Barbara
Balmer
Early Life, Family and Training Barbara Balmer was born in Birmingham on September 23, 1929. Her path as an artist began in earnest when she moved to the Coventry School of Art, where she studied from 1946 to 1951. This period provided the technical foundation …
A portrait built from Barbara Balmer's own colours
Every 13 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.