A Hark to the Sunset

Rose Pillkington created a series of abstract prints for the De-Escalation Room using soft gradations of colour. She chose a calming, delicate pastel colour palette, a hark to a sunset, and gave the artworks a subtle sense of depth so that they could also be interpreted as landscapes. Behind these, she painted three walls with two-tone gradients, in the hope that it might give an impression of actual light and the spectrum of colour within it, hitting a wall. Pilkington believes our relationship with colour and light go hand in hand; and that as the cells in our body absorb light, and we perceive colour through light, it can affect us on every level, physically, and emotionally.