Sue Kennington Casino, 2024

One of the most important qualities of my work is to allow the viewer to imbue the looking experience with their own points of reference. My practice revolves around colour, and how colour can communicate atmosphere, light and provoke a reaction in the viewer, without them having any rational explanation as to why that should be. I have spent the last 20 odd years in a remote studio in central Italy, where I moved after my MA at Goldsmiths, exploring and investigating this. During my time here I have made an exhaustive library of colour samples, that has become essential to my practice. I then riff off this extremely rigorous mathematical discipline, (which encourages tiny variation in intervals of colour) and allow immediacy of touch and flow to be the work. The paintings spring from a harmony of super rational numbers-based colour intervals, and rapid, almost unconscious gesture. These extremes strangely bond easily and allow me to produce paintings that I believe are relevant to our times, embracing the difficulty of harmonizing human frailty and the numbers-based thinking that we are currently navigating.

My current work alludes to landscape, vague allusions to the space I inhabit, a semi abandoned wilderness - whilst remaining very undefined - plenty of room hopefully for the viewer to enter in and have their own personal dialogue with the painting.