When Colors Forget Their Names

When Colors Forget Their Names

In When Colors Forget Their Names, Patrick Joosten surrenders the canvas to pure chromatic instinct a world where blue no longer submits to its definition, where red bleeds freely into the unknown.

True to his self-taught philosophy of unbridled creativity, Joosten builds the surface through sweeping vertical gestures and richly layered acrylics, as if the painting itself is caught mid-transformation, refusing to settle into any recognizable form.

Deep ultramarines and prussian blacks form a vibrating ground a nocturnal field echoing the emotional depth that has come to define Joosten’s work from which warm amber and cadmium yellows emerge like flickers of consciousness: brief, urgent, alive. Against this darkness, torrents of crimson and rose cascade downward, not as violence but as release, recalling the dynamic energy and bold forms for which the artist has earned international recognition.

Influenced by the chromatic meditations and the spiritual abstraction, Joosten pushes further still into a space where language dissolves and emotion takes over. When Colors Forget Their Names is an invitation to abandon the need to name what we see, and instead simply feel.

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Original artwork signed P. Joosten at the front and at the back.

Acrylic on canvas. Dimensions 95x95x4 cm

2026 – April 19th