Liane Collot d'Herbois

* December 17, 1907 in Camelford, Cornwall, Great Britain
† September 17, 1999 in Driebergen, Netherlands

Liane Collot d'Herbois attended the Academy of Arts in Birmingham, where she encountered the writings of Rudolf Steiner. In 1927, she received her art teaching diploma and became a scholarship holder at the British Museum in London. As an employee of one of the first curative education homes in Clent, Stourbridge, her paintings caught the attention of Ita Wegman in 1928. In 1935, Wegman invited Collot d'Herbois to Arlesheim. There, the aim was to create healing paintings in the sense of therapeutically effective art. In this spirit, Collot d'Herbois researched light and darkness, color, and their application in painting and therapy. Drawing on Steiner's color theory, she sought to objectify color and connect art with healing. From 1940 onward, she developed an independent art therapy in collaboration with Wegman, Hilma Walter, and Margarethe Hauschka. After Ita Wegman's death, Collot d'Herbois settled in Holland. There she developed her glaze painting technique, founded the Magenta Group for art students, and published her workbook, Colour I/II.