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Narrator: Hilma af Klint was born in Sweden, in 1862.

She was one of the first women to study at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm.

From a young age she was interested in science and religion.

Hilma wanted to learn more so she formed a group called The Five.

The Five looked at ways to create art that was inspired by spiritual ideas, as well as science.

They thought it was possible to paint things that they believed in.

Not just objects, people, or places we can see.

Hilma was one of the first people to produce abstract paintings.

Throughout her life Hilma created hundreds of paintings.

She used a wide variety of colours and featured spirals and religious symbols in her work.

Because af Klint's work was very different to other artists at the time it wasn't until the 1980s thatpeople realised how important it was.

Laura Hopkinson: Here's a colourful topic to explore, tertiary colours!

Tertiary colours are made by mixing primary colours and secondary colours together. Let's have a go.

You will need paper, primary colour paints, paintbrushes, a palette, old plate or something to mix on.

To start with I mix my primary colours to create secondary colours. Red and yellow make orange. Red and blue make purple. Yellow and blue make green.

The third set of colours the tertiary colours are made when we mix primary and secondary colours together.

There are six main tertiary tertiary colours.

You might look at a colour wheel like this. The tertiary colours are in between the primary and secondary colours.

Let's have a go at mixing them for ourselves. Mixing orange and yellow we get this lovely yellow-orange colour!

Now how about mixing purple and red, that's called red-purple. When we mix green and blue it makes a beautiful ocean colour, you might call this turquoise.

The other three are red-orange, blue-purple and yellow-green.

Have a go at mixing them for yourself. Then you can enjoy using all the tertiary colours in your paintings.