The hues of tunes are the inspiration for Caroline Troncossi?s new psychedelic show which opens this evening.

Her show The Colour of Chords opens at the Bermuda Society of Arts, in City Hall.

Ms Troncossi said she used various artists music to paint the pictures.

?The process of making my paintings for The Colour of Chords was an experimental venture with music,? she said.

?I allowed the music to influence the moods, rhythms of my strokes, colours and forms that I chose. I made visual responses to the sounds.

?I allowed my gestures to be effected by the different types of music I was listening to and I listened to a broad range of music, from Salsa to Jack Johnson and Modest Mouse to funky grooves and jazzed up drum and bass.?

She said the key was in the variety of her musical tastes.

Ms Troncossi said: ?I started off one piece and ended up using ?Logical Progression?, by Blame.

?Each painting has a life of its own and I worked through a lot of variations during each process of each painting.

?Multi layering of the paints, colour on top of more colour, to achieve the results. The results became depth, energy, and visual enticement.?

Ms Troncossi said some of her paintings were made directly from listening to a friend mixing on his turntables and the sounds became reactive to her. ?There was poly-rhythm, meaning multiple rhythms in the style of music he was mixing, these created textures, shapes, space and colour for me,? she said.

?The various levels of musical sounds elevated the work I was producing, it was a kind of live art making, because the act became so raw with the music being mixed, which was immediately influencing the art being made.?

Ms Troncossi added that the opening of the The Colour of Chords this evening promises to be a bit of an event.

?There will be a DJ mixing music,? she said. ?The people and the music will highlight the artwork, as it is a large open room and you can really step back and be engrossed by the giant canvases.?

Ms Troncossi is one of the leading local artists in her field and she loves to create and experiment.

She said: ?I live and breathe what I do.

?I take risks in order to accomplish strong paintings.

?When something isn?t going my way I have to work harder at it and dive deeper and eventually it takes form and what I produce is stronger than what I started off with.

?Plus there are a few lessons learnt along the way. I never give up and with each work I try to take myself out of the box and mix it up a little to see what happens with the results.?

A compilation CD of music that she listened to whilst she made the paintings will also be presented to each buyer. The show is up until November 18.