My sense of colour, explored through endless textile designs, is fundamentally derived from nature. As I walk through my garden, across the hills or along a shoreline at different times of the year, I am continually observing the colours of the landscape. Sometimes this is a conscious thought process, mentally noting the exact shades, proportions and combinations that I find pleasing; on other occasions 1 find myself instinctively using particular colours which I subsequently realise have been subconsciously absorbed from a specific scene. Digital photography allows colours to be both recorded and also analysed in detail, by pixellating the images. Photo editing software can then be used to extract the colours of choice from the image, and form 'paint swatches' to test colour combinations.
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