John
Riley (Copy After)
Early Life and Artistic Awakening The story of Other Names, a figure shrouded in intentional mystery, begins not with dates and places readily available, but with an ethos – a deliberate rejection of the conventional artist’s biography. Emerging onto the contemporary art scene in the …
A portrait built from John Riley (Copy After)'s own colours
Every 2 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.