"master of colour" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone who is particularly good at working with color. For example, "John is a master of colour, so I always ask him to help me pick out paint for my walls."
Sternfeld is a modern master of colour photography.
The resulting 18-shoe confusion – technically known as a Crocalypse – needed a master of colour to manage it.
Barocci was a master of colour, especially gold, grey and rose, getting the chromatic key right every time.
Perhaps it was the frequency of these visual surprises that drew a modern master of colour photography, Joel Sternfeld, from his home in New York to Arizona in the late 1970s and 1980s.
In terms of abstract, Poussin – who was the great master of colour composition – comes closest in The Triumph of Pan from the National Gallery, a riot of blue dress and exposed flesh against the vertical lines of narrow trees.
While not a vintage year for the Arles photo festival, this small show uncovered the work of Léon Gimpel, an overlooked master of colour and staging who created a series of tableaux in 1915 showing a gang of Parisian street children acting out war scenes.
Seeing it, nobody would have suspected that Nykvist was to become one of the great masters of colour cinematography.
Ethan Levitas is a formalist at heart, and a master of muted colour.
Meisenberg recently finished his studies at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he was taught by a master of vivid colour, Peter Doig.
But Strauss, that master of orchestral colour, knew how to create nuance and effect by ingenious means.
At heart, Kander is a craftsman: he still mostly shoots on film and is a master of composition, colour and atmosphere.
