But that's not going to stop Dr. James Fox from trying.
James is an art historian at the University of Cambridge, a curator, an award-winning broadcaster and the author of bestselling book The World According to Colour. He's joining us in The Garden to answer the most fascinating questions we could think to ask him about colour.
And we're starting with the big one: What is colour? James has described it as a “dance between subjects, objects, mind and matter”, that varies from person to person, and even from species to species. Join James for a scintillating exploration into how colour works and what it means, touching on science, art history, anthropology, literature and politics.
Read more"In many respects, colour's greatest challenge is - like music - it resists most attempts to describe it. Colour might be one of those subjects that simply can't be written about." But that's not going to stop Dr. James Fox from trying!
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