My Current paintings are an inquiry into colour, light, form and illusory space, these paintings function as a series which inform each other creating an ongoing dialogue in ‘Chroma Sphere’, ‘Light Shift’, Light Chroma and ‘Chroma Scape’, which reference both Modernist abstraction and representational languages. Illusory space is explored through blended (oil gradient) colour shifts, form and light. This inquiry into colour and space set’s up a colour conversation within my paintings, informed by a number of colour references, such as signatures observed within nature phenomena, colour theory and abstract colour contrast. The physicality and materiality of colour within these paintings set up a spatial language, a visual tension between flatness, (opaque colour), illusory space, (transparent and gradient colour) and horizontality creating visual spatial horizons which move between abstraction and landscape horizons. These paintings explore the push & pull of the picture plane using oil blends seen in contrast to sprayed veils of colour and painted hard edged organic shapes.

I often use the format of the Renaissance ‘tondo’ and the repetition of the circular form, a form which has no beginning or end, therefore the viewer can never fully complete the image. This exploration of illusion, colour and light is further explored in their illuminated counterparts. The led light box works are digital reproductions of original painting encased in bespoke hand crafted light boxes. These illuminated portal worlds function as virtual photographic counterparts to the paintings, they reference the virtual screens of painting, colour luminosity and reproduction, which is especially relevant in a time when art works are increasingly viewed through the lens and the virtual platforms such Instagram and Artsy.