For more than 45 years, Maree has worked with color in the beauty and design industries.

She began her career as a hairdresser in Australia before working in London salons during the vibrant creative scene of the 1980s. Returning to Australia, Maree went on to become a Technical Advisor for Wella and later worked with leading Italian color companies, training stylists and educating professionals in the art and science of hair color.

Throughout her career, whether working behind the chair, developing products, or teaching in salons and colleges , one question kept resurfacing:

Over time I found myself asking the same question again and again.

Why is this made to seem so complicated?

More importantly, how can I help my clients make sense of it?

My words alone weren’t enough. I needed a way to help people see the bigger picture of color harmony , how colors actually relate to one another.

That search eventually led to a breakthrough.

Over time, something began to become clear.

Color harmony wasn’t really about fitting people into rigid seasonal categories. It was about understanding the relationships between colors — how tone, depth, and temperature interact.

But even the tonal systems I studied still seemed to be missing something.

Then one day the realization came almost like a revelation.

There weren’t six harmonies.

There were seven.

When those relationships were mapped more clearly, a seventh harmony appeared — a balanced spectrum that sits between the others, connecting them.

I called it Fresh.

Suddenly the system made sense in a whole new way.

From that moment, everything began to fall into place.

What had once felt complicated and fragmented became something far simpler — a way of understanding color through harmony rather than rigid categories.

That insight eventually became The Color Harmony Method™.