I like to use two or three key colours in my paintings. In addition to these colours, I often use a range of complimentary shades to help accentuate them even more. I wholeheartedly understand colour’s role in delivering impact and creating resonance; it has the power to provide a calming presence, but can equally fill a room with the most vibrant, vivacious energy.

Such effects are also supported through the application of paint—from blobs and splatters, I spread and drag paint across the canvas to create a web of controlled and fluid marks. My gesture is intuitive and intentional.

I enjoy working in all dimensions—from 200cm to 20cm. Large-scale paintings definitely make me feel the most free, but I equally enjoy the confines of painting on a smaller surface. The smaller scale prompts me to consider each individual stroke, which my design brain likes.

I don’t have a studio. I paint at home, either on the dining table, the wall or the floor. I like using a variety of different surfaces because they all provide alternative viewpoints.

My paintings are complete when I feel like there’s nothing else for me to add. I create my paintings in layers, which I add to over a few weeks. I often start with a paintbrush, but that’s soon replaced by palette knives and anything else I can get my hands on. I love the texture afforded by a mismatch of different instruments—soft, feather-like dabs of a paintbrush contrast beautifully with the regimented strokes of colour created by a knife’s edge.