Restricted Palettes is a four-part Saturday Family Workshop series that explores how colour behaves through limitation, relationship, and perception. Drawing from the practice of Tyeb Mehta, the series invites families to understand how minimal colour systems can create depth, tension, and emotional intensity.

In this first workshop, Colour Parallelism and Grayscale, participants will explore how colours interact when placed side by side and how their perception changes through contrast and value. Through guided exercises using grayscale and controlled colour arrangements, families will observe how colours can align, shift, or break apart depending on their surroundings. The session introduces the idea that colour is not fixed but relational, shaped by proximity, lightness, and spatial placement.

Participants will create a series of small studies that focus on colour parallelism, gradually building sensitivity to how subtle differences in value and arrangement can alter visual experience. This approach reflects Tyeb Mehta’s use of restricted palettes and sharp contrasts, where carefully structured colour relationships generate intensity, stillness, and emotional weight without relying on narrative.

Designed for children and adults to create together, the workshop encourages shared observation, experimentation, and collaborative learning, offering an engaging introduction to how colour can be understood through perception and interaction.                                                                                                                                                                                                         

While you’re here, explore KNMA’s ongoing exhibition

TYEB MEHTA Bearing Weight (with the lightness of being).