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Sandra Orme

Unison Colour Associate Artist

www.sandraorme.com

About:

Sandra Orme is an award winning artist and author based in the Buxton, Derbyshire. She has written a book ‘Painting Skies in Pastel’ with Search Press. Within the book she use the ’Sky’ set to produce a range of dramatic or subtle skies. Sandra is an experienced tutor and workshop leader and her clients include The Ashmolean Museum as well as Unison Colour Pastels.

Sandra is one of the North West’s leading pastel artists and workshop tutor, having developed innovative ways of working with pastels with exceptional and unusual results and becoming renowned for both her dramatic skies as well the sense of place conveyed by her work.

She explores the ever-changing landscape that surrounds her studio in the Peak District – the light, seasonal colours, atmosphere and weather – whilst capturing the relentlessly unchanging and seemingly timeless nature of the high edges and wild moors. She also travels widely through the UK capturing the weather and light in the more remote parts of our island.

Her work explores this dichotomy. She says ‘I want to capture passing moments and express a sense of place. I remain fascinated by the contrast between the unchanging and the ever changing – the weather and the land.’

She has won a national art competition, The Buxton Spa Prize, exhibited with the UK’s best pastel artists at The Pastel Society, Mall Galleries, London and teaches annually at University of Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum – a testament to both her beautiful pastel work and her expertise.

Blogs by Sandra Orme

Colour Chart Guidance

We believe the colours in our web based colour chart are a faithful representation of our pastel range. But with any colours portrayed on the internet, there’s a whole heap of variables which mean that what you see, may not be what we see. That said, there’s some things that can be done to mitigate some of the variance.

Mobile phone and tablet screens tend to be pretty good for colour, so they’re always worth using, when viewing our colour chart.

We hate to say it, but cheaper computer displays, including laptops, can be rather hit and miss, in both colour and contrast, so they might not reveal the depth of the colour, as well as the true tone.

If you’re really keen on getting your computer up to speed on colour representation, you can use a calibration device to reach your display's fullest potential.

With all that said, if you think we’re way off the mark with any of the colours then, by all means let us know, and we’ll give it another shot.