In 2020 I found a book, first published in Japan in the 1930s and recently republished, of combinations of colours drawn from the art and design of that time. Sanzo Wada’s Dictionary of Colour Combinations includes hundreds of combinations of 2, 3 and 4 colours.

I started working my way through the colour combinations in the book, printing a single A5 sheet of watercolour paper quartered with the four colours. This gave me a limited amount of material to work with, keeping the scale of each piece roughly the same, but gave me an automatic way of introducing colour.

From 2021 until the end of 2023 I worked through the three-colour combinations, producing a single structure for each.

You can find the complete archive of 120 three-colour houses at the Paperholm archive on Tumblr.