Category Archives: Colours
The Killing Fields
A story that inspired the writing of Jakob’s Colours. ‘In October 2011 I set off with my two young boys on a trip around South East Asia for a year. Though Jakob’s Colours is set during WWII, the following story … Continue reading
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In Search of Orange
The Rainbow Hunters: One Mother. Two Boys. A trip around the world in search of seven colours, the first pigments, made by the first colour men, raising money for the charity War Child as they go. Cremona, Italy As we … Continue reading
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In Search of Indigo
The Rainbow Hunters: One Mother. Two Boys. A trip around the world in search of seven colours, the first pigments, made by the first colour men, raising money for the charity War Child as they go. (South Carolina, USA) … Continue reading
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In Search of Blue
The Rainbow Hunters: One Mother. Two Boys. A trip around the world in search of seven colours, the first pigments, made by the first colour men, raising money for the charity War Child as they go. (The Ovalle Valley, … Continue reading
In Search of Red
The Rainbow Hunters: One Mother. Two Boys. A trip around the world in search of seven colours, the first pigments, made by the first colour men, raising money for the charity War Child as they go. Uluru, Australia It … Continue reading
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In Search of Violet
The Rainbow Hunters: One Mother. Two Boys. A trip around the world in search of seven colours, the first pigments, made by the first colour men, raising money for the charity War Child as they go. … Continue reading
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In Search of Green
The Rainbow Hunters: One Mother. Two Boys. A trip around the world in search of seven colours, the first pigments, made by the first colour men, raising money for the charity War Child as they go. (Guiyang Province, China) … Continue reading
The Downward Flight
The Great Wall of China (Matianyu) It is not the Great Wall itself, rising up from the low lands to the high that the boys will remember. The immenseness of it running along the ridge of blue hazed mountains. The … Continue reading
In Search of Yellow:
The Rainbow Hunters: One Mother. Two Boys. A trip around the world in search of seven colours, the first pigments, made by the first colour men, raising money for the charity War Child as they go. (Kashmir, India) At first … Continue reading
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To Begin at the End
(Cochin, India) He is there at the beginning of the day, on his hands and knees, marking out a giant square grid upon the dusty ground, on which he will begin his picture. Colours, made from rice flour, ground … Continue reading
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The Rainbow Hunters 