Listening to Color
Presthus often describes colour as having resonance, like music. It is not merely visual, but
tonal — something that can be read, but also felt. Some paintings hum softly. Others move
like memory: in waves, in pulses. Light and heavy. Rest and crescendo.
This musicality is more than a metaphor. You can sense it in the way her new paintings —
each owning its own colour — have come together as if in conference. In the way one colour
leans into another, in the patterns of nature and life she infuses into each painting — in the
rhythm that emerges through repetition.
Step back, and you can tell that composition, for Presthus, feels less like arrangement and
more like orchestration. Each canvas holds its own movement. Together, they begin to
sound like something symphonic.
Joe Lam
