| Based in: Basingstoke, South East England The starting point for my work comes from a desire to create a calm, contemplative space for the viewer. The paintings are never literal, with the intention that they will suggest a remembered experience. Landscape is often hinted at through the use of horizontal lines, either in banding of colours, scratched lines or ridges of paint. I use a repertoire of processes which include using thin veils of colour in a diluted glaze and using a print roller to create a repetition of motifs. I am particularly interested in reflected light within the landscape and on the surface of water. The processes that I use allow the colours to blur and dissolve, and allow me to create transparent layers of colour. I am interested in the play between chance and control. The paintings are usually painted quickly allowing chance incidents to occur.
I am interested in the work of several abstract painters in particular. Agnes Martin for the creation of contemplative space associated with a 'going into nature', Bridget Riley for creating the equivalent of the experience of sensation (particularly of shimmering light), and Callum Innes for the thinned veils of paint in his paintings which refer to light within landscape.
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