John Newdigate creates the colours you remember, distantly, from your childhood: the deep acrid red, the ripening blue, the warm, aching green, the edible yellow. There are also the scenes you witnessed, lying on your stomach, watching the dramas of insects unfold, the houses sunken into the riverbank, the birds curled in the reeds. He is a colourist, specialising in the painting of hand-built, porcelain vessels through precise yet spontaneous mark-making. Newdigate works in collaboration with his partner, ceramic master Ian Garrett, whose forms’ taut bodies house Newdigate’s rich narratives. The artist has exhibited extensively at home and abroad. His work can be found in several significant South African collections, such as the Iziko Museums of South Africa (Cape Town), the South African Cultural History Museum (Cape Town), and public collections as well as private collections the world over.