Playing with Colour
With works by Ken Done and Miik Green
The three main properties of colour are hue, lightness, and saturation. Colour exists at the intersection of science and sensation. It can be measured as wavelength and spectrum, yet its meaning is deeply personal, shaped by context and memory.
‘Playing with Colour’ brings together two artists with two distinct practices but connected perspectives, whose works explore colour not simply as a visual element, but as a force that shapes perception, memory and emotional experience. Vivid colours and immersive surfaces are seen through very different lenses: Miik, precise and almost microscopic, Ken, expansive and expressive. Together they reveal how the colour palette can move beyond representation to become something sensory: a way of understanding and feeling.
What Is Colour and how does it inform the way we experience and understand the world around us? Miik Green and Ken Done invite a renewed way of seeing — Miik is the science, Ken is the feeling – Both grounded in observation, curiosity and the sensory power of colour in paint.
Cottesloe Gallery
3 -28 June 2026
Exhibited Works
“I often spend my time painting from memory and experience. The reef still holds a great fascination for me, both at night and during the day. My enthusiasm for the reef has, in the instance of Green reef, 2004, extended off the canvas and onto the frame. The abstract, Playing, 2025, depicts a joyful interaction between paint and canvas...literally playing with colour.” -Ken Done May 2026
“My work is about discovery, colour experiments, and pushing materials and surfaces to their limits.” -Miik Green, 2026
