b'ReseneAbove leftJan, a fabric sculpture, is one of Malibu the women Val wishes she had as a role Resenemodel growing up. The wall behind is White Thunder Resene Wasabi.ReseneAboveThe master bedroom, painted in Paua Resene Malibu, has a tapa cloth from time Val spent in Tonga with Volunteer Service Abroad. The plastic flowers are from the couples wedding party. LeftOne of Vals vibrant sofas.Val Griffith-Jones downstairs bathroom sums up her passion for colourbright ribbons of paint tied together by a bold red floor. The Marlborough artist, whose very home is a canvas, used a collection of Resene testpots from her garage to create the stunning striped wall.Her husband Don McDonald designed their Waikawa home, but gave Val carte blanche when it came to the colour scheme. For someone so enamoured with all colours, that was both exciting and excruciating. Ihadtheknowledgethatonceyouhavechosenonecolour, everything else hooks on. All the other colours have to relate to it.The deep, papal-purple-blue of Resene Paua is a backbone for the homes colour scheme. The couple decided to use colour to create individual spaces in the home. Its a small house, but you feel like you have identified rooms with a different atmosphere or feeling in each.In the perfectly cluttered living room, the Resene Paua wall stops and Resene Wasabi begins, a fresh green that is accidentally a very close relation to the homes Resene Rain Forest exterior.Vals love of colour isnt limited to paint. Her passion for textiles is put to good use in everything from bright retro cushions to bold hand-painted curtains and vintage burnt orange carpet. Her own outfits completeAboveColour is what it is all about for artist Val the package, with bright colour and pattern from head to toe. Griffith-Jones, in her paint-striped bathroom. It is through fabric that Val exercises her art, forging the most amazing Resenecreations out of apparently mundane materials, using the womanlyWasabiarts of knitting, crochet and felt, stuffing and stitching. 57'