Dyestuffs, pigments & paint technology – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:33:46 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Dyestuffs, pigments & paint technology – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 The Artists’ Colour Box https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/the-artists-colour-box/ Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=51913 Understand the stories behind the paints and pigments used by the great artists.

The front of each card outlines a pigment’s history – its discovery or invention, production and usage – with a swatch. The back features a notable work from the history of art that prominently features it. The 52 pigments have been carefully selected from across all cultures and eras and will demystify the extensive ranges of oil paints on offer today.

]]> The Secret Lives of Colour https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/the-secret-lives-of-colour/ Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=51919 ‘A mind-expanding tour of the world without leaving your paintbox. Every colour has a story, and here are some of the most alluring, alarming, and thought-provoking. Very hard painting the hallway magnolia after this inspiring primer’ SIMON GARFIELD

THE MODERN CLASSIC, NOW BOLDER, BRIGHTER AND WITH 25 NEW COLOURS.

The history of colour tells the vivid story of civilisation. From scarlet women to imperial purple, leaf green to the white paint that protected against the atom bomb, Picasso’s blue period to the pink Barbie claimed for feminism, The Secret Lives of Colour offers a bright thread throughout human history.

Kassia St Clair’s lifelong fascination with colours and where they come from (whether Van Goph’s chrome yellow sunflowers or Dorothy’s ruby slippers) takes us on an unforgettable journey through our past, present and future.

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