Christopher
Wood
A Surrealist Vision of England: The Enigmatic Life of Christopher Wood Christopher Wood remains one of the most enigmatic and haunting figures of British Modernism, a painter whose brief but brilliant career left an indelible mark on the twentieth-century avant-garde. Born in 1901 in Knowsley, …
A portrait built from Christopher Wood's own colours
Every 11 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.
Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.
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.
The signature, in numbers
Where the colour came from
Up to 24 paintings representing the most frequent palette tones — each shown with its dominant colours.
