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About the author
Victoria Alexander has worked as
a fashion editor for
Vogue
and
Cosmopolitan
, and as a freelance
stylist and art director for stills and
TV commercials. She established
a production company called The
Film Business, Sydney’s first small
boutique hotel, The Russell, and
The Bathers Pavilion restaurant
and cafe in Balmoral. These days
she loves travelling, writing and
“picture-hunting” with her camera.
Colour
is her third book.
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“I’m drawn to what’s
I
’m drawn to what’s beautiful in the
world and colour has the ability to give
instantaneous, uncomplicated pleasure.
Colour
is an expansion from my last
book,
One
, which is about finding yourself
and loving what you find – life’s as bright
and simple or as dull and difficult as you
make it. It’s layered, deconstructed, and
about showing your true colours and using
something that constantly surrounds us in
endless combinations, shades and tones,
as a source of joy.
Colour is evocative and much more than
just an expression of personal taste. It has
a direct, positive or negative, effect on our
mood. Your mood affects your emotions,
which in turn affects your decisions.
Although you may be unaware of where
a good or bad, happy or sad mood comes