Throughout history, from the first

Throughout history, from the first handprints on the walls of caves, all artists have been intimately concerned with colour – with the arcane processes and sources of making different pigments, with colour’s layers of meaning and association, and with the relationship of colour to light. Like colour names derived from nature, such as leaf green, artist’s colours, such as viridian and vermilion, are also very evocative, not least because they are so exact.