The Masters · Chromatic Profile

Alan
Sutherland

Early Life, Family and Training The story of Alan Sutherland begins in the heat of Bombay, India, where he was born in 1931. His presence in that distant land was brief, for he spent only the first three years of his life there. Shortly after …

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Alan Sutherland
The Palette Genome

A portrait built from Alan Sutherland's own colours

Every 6 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.

← Cool · Shadow Warm · Earth Gold · Light →

Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.

Four-Colour Decomposition
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The Chromatic Knot

Every painting, placed on the hue wheel

Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.

0° Red 90° Yellow 180° Cyan 270° Blue saturation →
Reading the Genome

The signature, in numbers