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Nature Marshall Audiobooks

The Luminous Secrets Beneath Every Palette: colour and craft on the arts shelf

1 audiobook reviewed

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Arts & Entertainment

Who is Nature Marshall?

Palette is a word that reaches well beyond the painter’s board, and the title Nature Marshall has chosen leans on that reach. The Luminous Secrets Beneath Every Palette promises something hidden under the surface of colour itself, a romantic proposition for a subject usually taught in terms of pigment, ratio and technique.

Our catalogue files the work under arts and entertainment, and that is all the guidance the shelf offers. Five hours is a considered length for a subject of this kind: enough to develop an argument about how colour behaves and why it moves people, without becoming the sort of exhaustive manual only a working artist would ever finish. The title sets a tone of wonder rather than instruction, and a listener should expect to be persuaded as much as taught.

Nature Marshall in audiobooks

Chip Newton narrates the five hours, and writing about colour carries an obvious difficulty in audio: everything being described is invisible to the listener. That puts unusual pressure on the prose and on the reading, which have to conjure what a printed page could simply reproduce alongside the text.

No listener scores have arrived yet, so the field is open and there is nothing to be swayed by in either direction. It is worth a try if you paint, or if you have ever wondered why one arrangement of colours settles the nerves and another sets them on edge. Have a look at what is listed underneath.