Power Plant Print

There are loads of these electrical substations in UK housing estates. As a child, I was very aware of them, but as an adult I'm oblivious. They remind me of being a kid, playing outside and seeing a ball stuck between the railings - it makes me smile. It’s a nod to abstract theory, with three main colours: yellow and blue create green, but I didn't want to lose the white light. I uncluttered the centre to make it inviting, a contradiction to the yellow 'danger of death' signs. I faded the background and emphasised perspective to create depth (pulling leaves forward and adding acute angles to the railings). There is a trisection, the upper branches, the distant light and the close railings. I used yellow and blue to create and diffuse surface tension; the yellow, traverse, from the top left corner, two thirds down the right tree; the blue circles in the background of the top right branches, outwards, anticlockwise, then into the foreground to define the sub-station.