Amaanya Bose

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Talking Colour / Talking Pattern – Amaanya Bose

Amaanya Bose ⋅ 2nd October 2025

Talking Colour – college using ripped paper and painted paper strips inspired by London’s sunsets

Talking Colour – collage of pictures, posters, and drawings from Spitalfields Market visit

Talking Colour – paint stick drawing inspired by Emily Kam Kngwarray’s Tate Modern exhibition

Talking Colour – ripped paper collage and fine liners inspired by quilts at Spitalfields market

Talking Colour – coloured fine liner pattern

Talking Colour – acrylic paint flowers from street florists

Talking Colour – coloured washi tape and fine liners, taking inspiration from Do Ho Suh’s Tate Modern exhibition

Talking Colour – watercolour and fine liners using colours of London’s sunsets

Talking Colour – collage with coloured paper strips using colours of Notting Hill houses

Talking Colour – oil pastels and coloured pencils

REFLECTION – Talking Colour and Pattern

When approaching the Talking Colour and Talking Pattern task, I decided to take advantage of the vibrancy and diversity of the city. I explored different parts of London to extract colour combinations and abstract forms that are observed in its mundane contexts. The vivid palettes used in the street art around Shoreditch, and in products sold by vendors at Old Spitalfields market served as inspiration for my initial outcomes. Other sources of inspiration came from other areas of London; I used pastels which referenced the iconic painted houses of Notting Hill, and saturated colours taken from sunsets I had captured from my bedroom window.

Throughout the task, I utilised a mixed media approach to ensure that I would be left with varied results that demonstrated experimentation. The media I used included acrylic paint, paper quilling strips, coloured pencils, paint sticks, and oil pastels. I believe that using coloured paper as a background as opposed to only white was particularly effective as this allowed me to explore colour theory by enhancing or reducing certain colours that were used.

I found that this task helped me to abandon my perfectionistic tendencies; not fixating on the result of my work enabled me to utilise a range of techniques without hesitation, to produce unexpected outcomes. I believe that this approach helped me to deviate from what I am usually accustomed to producing as I was not restricting myself to certain styles of working, or a certain medium.

To further improve what I have done, I would work on a larger scale to help my work have a greater impact, as a lot of my drawings and paintings were not any larger than an A3 size. I would also combine techniques to refine my work, as this would add dimension and more visual interest due to added texture and variations in opacity. I also believe that I would have benefitted from “zooming” in and out of my sources to achieve a different composition in my work, particularly for Talking Pattern, to explore proportion and detail in greater depth.