Amber hour arrived in forty crates and left the store in the order the light falls: the clear blue studies first, the storms last. We hung Room 1 in a single morning and spent the next four days moving one picture at a time.
The wall colour
The rooms are painted a dark storm grey taken from the shadows of the Simon Denis study that opens the show. On a white wall the small oil sketches looked like postcards. On the grey they glow.