Where Will The Little Green Man Be Next? Painting

Since completing my BA in Fine Art Painting at the University of Brighton in 2018 I have moved my practice back to my home town of Manchester. In my practice, I explore interactions between matter, light, space and vision. With my paintings, I attempt to achieve a spatial recession through the layering of discrete applications of translucent interference acrylic paint. While typical pigment has a one-dimensional interaction with light, absorbing a majority of the spectrum and reflecting the colour that you see, interference ‘pigment’ is considered to have a three-dimensional interaction. When light strikes this paint, it is refracted, reflected and scattered. I consider these paintings as presenting the transition between the micro and macro. I find it fascinating how a thin matrix of titanium dioxide coated mica fragments, no thicker two microns and up to ninety microns in diameter, interacts with light to produce such a lustrous surface at the human scale. My most recent work has been inspired by the regular geometric patterns produced by the atomic structures of various compounds. Due to recent developments in microscopy we are now able to produce high resolution imagery of these structures in labs such as SuperSTEM in Daresbury.