It’s early morning on the clifftops of the Côte d’Azur, and today, the coast is living up to its name. I’m standing at a roadside viewpoint on the Grande Corniche, and my gaze is fixed out to sea, trying to work out where the sea ends and the sky begins.
The horizon is a rainbow of blues. From pale duck-egg to bright turquoise through to deep aquamarine, it’s a blue symphony; a meditation on blue. I find myself thinking of the many artists who’ve been inspired by this coastline – from Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso to Yves Klein, who even patented his own colour, International Klein Blue, in 1960.