This print embodies Wilhelmina Barns-Graham's exuberant embrace of strong colours. Quick Time was printed two years after the artist’s death, by her long-time collaborators at the Graal Press just outside Edinburgh. Robert Adam and Carol Roberston invited Barns-Graham to paint her distinctive brushstrokes and marks onto individual sheets of clear PVC. This enabled them to build each design layer by layer; what Robertson called ‘painting in slow motion.’ The startling quality of these colours is the result of a laborious process. Rather than using standard printing inks, they developed a system of bespoke paints mixed from finely ground pigments sourced from around the world.