Mary
Webb
Mary Webb: A Pioneer of Colour and Shropshire Landscape Mary Webb (1881-1927) stands as a singular figure in British literature and art—a novelist whose evocative prose captured the soul of Shropshire’s rural heartland alongside an artist who relentlessly pursued abstraction through vibrant squares and rectangles. …
A portrait built from Mary Webb's own colours
Every 1 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.
