The Colour of Love
A Meditative Palette Knife Workshop at Romulus Folio Gallery
Romulus Folio Gallery recently presented The Colour of Love, a guided palette knife painting workshop facilitated by artist and curator, Angelina Mirabito. The session invited participants into a structured meditation exploring four dimensions of love: self-love, shared love, love of life, and the experience of being loved. Each reflection was translated into colour and carried onto canvas through gesture, pressure, and texture, allowing internal states to take visual form.
The workshop opened with breath and sensory awareness, grounding participants in their bodies before movement began. Colour selection emerged from reflection rather than pre-planning, and the process unfolded gradually as each participant built a surface responsive to sensation and intuition. The atmosphere throughout the afternoon was peaceful and concentrated, with a collective willingness to enter the meditation fully and remain open to the unfolding composition.
Material engagement formed the core of the experience. Palette knives were used to press, layer, drag, and build density across the canvas, generating structural rhythm through repetition and variation. At moments, participants shifted from blade to fingers and hands, deepening tactile connection with the paint and increasing sensitivity to surface tension. The physicality of application shaped the compositional outcome, creating works that carried weight, movement, and visual coherence.
As colour fields accumulated, each canvas developed its own internal logic. Some works evolved through bold structural gestures that anchored the composition; others emerged through subtle tonal shifts and layered translucency. During the integration phase, participants stepped back to observe how their four colours interacted spatially, where they overlapped, where they held space, and how they supported the overall balance of the work.
At Romulus Folio, workshops operate in dialogue with the gallery’s exhibition program and broader curatorial research. They extend the gallery’s commitment to embodied perception, material inquiry, and contemporary practice within a community setting. The Colour of Love demonstrated how guided meditation and tactile painting processes can translate internal states into materially resolved surfaces within a collective setting, reinforcing the gallery’s role of creative activation and reflective engagement.
Future workshops will continue to explore the relationship between meditation, gesture, and surface within the evolving Romulus Folio program.
Romulus Folio Gallery
The Gladstone
55 Gladstone Street,
South Melbourne, VIC, 3205
Gallery Hours
Wednesday to Friday 12 pm to 7 pm
Saturday to Sunday 12 pm to 5 pm
By appointment outside these hours
Artist-led contemporary gallery and studio residency program.
Exhibitions, workshops, salons, and public programs held monthly.