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Paintings by the 85-year-old synaesthetic painter, Elizabeth Stewart-Jones, who sparked British research into the condition of seeing sounds in colour, will be on show at London’s Oriel Gallery (0171-483-1375) from Monday, 13 November to 8 December. Works will include The Thatcher Family, John and Norma Major (even some synaesthetes see the name in grey) and She coughed all through the Brahms.

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