Colour Visions

Colour Visions is a collaborative arts and mental health project founded by Lisa- Marie Gibbs that creates spaces to, access independent free thinking creative experiences that empower, unify and become an integral part of recovery and healthy human development. Nurturing individual perspectives through a collective vision. In partnership with Compass Recovery College, we work with people facing mental health challenges & newly arrived asylum seekers & refugees in Reading. Colours are the unifying theme across this project. Colours establish a deep relationship between people and place, past and present. In a colour palette each colour is equivalent to and independent of itself, there are no hierarchies.

Supported by Arts Council England

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‘Sound as colour’ – Chuckuemeka Obiorah – Watercolour 2023

‘Safety orange Hex #FF7900’ Shahid arrived in Folkestone on 27.12.2021 from Calais, after months of travelling on foot from Syria. He has lost all his family to war. Words Shahid, Translated by Mo, Design Lisa-Marie, Typeset Darren 2023

Blackened I came here from Afghanistan leaving suddenly in terror, leaving everything behind. I felt there was hope. But now, after 19 months of living in a hotel, without any notion of future. All colours are fading, along with my hope. Zahab – Coloured pencil & monoprint – 2023