Tiny Experiments in Colour No2, Sarah Needham
This painting is part of the exploratory process that I have been going through 2016- 2017 developing groups of works using raw pigments. The origins of these works comes from a series I did for St Katharine Docks exploring the history as a trading centre. I started using indigo as a pigment in oil based media. I became fascinated by the way in which the pigment interacted with the media not just in terms of glossiness or matt effect but also in terms of luminosity and perception of colour. Towards the end of 2016 I branched out into other evocative pigments, pigments that had a relevant place in the history of people and trade, ochre, the oldest pigment known to have been used for mark making and the first evidence of transgeographical human trade. Chrimium oxide, a product of the industrial revolution, originally a pigment for ceramics, first used in painting by Turner: It is especially opaque. Viridian, it's close translucent relative and just a few others. In the tiny experiments in colour my aim was to produce a sense of space on a tiny 2D surface using minimal suggestive gestures and a very limited palette.
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