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A Colour A Day: Week 51
By Ruth Siddall, on 14 March 2021
A Colour A Day: Week 51. 8th – 14th March
Jo Volley writes…
This weeks colours include a text from Shaan Bevan on making her own colours.
Making my own colour from raw material allows me to examine the properties behind the colour, often beyond the physical. Collecting colour links me to place, ecology, and the process of augmentation. A scientific exploration allows me to understand the natural process behind colour and the innate physical properties that result in its behaviour. Historical research opens up complicated political and social realities that are often buried in my initial perception of the material. All of this investigation deepens my practice and allows me to uncover the poetry contained in the material I’m working with.
Shaan is an artist currently studying on the Graduate Painting programme at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL.
All pigments are bound in gum Arabic on W&N watercolour painting and read from the top:
Newman’s Dragons Blood
Bistre – Ashphaltum
Alizarin Green
Shaan Bevan’s Creosote – Atramentum
Brown Madder
