The artists who came to be known as Fauvists (“Wild Beasts”) emphasised colour as a structural and expressive methods into art in the early twentieth century. Their impact was such that the world of art shifted on its axis: all subsequent movements were influenced, and the “look” of the man made environment changed irrevocably.

From architecture to fashion, from graphic design to table mats, in addition to the art appearing on the walls of galleries, museums and private homes, colour became king and the drab world of the past confined to the dustbin.

The sixties, with its explosions of colour and emancipation, began in 1905 in a small fishing village in the south of France, when Henri Matisse and Andre Derain threw caution and muddy greys to the wind and drew fire and freedom from their canvasses.