Introducing Jackson’s Pigment Stories Book
We’re thrilled to announce Pigment Stories, a book containing over sixty richly-illustrated pigment entries that bring the history of artists’ colour to life. A continuation of the social media short film series, these stories trace how pigments have shaped art, science, and culture, from earthy ochres used in prehistoric caves to the cutting-edge chemistry of modern colours. Introducing Jackson’s Pigment Stories Book Pigment Stories: The Story So Far In June 2023, Jackson’s published the first short film in the Pigment Stories series on social media. It began as a simple idea – we wished to share the histories behind the colours on artists’ palettes, past and present. This drew on research we had accumulated over years of speaking to artists about colour, and articles about pigments by Evie Hatch, Studio and Materials specialist at Jackson’s. Evie wrote her first feature on the Blog in 2019 while working in the Customer Services Team, a path that soon led her to writing for the Blog full-time and, later, to study History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art. When we began telling these stories on screen, the aim was to create a series that was both …
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