Purple Day – Original Oil Painting

A world within one colour

Purple Day began as an experiment in colour. I wanted to limit myself to a single colour and explore how much expression, movement and depth could emerge through its different shades and nuances.

By working within this deliberately restricted palette, subtle variations become more important. Lighter and darker passages interact across the canvas, allowing purple to shift in character and intensity as the eye moves through the composition.

Rather than using contrasting colours to create movement, I wanted the variations within purple itself to shape the experience of the painting – revealing how a single colour can contain many different expressions.

Purple Day is an exploration of what can happen when colour is both the limitation and the possibility.

Medium: Oil on canvas
Year: 2016
Dimensions: 88 × 116 cm

Selected exhibition history
Tokyo International Art Fair, Shibuya Hikarie, Tokyo, 2017 – featured in the exhibition catalogue
Art Nouveau Palace – Strandvägen 7A, Stockholm, 2018–2019
Colours and Spaces, Volvo Studio Stockholm, 2020

Explore more original oil paintings