Making sense of synaesthesia through the arts

When Jane Mackay hears some words, she also sees them as colours. The artist tells Marjorie Brennan about the wonders of being able to paint music.

Jane Mackay is talking about one of her very first memories. “I must have been about two and a half and I remember the colour of a wood pigeon’s call in my grandparent’s garden. It was a sort of mauvy-purple.”