Sep 21, 2014
Carolyn Seawright's palette of colours, c.1970
The artist used a wide range of pure colour to paint her highly saturated paintings. Here we see, inter alia, cadmium lemon, cadmium yellow, cadmium orange and cadmium red: scarlet lake and alizarin crimson: cobalt, cerulean and ultramarine blue: viridian and sap green and various earth colours. These are the artist's elegant if paint-stained hands, holding the signature cigarette-holder.
Carolyn's ability deftly to juggle a very large palette of colours in the service of her visionary works is rare.