ROY OSBORNE is an artist, educator, and writer on color. After publishing Lights and Pigments: Colour Principles for Artists, in 1980, he became one of Britain's leading color theorists, lecturing and teaching at over 200 art institutions worldwide. His other publications include Renaissance Colour Symbolism: Primary Sources and Books on Colour 1495-2025: History and Bibliography. In 2003 he was awarded the first Turner Medal of the Colour Group (Great Britain), and in 2019 was awarded the first Colour in Art, Design and Environment Medal of the International Colour Association (AIC CADE).
