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My painting practice is engaged with pictorial illusion through abstraction. I work with layering luminous coloured glazes to build up hard edged colour fields. Line and edge become an important means of exploring surface, space and movement. The primary focus of my work is to generate material and process based questions around what painting can be. This focus is to explore the variety of material states paint can embody. My works also generates a productive tension between two distinct histories of modernist abstraction: hard edged geometry that is counter posed with painterly gesture. In my paintings pictorial elements are formally constructed, collide against territories where the paint appears unselfconsciously and loosely applied. The paintings uncover more to the audience with longer viewing, as what initially appears to be an active and dynamic image is revealed a complex, layered and slowly constructed work.