Royal Academy of Arts and Winsor & Newton have announced a 2017 collaboration that will aim to illuminate the materiality of paint and celebrate the mystery of this well-used medium.

The Royal Academy and Winsor & Newton have launched this partnership with a new short film (see below) featuring Christopher Le Brun, President of the RA, painting in his London studio and discussing the inspiration behind his work, the relationship between the artist and colour and the materiality of paint.

Within the film Christopher describes the relationship between paint, colour and light and defines watercolour as 'the finest medium we have to deploy colour that anyone has ever invented.'

This film is part of the 2017 collaboration between Winsor & Newton and the Royal Academy of Arts. For more information please visit www.winsornewton/royalacademy.

Christopher Le Brun is a painter, sculptor and printmaker, and was elected President of the Royal Academy in 2011, the 26th since Sir Joshua Reynolds. He has recently debuted new work in 2017, with exhibitions both internationally and in the UK.

This film precedes a second to be released later in the month, focussing on the history and heritage of paint. This will focus on a past Royal Academician, and one of the greatest British painting masters of all time, JMW Turner and sets to unravel the technical developments and examine the innovations of paint since Turner’s time. Both will reveal professional insights into the history and the myths of the medium as well as the inspiration behind Le Brun’s practice.