Victoria Finlay is a British writer and journalist, known for her books on colour and jewels. Her most famous book is ''Colour: Travels Through The Paint Box''.

Career

Finlay, born in 1964, studied social anthropology at

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, Scotland, and the

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, Virginia, after which she joined

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.Palmer, M and Finlay, V. (2003) Faith in Conservation; New Approaches to Religions and the Environment, Washington DC, The World Bank, p157 From 1991 to 2003 Finlay worked in Hong Kong as a journalist. By the time of the handover in 1997, she was arts editor of the ''

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''. Finlay had become obsessed with colour as a child, when her father took her to

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and said that people were no longer able to make the blue in the stained glass. In 2000, she decided it was time to go and find out this and other secrets of colour, and ''Colour: Travels through the Paintbox'' was published in 2002. Finlay has also worked in radio presenting, and was the director of communications for the Alliance of Religions and Conservation.

Works

*''Colour: Travels Through The Paint Box'' published in North America as ''Color: A Natural History of the Palette'' (2002) *''Buried Treasure'' published in the United States as ''Jewels: A Secret History'' *Palmer, M and Finlay, V. (2003) ''Faith in Conservation; New Approaches to Religions and the Environment'', Washington DC, The World Bank *''Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World'' (2021)

References

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