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 the series  ‘Chroma Shape’,  ‘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, shape and light, set’s up a colour conversation within my paintings, informed by a number of colour references, such as signatures observed within nature, atmospheric light, colour theory and modernist abstraction.

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. In the recent series ‘Chroma Shape ‘my 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, the forms take on a sculptural presence within the picture plane, creating a visual /spatial play contrasting illusions of form and ground.  

In previous works and my light-boxes, 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 photography and its influences on both Painters and photographers, who focus on the materiality of light, colour. luminosity and depth of field within image making.

The notion of reproduction and viewing the art work through the interface of the screen is especially relevant in a time when artists work is increasingly viewed through the lens and virtual platforms such Instagram and Artsy.

These light box works, play with this space of viewing and the luminosity of the back -lit image.