The spectrum series relates to quotes that different artists have said about individual colours of the spectrum, the quotes also relate to the language of art itself. A multilayered hand blending technique was used during the screen printing process of the 6 different coloured prints.

Spectrum yellow

‘there are painters who transform the sun into a yellow dot and those who transform a yellow dot into the sun’ 

Pablo Picasso quote about Vincent Van Gogh 

Spectrum Orange

‘orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow’ 

Quote Wassily Kandinsky

Spectrum Red

‘a thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful’ 

Quote Henri Matisse

Spectrum Lilac

‘roses are red violets are blue poor violet violated for a rhyme’ 

 Quote Derek Jarman

Spectrum Blue

‘blue colour is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight’ 

Quote John Ruskin

Spectrum Green 

‘they sell you thousands of greens, veronese green emerald green cadmium green any sort you like but that particular green never’ 

Quote Pablo Picasso