Gemma Tipton
speaker
50 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
Gemma Tipton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Perhaps you have the blues.
Are you seeing red?
Or in a black mood?
Green with envy?
Maybe you're viewing the world through rose-coloured spectacles.
One thing you can be sure of is that you're not seeing the same coloured world as anybody else.
Or even if you are, you'll never know for certain.
That's one of the saddest, but also the most magical things about colour.
You can only describe it in relation to itself.
So how can I ever hope to know if the lush and glowing green that is the lawn outside my window, or the stormy grey-blue of the sea from Dunleary Pier, the velvety red of a rose, or the delicate yellow of a new primrose, how can I know that they are the same green, blue, red and yellow that you are seeing?
If you've ever had one of those endless circular arguments about whether something is pink or mauve, red or orange, turquoise or green, perhaps one of the last remaining disputes of fact that can't be solved by Google or Wikipedia, then you'll know what I mean.
That's because colour isn't actually about fact.
It's about perception.
It's also all about the impossibility of ever sharing a complete communion with another person.
I live with my blues and you with yours, and we can't do very much about it.
What we can do is keep trying to describe and have a little hope and faith.
You can see it in the changing names of paint colours.
There's now cupcake, powder room, soft blush, Persian skies, Cape Cod, celestial, gossamer, Nordic breeze, film noir.
Descriptions are about what colour means to us.
There are tribal languages with no words for green, while in Irish we have gloss to describe natural greens and une for artificial, even if they happen to be the same colour.
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