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“Karen Speerstra tackles the ineffable in her wonderful book, weaving her lifetime of experiences and insights together with prehistory, science, art, religion, and much more. She is just the trusted author to share depths and wisdom with skill, erudition, and heart.”

—Lillian Habinowski, artist

“This book explores and reports through a very deep, thorough, and thoughtfully documented journey Karen Speerstra’s research and interpretation of color and how it impacts our total existence from birth to death and beyond. Color to me is the silent equivalent of music, the mysterious magic that totally surrounds and penetrates our being. Speerstra’s book covers so much territory so well that it is something one will want to read again and again and again.”

—Karen Petersen, sculptor and painter

“A fearlessly personal account of a lifetime spent in the emotional pull of color.

As a painter, and a teacher, I find this book especially memorable in that it brought to my ears the voices of historically “known” scientists, philosophers, mystics, and artists, all giving their ‘firsthand’ accounts of personal experiences and thoughts about light and color. Delightful to read as well are the first-person ‘voices’ of the colors themselves.

This is both a reference book for further investigations into this hugely fascinating subject and a reminder to me, as an artist, to be fully mindful of my love for and daily use of the always mysterious gifts of sunlight and color.”

—Bunny Harvey, painter and Director, Studio Art, Wellesley College

“The invitation to let our imaginations blossom with Speerstra’s meditative exercises and Julia Blackbourn’s luminous watercolors will change the way you see the world. I’ve read many books on color, but none of them leaps into the ecstatic realm as this one does. Like a prism revealing the rainbow waiting in white light, this magical book opens our eyes to the hidden dimensions of color waiting to amaze us.”

—Sharon Bauer, psychotherapist and artist

“I have long felt the power of color in a muted, general sense, but now the doors have been opened—I will not be able to look at flowers, fields, or my own paints without allowing them to touch me on a deeper level.”

—Katie Runde, artist

“Karen Speerstra leads the reader on an expansive but playful journey of Planet Earth and beyond through the investigation of color. A full spectrum of color’s connection with philosophers, inventors, scientists, artists, healers, writers, and poets becomes food for the soul.”

—Sherry Rhynard, stress management and health coach

“Color: The Language of Light could also be called An Ode to Color and Light. I particularly love how Speerstra weaves her personal stories about relatives and friends who influenced and supported her creativity and spirit throughout her life.”

—Anne Gilman, author and artist

“When Speerstra becomes someone else and speaks in narrative, she does some direct channeling. I am still hearing her words in my head. How wonderful!”

—Ellen Allen, color production editor, designer, and artist

“After reading Color, I will never look at a sunset the same way again.”

—Penny Hauser, author and psychiatric nurse

“Speerstra is able to write about spiritual concepts that we can all understand, digging deep inside us, and pulling out what we felt we knew but couldn’t express — certainly not the way she does.”

—Debra Marckres, librarian