Nature of Color - by Kimberly Collins Jermain (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Influenced by her classical art training, designer and artist Kimberly Collins Jermain makes color theory simple and understandable for the everyday reader

Color is one of Mother Nature's most elegant ideas and the most powerful visual tool to inspire human response. After teaching classical art and color theory for over 35 years, Kimberly Collins Jermain believes the visual skills we need to create art and to design interior spaces can be seen and understood best right outside your back door. Nature of Color is a field guide for exploring color theory on hikes, beach walks, while gardening, or when exercising outdoors. Jermain's simple approach to color theory will train your perceptions and give you the tools you need to solve everyday problems and create with color confidence. Unlike most color theory texts, Nature of Color is an active practice of outdoor adventure. As you joyfully explore and experience color outdoors with Nature of Color, you will understand the importance of keeping nature's exquisite lessons in mind as we navigate and share our natural world.

Review Quotes

"Jermain explores the colors of Nature as she illuminates a reader's vision in this wonderful book. An artist/designer who teaches, her ability to awaken her students' minds to SEE is beautifully explored. She enhances their vision and ability to wonder."--Lois Swirnoff, Feltman Chair in Light 2001-02, The Cooper Union (4/2/2025 12:00:00 AM)

"Jermain's perspective on color has influenced the way I view the natural world. As a marine biologist, I study biodiversity--which frequently corresponds to a diversity of colors. This powerful little book will make you stop and think twice when hiking or at home to appreciate the palette around you."--Kirstin Meyer-Kaiser, PhD, Associate Scientist, Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (4/2/2025 12:00:00 AM)

"This is a field guide for a reinvention of our relationship to color but it is also a guide and joyful antidote to a world grown too thin and gray from the habit of living in only two dimensions. Jermaine is a landscape artist and color designer and passionate not only about observation but about multisensory immersion in nature with a good dose of science. She entices us out, suggests the tools, method, and even what to wear to ensure unfettered experience. Indulge in this intimate invitation to understand anew the potent potential of color."--Valerie Fletcher, Executive Director, Institute for Human Centered Design, SOWA Art + Design District (4/2/2025 12:00:00 AM)

About the Author

Kimberly Collins Jermain is a landscape painter, teacher, and architectural color designer whose work uses the power of color to change how we experience the world. Since 1989, Jermain has collaborated with over 800 clients, including homeowners, architects, interior designers, developers, and commercial property owners, on color design projects.