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This month, Mary Gartside has been added to the #ODNB. She was a flower painter and art teacher, and is now recognised as an important contributor to the history of colour in theory and practice 🎨 Learn more: oxford.ly/4gb5By4

„Man muss etwas machen, um selbst keine Schuld zu haben. Dazu brauchen wir einen harten Geist und ein weiches Herz. Wir haben alle unsere Maßstäbe in uns selbst, nur suchen wir sie zu wenig.“ Sophie Scholl, geboren am 9. Mai 1921 in Forchtenberg

The laburnum arches in the walled garden at Preston Manor Brighton Museums are beginning to bloom.

Japanese pigments from a Kyoto shop called Painted Clouds. There since 1863, and allegedly frequented by David Bowie. These available in the papeterie ChoosingKeeping in London.

A parliament of palettes? A flock of palettes? A conspiracy of palettes? At Frith Street Gallery, London. By Cornelia Parker.

Poppies in the dark. On way home in Lewes, East Sussex.

A big jar of Potter's Pink in the Royal Pavilion Banqueting Room. A subtle, quiet, granular pigment that makes other colours shine. Part of the exhibition Colour: A Chromaric Promenade through the Royal Pavilion Brighton Museums brightonmuseums.org.uk/event/colour/

Descubre cómo se ha registrado y estudiado el color a través del tiempo y cómo este conocimiento ha dado forma a nuestra comprensión del mundo visual. Una fascinante historia del color con una colección de material original. blume.net/arte/2598-colo…

Very pleased to be able to talk about this now. Along with several of my distinguished friends and colleagues in the colour world, I have contributed to this new podcast series #StoriesinColour by the National Gallery London. Launches 28 May 2025.

The full trailer of Stories in Colour – a brand-new podcast from the National Gallery – which launches with first two episodes on Wednesday 28 May. Spot my hands caressing a rare colour book, and a snapshot of the recording of the ‘Painting the rainbow’. youtu.be/UPCk9uPrr_4?si…

Wonderful to see the great Ivon Hitchens 'mural' Day's Work, Day's Rest, on eye-level and restored in pride of place at Towner Eastbourne's exhibition Sussex Modernism. Hitchens gifted it to University of Sussex soon after he visited in 1962. It usually hangs in Falmer House (see last pic).

Remember the viral dress that divided the internet back in 2015? Was it blue and black, or was it white and gold? 🤔 For the first episode of our brand-new podcast, Stories in Colour, join Professor Anya Hurlbert from Newcastle University and National Gallery host Beks Leary as they

Just this. Good night, and be good to each other.

Visions of Color: An Introduction to Color History. Delighted to say that I will be teaching this 3-part course Roundtable in June. Registration now open at roundtable.org/live-courses/a… Sessions start on 16 June 2025.

At the risk of becoming a book bore, here is another publication coming up, albeit one for which I did not write anything new. This is a shorter, smaller, more affordable edition of TASCHEN's The Book of Colour Concepts, coming out in July 2025: taschen.com/en/books/class…

How bugs turned the world red 🐛 In episode 3 of our podcast, Stories in Colour, join historian and writer Amy Butler Greenfield and National Gallery host Beks Leary as they search for the 'perfect red'. A pigment so prized that it inspired international espionage and piracy,

Introducing the new book on the Royal Pavilion (by moi) at a symposium in Hangzhou, China. Out on 24 June with Yale University Press London 📖 Brighton Museums

A couple of hours to myself at the Grand Canal in Hangzhou, China. #GongchenBridge

The colours of Chinese tea, at the serene museum of tea in Hangzhou.

It's been a very good #Bloomsday2025. Best b'day card: colours collected on the Isle of Lewis by artist Brece Honeycutt. #naturalpigments