Cig Harvey

A book of deeply personal and lush photographs, drawings, and writing, Blue Violet is Cig Harvey's celebration of the natural world and the senses. Blue Violet is a vibrant meditation on the procession of seasons, sensory abundance, and the magic in everyday life. Part art book, botanical guide, historical encyclopedia, and poetry collection, Blue Violet is a compendium of beauty,...

Following her celebrated monograph Blue Violet, Harvey continues her personal study of sensory experience, focusing on the ephemeral nature of light, pigment, and vision. Her latest photographs are lush tableaux of her signature subjects: flora, cakes, domestic interiors, and the human figure in landscape, accompanied by prose vignettes on the science and art of colour, written in her vibrant, intimate...