Teresa Dane Marcel


It was a breezy, lazy, sunny day. I lay on the grass looking up at the sky, watching sparse white puffs of cloud slowly move across my field of vision. I was a child of 8 years, perhaps, and as I absorbed the glorious blue-ness of the sky, I asked myself: “I wonder if everyone sees color the same way?”
I pondered the question a while, then answered myself with the absolute confidence of a child: “No, because if they did, everyone would like the same colors.” This first memorably conscious awareness of color later became a knowing that our interaction with, and connection to, color is a profoundly personal matter, linked superficially to our likes, dislikes, needs, preferences – and on a deeper level, to the core of who we are as individuals.

​​Teresa Dane Marcel

in the beginning...

​That was Teresa's first insight into the nature of color, and the beginning of her passion for color. The insight took root, and over the next two decades she both explored and developed a relationship with color primarily through working with fibers and textiles.

​This was heavily influenced by the light and landscapes of the places she inhabited during those years: the tropical lusciousness of southern Brazil, the often smog-obscured sparkling light of southern California, the grounded-ness of old stones intermingled with the exuberant colors of southern France, the changing seasons filtered through the thin mile-high air of Colorado, the stark contrasts inherent to Alaska – so completely different from the shimmering heat of the sandy browns and beiges of Arabia.

color, color, color

Then came the 1980s, and Color Me Beautiful. A client brought along 'her colors', and asked Teresa to custom make her a yellow and gray striped sweater – a combination Teresa could not fathom, and which, much to her surprise, turned out beautifully. Intrigued, she ‘had her colors done’. There was definitely something in the concept that spoke of truth, even if not all the pieces fit together perfectly. 

She became a color consultant, and her color expertise grew out of that Color Me Beautiful wave of the 80s, flowed in and out of the 90s with Angela Wright’s Colour Affects, but landed in the 21st century with many questions still unanswered.

color insight

Then, one spring afternoon in 2009, while looking at a color chart, three seemingly unrelated aspects of her color knowledge came together:
1. personal color preferences & needs
2. Three dimensional color models
3. Digital color
And she had a deep insight into an obvious and logical pattern in color.

In that moment, the
RESONANCE COLOR MODEL
​was conceived and the creation and painstaking research began.

education. experience. evolution.

... and dedication, passion, hard work.
education
• BA in languages & literature
• MA in communications
• Diploma in psychotherapeutic counseling
• Trained in 3 different personal color consulting methods.
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experience
• 30+ years as color psychologist & consultant
• Teacher & trainer – from graduate level university courses to community education, and professional organizations.
evolution
• Student of color in nature, fibers, fashion, design.
• Color consultant in fashion and interiors.
• Color as communication.
•  Creator of Resonance Color, a new color model for the 21st century.