Abstract art is something that is essential to the growth of my own work. Pushing the boundaries of what paint can do creates an energy and power that I love so much.

Recent visits to the Jenny Saville exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery and Maggi Hambling's "Nightingale Night" at Pallant House Gallery have reinvigorated my passion for pure abstraction. In this piece, those bold sweeps of magenta and pink explode across the canvas, balanced by deeper purples and that brilliant turquoise at the base.

The contrast between the aggressive, gestural marks and the more delicate drips and splatters creates a sense of equilibrium—a push and pull of opposing forces that somehow work together. I've poured paint, dragged it across the surface, and let it behave in ways that feel almost out of my control, yet the composition finds its own balance.

This is where I explore colour relationships and mark-making without the constraint of representing anything specific. It's pure experimentation, abstraction.