Pictures of a pigment bench by a window: a heap of blue powder, four colours poured beside it, a pan pressed flat, six pans set in a compact, and a pressed pan cracked by a palette knife back into powder.
Brighton · loose and pressed colour
Lustermere Pigments
Every colour starts here: loose, ground fine, heaped on the bench at its own slope.
Colour on screen is illustrative. Rendered, not photographed.
01 · Poured
Each colour falls on its own
Saltdean, Sea Kale, Deckchair and Chalk Cliff, poured beside it until each finds its slope.
02 · Pressed
A slow squeeze, not a stamp
Loose colour is pressed into a steel pan until it holds. The top turns satin, with our mark in it.
03 · Set
Your palette, in your order
Pans set into a mirrored compact of four, six or nine. You choose every colour and where it sits.
04 · Loose again
Pressed is only powder held together
Press the knife into the middle and the cake gives way, half of it still pressed, half of it in the air.
