Relief Construction with two Ovals Painting

This work is a hybrid of painting and relief sculpture, formed from offcuts of wood arranged into a precise formal composition and painted on. process is important in my work, as each element is added in an intuitive way building on what is already in place, until an overall composition emerges. I wanted to try and translate some of the ideas used in my painting into three dimensions, and to experiment with found materials and the process of assemblage. The work is influenced by modernist abstraction and the work of artists such as Paul Klee, Louise Nevelson and Kurt Schwitters. The process of making the piece involves a careful consideration of the way that the forms and colours in the work relate to one another to create an overall sense of harmony or equilibrium.