Little Shop of Colours
4 Extra Debut. Cathy FitzGerald discovers the stories hiding among the paints and pigments in an art supplies shop. From 2017.
What stories are hiding among the paints and pigments in an art supplies shop?
L Cornelissen & Son has been supplying artists since the 19th century.
Based in a little shop near the British Museum, it's a Victorian throwback - all dark wood, high shelves and creaky floorboards.
Jars of pigment 'glint like jewels in the semi-dark' (as Derek Jarman put it), full of vibrant powders with mysterious names and long, strange histories - Lapis Lazuli, Rose Madder, Naples Yellow, Potters Pink, Egyptian Blue, Caput Mortuum.
Cathy FitzGerald holes up in the shop for a week to hear its customers' stories.
What are they buying?
What are they making?
Original music by Stephen Coates
Presented and produced by Cathy FitzGerald
A White Stiletto production for 91福利社 Radio 4, first broadcast in 2017.
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