@theobserveruk: Inside London’s most colourful shop L Cornelissen & Son has supplied raw pigments to artists and artisans for almost 170 years “What makes using raw pigments magical are two things,” says the shop’s owner of 50 years, Nicholas Walt, a genial, softly spoken man now 83. “You can make your own colours at considerably less cost than buying tubes. And then there’s the sheer pleasure of making colour.” Read more from the Observer New Review's new series In Real Life, home to observations and scenes from the world beyond your phone screen Video by Finn Blythe #London #LCornelissen