My work begins with space and line – the space of the paper offering a broad field across which I draw out an initial structure. The piece unfolds slowly as colour and further structures are added over a period of time. Attention to detail and care taken during the making of each work achieves a balance: colour, luminescence and perceptual shift gradually coming together. The title ‘Colour Separation’ alludes to the separation of colour in photographic and printing processes. While my earlier photographic practice asked the camera, counter-intuitively, to respond to the non-visual, such as sound or smell, more recent work can be read partly as a meditation on aspects of optics and the photographic such as time, light, focus, refraction, transposing these concerns to the painted and the drawn, with an emphasis on touch and the hand.
Colour Separation (V) (ink, watercolour and graphite on paper, 2025) is the most recent and largest piece in this new body of work. It uses the full colour spectrum, extending the reach of progressively fading hues between a repeated pattern of dense black ink. The colours appear to float, co-existing but separate, refracting, mirroring and shifting in our perception, alternately fluctuating and cohering.