We have summer reading on our minds! We'll be sharing inspiration from our bookshelf over the next few months and would love your recommendations.

Local Color by Mimi Robinson is a beautiful book that focuses on developing a sensitivity to the color of different environments. Her palettes explore the subtle variations in hue and temperature around the world and through the seasons. ⁠

Her book resonates with my experiences of traveling and painting as an expeditionary artist. Everywhere I paint, I strive to discover my “palette of place,” a unique vocabulary of color, climate, and experiences.

⁠There's something meditative, too, about focusing on mixing color without concern of composition. ⁠

This practice of attention is what Lorene Edwards Forkner embraces with her captivating color explorations of her garden, and is the inspiration for our latest palette of place: the Garden in Bloom Palette.⁠