When Colour Came To Play by Miriam Traher

Discovery

A wandering path across the surface where the magenta pulses and the lines refuse to stay still. Remembering what it feels like to stand with arms wide open, breathless, and simply be there.

Miriam Traher
When Colour Came To Play
Acrylic on Board, maple drop in frame
36 x 48 x 1.75 in
Framed: 38 x 50 x 1.75 in
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When Colour Came to Play
This is the way feeling speaks.
Not in whispers, but in a wide-open
movement across the surface—
rising, wandering, and settling again.

It’s the experience of the land.
The wide fields, the open sky,
and that sudden, breathless moment
when you feel completely present in the world.

We aren't describing a place.
We are remembering what it feels like
to stand somewhere open and simply be there.

The magenta pulses, the lines wander,
and the energy refuses to stay still.
It moves the way life moves through a landscape,
claiming the horizon and inviting you in.

It’s about the unfiltered right now.

A heart full of wandering momentum.
A landscape that exists only in the feeling.
The exuberant joy of being wide awake.

Collections: Abstract Landscape, Black & White, Floral Art, Medium Size

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Based in London, Ontario, Miriam Traher creates expressive abstract paintings rooted in movement, atmosphere, texture, memory, and joy. Through layered surfaces, calligraphic marks, and intuitive colour, her work explores the moments, feelings, conversations, and little bits of beauty that make us feel fully alive.

Inspired by weathered surfaces, shifting light, flowers, music, storytelling, and the emotional energy between things, her paintings invite viewers to pause, feel, and discover their own connections within the work.

Miriam Traher

Denfield, ON

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