My work is informed by research into artists such as Bridget Riley, Henri Matisse, and the Futurist Giacomo Balla, who approached colour as a means to portray fleeting, unsolid qualities such as light, space, and movement. I work with oil on canvas, and with painted collage/cut-out techniques. Over the past eighteen months my work has progressed enormously from process-based black and white works, to the current more complex paintings which place emphasis on colour, surface and mass. Running concerns throughout the work are repetition and layering, the grid and related patterns, and an aim to depict believable space, in abstract terms.

I construct the images from layered net shapes, which accumulate as undulating pockets and ridges of light, shadow and silhouette, creating illusions of contour and depth. The projected shadows of the nets are translated into colour, as they are registered on top of preceding layers. It is these colour combinations and juxtapositions which give the current works varying attributes of lightness, bulk, density, space, or clutteredness.

I studied my Fine Art (painting) degree at Wimbledon School of Art, graduating in 2001, and received my Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art from Reading University in 2004. I am currently exhibiting in a mixed show at the Lacy Road Gallery in Putney, London. In September, I will be showing in a group exhibition 'The Plausibility of Shadow' at The Phoenix Gallery, Brighton.