Vicky West 50ml EDT Head – Lemon, Lime Heart – Juniper Berry, Ginger, Lavender Body – Rosewood Description – A pure ode to colour, this fragrance sees all primary and secondary colours represented through scent, with citrus top notes also alluding to inherent joy. This perfume was housed at Surface Gallery, Nottingham, from 3rd – 17th November. #portraiture #portrait #culture #joy #Art #perfume #smell #perfumery #colour #exhibition #fragrance #citrus #events #Scent

Another month, another great opportunity to extend my Perfume as Practice body of work beyond portraiture. Notes of the Bard combines fragrance, poetry, colour and photography in order to highlight how each of those disciplines can act as a foundation for creative processes. It also attempts to elevate perfumery as a viable medium for communication, as when placed within the context of other creative disciplines a capacity for interpretation, investigation and inspiration is

Utilising the craft of perfumery as a means to create portraiture has been at the heart of my creative practice and intentions for about 2 years now. While this will persist in 2017 I’m increasingly aware of the capacity perfume has to relate to other manners of creative practice. As such, I have developed a hunch; can scent communicate colour and as such, can perfumes be created that represent the colour spectrum? Scent can certainly evoke colour; but the evocative qualities

Taking ideas from artists and turning them into paint. Each paint is already primed with implications and preconceptions based on the artists’ ideas: This allows you to choose between using the paint as a raw medium, or exploiting the connotations found within the paint. The choice is yours. Colour #1 – The Hotel A theatrical exploration of the properties of pigment, ‘The Hotel’ has a clean texture and smooth consistency that evokes certain nostalgia. With a strong surface sh