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Welcome to The Colour Group (Great Britain) |
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Our
next meeting is on Thursday
11 September 2008 An all day meeting in the Victoria Gallery & Museum, University of Liverpool The Victoria Building is currently undergoing a £7.5m conversion to house the University of Liverpool Art and Heritage collections See the
Meetings pages for
details of this and subsequent meetings Reports submitted by the
2007 Palmer Award
holders are here. |
Please support our patron members (use links and see logos below) Bentham Instruments Ltd Cambridge Research Systems ColorAcademy Colorview UK Ltd Department of Colour Chemistry Kodak European Research Lee Filters Ltd NCS Colour Centre Oil & Colour Chemists Association Philips Research Laboratories PPG Industries (UK) Ltd The Royal College of Art The Society of Dyers and Colourists The Tintometer Ltd Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating Links to Patron Member web pages can found in our Patron Members page |
| Alun Foster, Chief
Chemist of Winsor and Newton, described how madder
plants
were turned into the madder lake pigment. Members interested in costume appreciated Dr Foster's tie for its appropriate motif. |
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| Victoria Finlay,
author and traveller, fascinated the audience with tales of travel seeking out rare and exotic pigments across the World. She also revealed how she wrote her books on palettes and pigments |
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