Liss Llewellyn is delighted to present Colour!: an online exhibition based around the theme of colour in Modern British Art.

2023 marks the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Sir Isaac Newton’s pioneering experiments with sunlight and prisms, which helped establish primary and secondary colours, and provided the scientific foundation for our visual spectrum. Through these experiments Newton first developed a theory of colour, based upon a wheel (also referred to as Newton’s Disc), and paved the way for his groundbreaking 1704 treatise, Opticks.

The notion of colour theory is of fascinating and enduring interest to many, and has fuelled some of the finest works of British Modernism. It is a subject which has stirred the imagination of various Modern British Artists, including Marlow Moss, Robert Arthur Wilson, and Jas Wood, among others, and whose work represents an important chapter in the history of colour theory.

We are thrilled to bring together a selection of works – both abstract and figurative – which explore this theme.