In the language of colours
The minute you step onto the Lascaux premises, you immediately sense the artistic orientation, shaped by the company’s owner Barbara Diethelm. As a painter herself she speaks the language of artists, and their requirements are hers, too. And as a manufacturer of artist’s colours she is in constant dialogue with colour, its material structure as well as its formative dimensions.
Lascaux’s corporate philosophy is authentic, and drawn from life. Colour has always played a central role in Barbara Diethelm’s life, making her the ideal mediator between the planes of colour manufacture and colour application in aesthetic practice. Indeed she has forged a link between art and business through her conviction that colour brings an inexhaustible wealth to our lives and her commitment to develop and further promote that wealth.
Together with her husband Werner Schmidt, Barbara Diethelm established the „Fondation Lascaux“ precisely for the purpose of encouraging research into the impact of colours. The Foundation has set itself the goal of organising seminars and events aimed at examining the significance of colours on the way in which mind and spirit develop, and on human consciousness.