Colour in Context: Swimming Pool Blue

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It’s a strange irony that while water lacks a colour of its own, in the mind’s eye it takes on such resonance that its hues become powerful symbols. From the expansive and deep blue-green of the open ocean to the serene turquoise of the swimming pool, the range of blues associated with water can stir layers of buried emotions, memory and nostalgia that lie within us all. So it’s little wonder, then, that the colours and the images associated with them are so often a source of artistic…