‘I’m really just high on life and beauty’: the woman who can see 100 million colours

As a kid, Concetta Antico was always a bit out of the box', but it took decades for her to discover just how differently she was seeing the world

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It would be easy to look at the vivid array of colour contained in the paintings of artist Concetta Antico and assume she is using artistic licence. The trunks of her eucalyptus trees are hued with violet and mauve; the yellow crest on her cockatoo has hints of green and blue; the hypercolour of a garden landscape looks almost psychedelic.

It's not just an affectation and it's not artistic licence," says Antico. I'm actually painting exactly what I see. If it's a pink flower and then all of a sudden you see a bit of lilac or blue, I actually saw that."