour if you have mental illness Mental health patients are feeling blue

• Marc Abrahams
• The Guardian, Tuesday 24 June 2008
• Article history

The year 1931 stands out in the history of research about mentally ill people's favourite colours. That summer, Siegfried E Katz of the New York state psychiatric institute and hospital published a study in the Journal of Applied Psychology called Colour Preference in the Insane.

Assisted by a Dr Cheney, Katz tested 134 hospitalised patients with mental health problems. For simplicity's sake, he limited the testing to six colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet. No black. No white. No shades of grey.

"These colours," he wrote, "rectangular in shape, one and one-half inches square, cut from Bradley coloured papers were pasted in two rows on a grey cardboard. They were three inches apart. The colours were numbered haphazardly and the number of each colour placed above it. The cardboard was presented to the patient and he was asked to place his finger on the number of the colour he liked best. After he had made the choice he was asked in a similar manner for the next best colour, and so on."

Some of the patients "cooperated well", and made six choices. Others, Katz reported, "quickly lost interest and made only one, two or three".

Blue was the most popular colour. Men, in the aggregate, then favoured green, but women patients were divided on green, red or violet as a second choice.

Patients who had resided in the hospital for three or more years were slightly less emphatic about blue. Katz says these long-term guests were "those with most marked mental deterioration". Their preference, as a group, shifted towards green and yellow.

Those of longest tenure, though few in number, had a slightly elevated liking for orange.

The report is packed with titbits that beg, even now, for further analysis:

· 38% of schizophrenics and manic depressives, each, gave first preference to blue, and 42% of all other patients

· Green received the first choice from 16% of schizophrenics, 9% of manic depressives, and 13% of other diseases

· For red as first choice, the percentage of votes were: manic depressives, 16; other diseases, 15; schizophrenics, 12. As second choice, they were: manic depressives, 22; schizophrenics, 18; other diseases, 13

· Orange and yellow were also best liked by manic depressives; green by schizophrenics; and violet by all others.

Katz foresaw practical applications for his research. He suggested that "in the furnishings of living quarters the selection of colours pleasing to special groups of patients might be worth consideration".

Consciously or not, hospital staff seem to have followed Katz's insights in fashioning their personal at-work appearance. The evocatively named Bragard Medical Uniforms, a New York firm founded in 1933, now publishes a list of the most popular uniform colours. The list currently is topped by, in order: royal blue; dark grey (which, alas, Katz excluded from his 1931 survey); dark green; and red.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/jun/24/highereducation.improbableresearch

another influence...

http://www.tim-maguire.com/









tim maguire is an influence for my photography work to do with my idea of flow and water in my work. i have used his idea of layering colour and water on photoshop to produce my own photos.

influences and artists & ideas :)...

http://www.chihuly.com/

giving you some influences for work and ideas.






Dale Chihuly is an influence for my studio practice work to do with lights as i have a past behind lights and colour and also i think that light and colour goes very well together.

Havard Referencing...

WEBSITE:


unknown. (2011). Colour therapy healing. Available:http://www.colourtherapyhealing.com/colour/blue.php. Last accessed 8th Nov 2011

Erskine. (unknown). FRIEZE magazine Issue 68 June -August 2002 Catherine Yass.. Available: http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/catherine_yass/. Last accessed 8th Nov 2011

BOOK:

Adams,P & Hilty G (2000). Catherine Yass: Works, 1994-2000. London: asprey jacques. p4-30.