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 second workshop, Context in a Colour: Relativity and Multiplicity, participants will explore how a single colour can appear to change depending on its surroundings. Through guided collage-based exercises using multi-window formats, families will place and reposition colours to observe how one hue can look lighter or darker, warmer or cooler, and more or less intense based on context.

By working with a restricted palette, participants will understand that colour does not remain fixed but shifts through relationship and placement. This approach reflects Tyeb Mehta’s practice, where carefully structured colour interactions create visual tension and emotional depth without relying on detailed imagery.

Designed for children and adults to create together, the workshop encourages close observation, experimentation, and shared discovery, helping participants build a deeper understanding of how colour transforms through interaction.                                                                                                                                                                                               

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

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