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Colours- Ochre 24 听May 2004
Ochre was the first coloured paint. It is on every inhabited continent and has been on the palette of almost every artist in history.

But it is perhaps the aboriginal people in Australia who have been painting with it for the longest - somewhere around 40,000 years. Victoria Finlay is the author of Colour听 and she took reporter Jennifer Chevalier to the basement of the Rebecca Hossack Gallery in London to look at the ochre used in aboriginal paintings.听

Colour - Travels Through the Paintbox
By Victoria FInlay
Published by Sceptre from 26 May


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