Detail of Colorful, acrylic on canvas by Cai Toy

A place
between
things.

Colour before language.
Feeling before form.

Enter the collection Colorful
Cai Toy · Acrylic on canvas
Fire — acrylic on canvas by Cai Toy
02 / An artist’s favourite

Fire

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Blue — acrylic on canvas by Cai Toy
03 / An artist’s favourite

Blue

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01 / The work

Somewhere between
a memory and a mood.

Fifteen paintings. One concentrated period of discovery. A self-taught artist learning what paint could do — and when to let it do something unexpected.

02 / A conversation in colour

Your room.
Your atmosphere.
A new painting.

Start with a painting you love, a photograph of your space, or a feeling you cannot quite name. We will find the palette together.

Make something personal
Wood, a tall ivory and ochre paintingWood / c. 2014

“I did a bunch of ugly ones until I started to learn how to control what I was doing.”

Meet Cai Toy
03 / Studio notes

Look longer.
See differently.

On living with abstraction